This document provides definitions and examples of different parts of speech in English language including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It explains what each part of speech is, provides types or kinds for some parts of speech, and gives examples of words that fall into each category. It also includes exercises asking students to identify parts of speech in sentences and an assignment for students to underline, circle, cross out or put symbols above words in sentences to identify their parts of speech.

2. Names of persons,
places, things, animals, ideas,
and actions.
Examples:
1. Wenie
2. Cavite
3. Honesty

3. Kinds of
1. Proper - a name used for an individua
person, place, or organization.
2. Common - noun denoting a class of
objects or a concept as opposed to
a particular individual.

4. Words that
replace a noun in a sentence.
Examples:
1. She
2. I
3. That

5. Kinds of
1. Personal
2. Compound Personal
3. Interrogative
4. Indefinite
5. Demonstrative

6. The students dance to the beat
of “Dancing Queen”.

7. The dean
delivers her
opening
remarks.

8. The professor
points
something on
the board.

9. Is a word used to
express an action,
condition, or a state
of being.

11. Tells what the subject
does
Physical
Mental
Example:
1. Kingkong stomps through the streets of New
York.
2. Everyone fears Kong.

12. Links its subject to a word in the
predicate.
Example:
Is, am, are, was, were,
been, being
King kong is a huge gorilla.

13. Activity
•What does
Charles do?

14. Is a word that
modifies a verb, an
adjective or another
adverb.

15. 1. Historians strongly believe that the
Chinese invented rockets.
2. Ancient warrior fired very powerful
rockets.

16. Patiently, loudly, carefully
Sometimes, daily, always
Inside, there, everywhere
Extremely,
nearly,
almost

17. During the California gold rush, a
tailor named Levi Strauss saw miners
daily. Their pants were often
extremely worn. Strauss worked very
carefully to fashion stiff canvas into
overalls. These tough pants ultimately
became today’s blue jeans.

18. sad beautiful smart
selfish loud
persistent heavy fresh

19. Adjectives
Words that describe or
modify nouns or
pronouns

20. a tiny mouse in the small hole
a young boy sitting on a large
bench
a big house for the rich kids
the silly child with a cute dog
a delicious meal on a bright
day

21. ACTIVITY
Ask one student from the
class to name 5 adjectives
which describe Ms. Wennie
Canay.

22. Conjunction

23. Conjunction - is a word that connects
sentences, clauses or words.

24. Some examples of conjunctions:
For
And
Nor
But
Or Yet
So

25. Examples:
 John sang and Mary danced.
 I’m not going, nor is Joan.
 John was there but Peter was not.
 Hurry or you’ll be late.

26. Exercises: Put conjunction to complete the
sentences.
1.) A mother ____ child.
2.) He is neither an officer _____ a gentleman.
3.) You'd better leave ____ you'll be late.
and
nor
or

27. Preposition
- Is a word or group of
words used to express the
relationship between a
noun or pronoun and
some other words in the
sentence.

28. Types of Preposition
1. Place or Position
about , above, after, between, in,
beyond
2. Time
at, around, by, during

29. 3. Direction
Across, around, at, down
4. Others
according to, beside,
as far, due to, in
addition to

30. INTERJECTIONS
An interjection is a word that
expresses feeling or emotion and
functions independently of a sentence.
Interjections can express a variety of
feelings, such as joy, fear, anger,
surprise, exhaustion, dismay, or
sorrow.

31. EXAMPLES
Some common
Interjections
• Ah
• Aha
• Alas
• Dear
• Goodness
• Gracious
• Hey
• Hurray
• Oh
• Ouch
• Psst
• Tsk
• Well
• Whew
• Wow

32. Assessment
1. I bought a beautiful dress at the mall.
2. What did she ask you to do?
3. I left my shoes under the table.
4. If we finish our work quickly, we can go to the movies.
5. On Saturdays, I work from nine to five.
6. I want to go to a university in the United States.
7. Geez, you should have told me!
8. Which do you prefer, apple or orange?
9. After lunch, let’s go out for coffee.
10. Yikes, I’m late for class!
11. Bruno’s shabby thesaurus tumbled out of my bag.
12. What was I thinking of?
13. Frankenstein is the name of the scientist.
14. Everyone in the room cheered for him.
15. Judy and Anna want a snack.
16. The dog jumped out of the fence.
17. The rock was placed on the table.
18. The sun was shining as we set out for our first winter camping trip.
19. Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.
20. The census taker knocked loudly on all the doors but nobody was home.

33. ASSIGNMENT
Identify the parts of speech in each sentence. Underline once the nouns, twice
the pronouns, cross-out the verbs, encircle the adverbs, box the prepositions,
put star above adjectives, heart above conjunctions and exclamation point
above interjections.
1. You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect
to be successful at something.
2.We left for the mountain just before six in the
morning.
3.We first went to the store to buy a few things.
4. We had a breakfast at a café near the rail station.
5. My friend wasn't strong enough to lift his heavy
rucksack.