This document defines and provides examples of the eight parts of speech in English: noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. It states that parts of speech are categories of words based on their functions in sentences. Nouns name people, places or things, pronouns take the place of nouns, adjectives describe nouns, verbs show actions or states of being, adverbs modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, prepositions show relationships between nouns or pronouns, conjunctions join sentences or words, and interjections express emotions. Examples are provided for each part of speech.

1. PARTS OF SPEECH Instructor:
Muhammad Saleem
When we speak different kinds of
words come out of tongue, we put these
words in sentence according to their
use. These parts are called parts of
speech.

2.  Parts of speech are the basic categories of words
according to their function in a sentence. It is a
category to which a word is assigned in accordance
with its syntactic functions. Or
 Words are divided into different kinds or classes,
called Parts of Speech, according to their use; that is,
according to the work they do in a sentence.

3.  The parts of speech are eight in
number:
1. Noun. 2. Adjective. 3. Pronoun. 4.
Verb.
5. Adverb.6. Preposition. 7.
Conjunction.8. Interjection.

4. Noun

 A Noun is a word used as the name of a person, place, or thing. The word thing includes
all objects that we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell and something that we can think of,
but cannot perceive by the senses. Or
 A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
 Examples
 People; farmer, mechanic, father, Professor Haskins, editors, Marcia
 Places; ocean, Canada, porch, Spain, classroom
 Things; scissors, giraffe, pen, smiles, tugboat, skateboard, braces, drill

5.  2. Adjective
 The word used to add something in the meaning of noun is called adjective. Or
 The word used with a noun to describe or point out, the person, animal, place or thing
 which the noun names, or to tell the number or quantity, is called an Adjective.
 Examples
 The lazy boy was punished.
 The boy is lazy.
 Kolkata is a large city.
 He is an honest man.

6.  3. Pronoun
 A pronoun is a word that refers to or takes the place of a noun. OR
 A word that is thus used instead of a noun is called a Pronoun {Pronoun means for-
a noun.] A Pronoun is a word used instead of a Noun.
 Examples
 I am young.
 We are young.
 You are young.
 They are young.
 He (she, it) is young.
 I, we, you, he, (she, it), they are called Personal Pronouns because they stand for
the three persons.

7.  4. Verb
 A Verb is a word used to tell or assert something about some person or thing.
 A Verb is a word that tells or asserts something about a person or thing. Verb comes
 from the Latin verbum, a word. It is so called because it is the most important word in a
 sentence.
 A Verb may tell us-
 (1) What a person or thing does; as,
 Hari laughs.
 The clock strikes.
 (2) What is done to a person or thing; as,
 Hari is scolded.
 The window is broken.

8.  . Adverbs
 A word that modifies the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another Adverb is called an
 Adverb. The words quickly, very, and quite are, therefore, Adverbs.
 Def.- An Adverb is a word which modifies the meaning of a Verb, an Adjective or
 another Adverb.
 Examples
 She was sitting close beside him.
 At what hour is the sun right above us?
 Have you read all through this book?
 She was dressed all in white.
 He paid his debts down to the last penny.

9.  6.THE PREPOSITION
 Def.- A Preposition is a word placed before a noun or a pronoun to show in what
relation
 the person or thing denoted by it stands in regard to something else.
 [The word Preposition means 'that which is placed before'.]
 1. There is a cow in the field.
 2. He is fond of tea.
 3. The cat jumped of the chair.

10.  7.THE CONJUNCTION
 Def: - A Conjunction is a word which merely joins together sentences, and sometimes
 words. Conjunctions join together sentences and often make them more compact; thus
 Balu and Vithal, are good bowlers’ is a short way of saying
 'Balu is a good bowler and Vithal is a good bowler’. So, the man is poor but honest is a
 contracted way of saying.
 'The man is poor but he is honest.
 Sometimes, however the conjunction and joins words only as,
 Two and two make four.
 Hari and Rama are brothers.

11.  8.THE INTERJECTION
 Def: - An Interjection is a word which expresses some sudden feeling or emotion.
 Interjections may express-
 (1) Joy; as, Hurrah! Huzza!
 (2) Grief; as, alas!
 (3) Surprise; as, ha! What!
 (4) Approval; as, bravo!


12.  Thank you