8 Parts of speech with Examples PDF | Detailed Lesson

What are the 8 parts of speech? Parts of speech are a very important part of English grammar. For an ESL student learning parts of speech is a must thing to do. It will help in building the initial concepts. It is the building block of English grammar.

Here is the quick list of 8 Parts of Speech:

Noun
Pronoun
Adjective
Adverb
Conjunction
Verb
Interjection
Preposition

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Parts of speech with Examples

Noun

“It is the name of a certain place, thing, or a person. Like Daniel, English or a lion, etc.”

There are further two major types of nouns Common nouns and Proper nouns.

Common noun: The name of a commonplace, non-specific person or a thing is known as a common noun like chair, book, city, etc.
Proper noun: The name of a special place, person, or thing is known as a proper noun like Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Lahore, etc.

For Example, An old woman brought me a very long dress from a tailor, and then she quickly disappeared.

Here is the examples list of nouns:

Beard	Ice	Raincoat
Boy	Iron	River
Australia	Honey	Potato
Beach	Hydrogen	Rainbow
Advertisement	Grass	Parrot
Afternoon	Greece	Pencil
Belgium	Insurance	Restaurant
Branch	Island	Rocket
Banana	Hospital	Quill
Apple	Helmet	Plastic
Actor	Gold	Painting
Airport	Guitar	Piano
Ambulance	Hair	Pillow
Balloon	Horse	Queen
Answer	Helicopter	Planet
Bed	Insect	Refrigerator
Battery	House	Rain
Army	Holiday	Portugal
Breakfast	Jackal	Room
Animal	Hamburger	Pizza

Pronoun

“A word that is used at the place of a noun is known as a pronoun such as he, she and it, etc”

Basically, the pronoun is a word that is usually substituted for a noun. Pronouns are further defined by their type such as

A personal pronoun refers to a specific person or a thing he, she, it, etc. Parts of speech
Reflexive pronouns are used to emphasise another noun or a pronoun myself, himself, etc.
Possessive pronouns indicate ownership of his, her, its, etc.

For Example, An old woman brought me a very long dress from a tailor, and then she quickly disappeared.

Here is the Examples List of Pronouns:

whomsoever	whose	everything
you	whichsoever	your
he	where	nobody
whom so	this	thee
somewhat	whatever	wherein
whereof	any	ourself
whosever	them	whosoever
wherefrom	him	yourselves
its	theirself	naught
something	such	both
somebody	enough	mine
I	herself	neither
everyone	whatnot	anybody
whom	several	our
one	there	it
whosesoever	themselves	anyone
wherever	no one	whomever
whereto	whether	itself
that	some	nothing

Adjective

“A word which qualifies or modifies a noun or pronoun is known as an adjective such as sweet, pretty, hot, etc.”

It can also specify the size, quality, and a number of things.

For Example, An old woman brought me a very long dress from a tailor, and then she quickly disappeared.

Here is the Examples List of Adjectives:

capricious	unable	talented
womanly	elfin	decorous
well-to-do	bland	quack
kind	nebulous	light
hot	abject	harsh
screeching	curved	wise
tan	disgusted	absent
savory	deep	nonsensical
vengeful	gleaming	brave
exasperated	tame	parsimonious
humdrum	glossy	telling
meaty	holistic	gray
adventurous	prickly	medical
ablaze	square	longing
lonely	smooth	wistful
utter	limping	goofy
adamant	lowly	windy
brash	breezy	acrid
keen	loutish	chivalrous

Adverb

“It describes or modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb, but never a noun such as gently, quickly, etc.”

They are usually used to answer the question of when, where, how. They usually end with the word –ly.

For Example, An old woman brought me a very long dress from a tailor, and then she quickly disappeared.

Here is the Examples List of Adverbs:

Shyly	Tensely	Violently
Generously	Gently	Gladly
Rapidly	Rudely	Selfishly
Calmly	Carefully	Cautiously
Eagerly	Easily	Elegantly
Madly	Politely	Poorly
Badly	Blindly	Carelessly
Beautifully	Boldly	Bravely
Faithfully	Frankly	Honestly
Joyously	Kindly	Neatly
Inadequately	Justly	Lazily
Perfectly	Powerfully	Anxiously
Well	Angrily	Awkwardly
Promptly	Quickly	Quietly
Cheerfully	Equally	Frantically
Obediently	Openly	Patiently

Conjunction

“Conjunctions joins words, clauses or phrases and indicates the relationship between them, such as but, or so, yet are conjunctions.”

For Example, An old woman brought me a very long dress from a tailor, and then she quickly disappeared.

Here is the Examples List of Conjunction:

until	how	since
just as	where	wherever
before	why	so that
as soon as	as far as	as though
by the time	in as much as	inasmuch
supposing	when	or not
since	because	whose
provided	provide that	if
as if	as long as	as much as
in order to	in order that	in case
lest	though	now that
whereas	where if	whether
even if	even	even though
than	till	whenever
whoever	unless	while
if then	if when	if only
now since	now when	now

Verb

“A verb expresses the action of being, doing, or having.”

There is a main verb in a sentence and sometimes one or more helping verbs. Such as ( she can sing. Here sing is the main verb and can be a helping verb)

For Example, An old woman brought me a very long dress from a tailor, and then she quickly disappeared.

Here is the Examples List of Verbs:

Turn off	Turn on	Wait
Read	Ride	Sew
Talk	Think	Throw away
Climb	Close	Cook
Crawl	Cry	Cut
Ski	Sleep	Smell
Knit	Laugh	Listen
Bow	Buy	Clap
Dance	Dig	Dive
Dream	Drink	Eat
Shake	Sing	Sit down
Hug	Jump	Kiss
Wash	Watch TV	Win
Snore	Stack	Stand up
Open	Paint	Play
Fight	Fly	Give

Interjection

“Interjections are the words used to express emotions such as Oo! Woo! Etc.”

It is often followed by the sign of exclamation.

Examples:

Oh my!
Hurrah! We won the match.

Here is the Examples List of Interjections:

bah	Basta	bastard
aargh	ach	a-choo
adieu	adios	affirmative
avast	avaunt	aw
aaargh	aagh	aah
ah	a-ha	ahem
ahh	alas	alleluia
batter up	begorrah	bejaysus
aoogah	ar	areet
ay	aye	bacaw
aloha	amen	aooga

Preposition

“A preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to form a phrase modifying another word in the sentence such as by, with, on, etc”

Examples:

The book is on the table.

He wrote a letter with the blue pen.

Here is the Examples List of Prepositions:

Forward of	From	In
Among	Apart from	Astride
Close to	Far	Far from
Around	At	Before
By	Circa	During
Into	Minus	Near
Below	Beneath	Beside
Aboard	Above	Across
About	After	Ago
Following	For	From
Gone	In	On
At	Atop	Behind
Until/till	Up to	Up until
In between	In front of	Inside
Between	Beyond	By
Against	Alongside	Amid
Past	Prior to	Since

You may like to read All tenses in English.

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What are the 12 Parts of Speech?

Most of us believe that there are more than eight parts of speech, but keep in mind that in actuality there are only 8 parts of speech that are enough to explain and under the complete concept of English.

But some of us believe or think that they may be more than 8, yes there are more than 8, some say 9, and some 12. So let me give you the list of twelves.

Here are some commonly listed eleven parts of Speech: