This short presentation will discuss in brief the eight parts of speech in English language. Useful for students who want to have an overall review of Parts of Speech.

1. Parts of Speech

2. Nouns
• Common nouns: chair, flower, cat
• Proper nouns: India, France, Meera
• Countable nouns: building, apple,
boy
• Uncountable nouns: air, water,
information
• Collective nouns: family, herd, bunch
• Abstract nouns: happiness, sadness,
love, warmth

3. Cases of Nouns
Subject case
The boy is sitting.
Object case
The teacher scolded the boy.
Possessive case
The boy’s parents are here.

4. I. Spot the nouns in the following sentences and state what kind they are:
1. On Saturday, we raked the leaves into a large pile in the yard.
2. How many times have I asked you to not chase the cat around
the house?
3. This pen has completely run out of ink, but I am not done filling
out the form.
4. Did Jeremy pick up all the dirty dishes from the table in the
kitchen?
5. Love and kindness are important for the world to be a happy
place.
6. The family is not going to be happy to hear this news.

5. Articles
• Indefinite articles: A, An
• The first sound of a word determines
the use of a and an
• A/An – only before singular common
and singular collective nouns
• Definite article: The can come before
singular and plural nouns
• The – specific reference
• The can also come before proper
nouns

6. Fill in the blanks with a or an where necessary
1. I like _____ apples. I eat ________ apple every day.
2. I like to listen to ________ music. Can I play _____ song for
you?
3. My sister works for _______ insurance company in Hyderabad.
4. They have ________ problem but it can be resolved with
_______ patience.
5. I like your ______ suggestion. It’s _____ very interesting idea.
6. I like ______ volleyball. It is _____ popular sport in _____ India.
7. It was not my _______ fault. It was _________ accident.
8. Excuse me, can I ask you _______ question. Sure, but don’t
expect ______ answer!
9. On many _________ days, I wake up late.
10. A vegetarian is a person who doesn’t eat _____ meat.

7. Fill in the blanks with a/an or the:
1. Yesterday I bought ____ newspaper and ____ old
magazine. ____ newspaper is in my bag, but where did I
put ____ magazine?
2. I witnessed _____ accident this morning. ____ car crashed
into _____ tree. ____ driver of _____ car wasn’t injured,
but _____ car was badly damaged.
3. Who is _____ owner of ____ blue car parked outside your
house?
4. “Can you recommend ____ good and cheap restaurant?”
“You should try ______ Flame Grill. It is ____ very good
restaurant. In fact, some people would say it is _____ best
restaurant in ______ whole city.
5. I am going away for ______ week. For _____ entire week,
my phone will be switched off.
6. ____ Himalayas are ____ longest mountain range in _____
world.
7. Could you close _____ door please? There is ____ beehive
outside, and I’m afraid the bees might get in.

8. “a” or “an”
Use a/an
• When the noun is singular
• When the noun is countable
A class of students is here. A boy is standing
outside.
Do NOT use a/an
Before proper nouns
Before abstract nouns
Before plurals

9. When using a/an
• Go by the sound of the word just after the
article:
• An apple.
• A red apple.
• An old, red apple.
• A big, old, red apple.

10. Using the
• In case of a plural noun, consider whether it is a
particular set or a general one.
Apples are good for health.
The apples you bought yesterday are good.
• In case of proper nouns:
Use “the” before names of rivers, seas, oceans,
mountain ranges, deserts, forests, gulfs
Use “the” before designations, but not before
names of people.

11. Adjectives
Describe nouns and pronouns
What kind?
How much/How many?
Which one?
• Common adjectives: yellow, pretty, sad
• Proper adjectives: Italian, Indian, American
• Compound adjectives: far-off, teenage, bygone
• Indefinite adjectives: some, many, several

12. Order of Adjectives

13. Correct the order of adjectives in the following
sentences.
1. We used to own a German red big car.
2. The Joneses bought that black tin big shed
and converted it into a ping pong nice room.
3. Please put the yellow pretty new flowers in
the old pottery Chinese vase.
4. I want some plastic drinking green glasses for
the party.
5. The necklace was silver, antique, Egyptian.

14. Pronouns
Personal Pronoun
in Subject position
Personal Pronoun
in Object position
Possessive
Pronoun
I (I am going) me (Saina told me) my, mine (This is
mine)
you (You are going) you (I will tell you) your, yours (This is
yours)
he (He is going) him ( I told him) his (this is his)
she (She is going) her (I told her) her, hers (that is
hers)
it (It is going) it (I broke it) its (Its tail is
wagging)
they (They are
going)
them (I told them) their, theirs (that is
theirs)
we (We are going) us (She told us) our, ours (that is
ours)

15. Verbs
Action
Linking
Auxiliary (Helping)

16. Action Verbs
• Actions verbs can be transitive or
intransitive
• Transitive verbs need a direct object
Meera likes ice-cream.
She gave me a gift.
• Intransitive verbs do not need a direct
object
He called.
The baby slept.

17. Linking Verbs
• Join the subject and the predicate
• Do NOT express action
• Link additional information about subject to
the subject
• Check by replacing the verb by am, are or is
He is going for a walk.
The kids look excited.

18. Helping Verbs
Helping verbs = Auxiliary verbs
• Help to make the meaning of another
verb clearer
• All forms of be
• All forms of have
• All forms of do
• Modal Verbs

19. Adverbs
Answers questions like When? How? Where? To what
extent?
• With verbs: went quickly, walked slowly, deeply
hated, arrived late
• With adjectives: a very fast car, really wonderful
class, almost gigantic iceberg
• Conjunctive adverbs: accordingly, therefore,
hence, finally

20. Phrases
• Noun Phrase: a good boy
• Verb phrase: has finished
• Adjectival phrase: bright red
• Prepositional phrase: under the wall

21. Conjunctions
1. Coordinating conjunctions
and, but, for, or, nor, yet, so
2. Correlative conjunctions
both…and, either…or, neither…nor, not
only…but also
3. Subordinating conjunctions
although, because, since, after, before, if,
unless

22. Interjections
• Express a feeling or emotion
• Usually marked by an exclamation
mark
!
hey, hurrah, wow, ugh, darn, ouch,
oh, ha, gee

23. Preposition
• Preposition = pre-position
• Normally placed before a noun/pronoun
• Links noun/pronoun to another word in the
sentence
• The noun/pronoun following a preposition
is called the object of the preposition
above, under, in, out, of, except, toward, with,
from