GRAMMAR 02: 01/27/12

Ouch! I broke my finger and turned red but early my mother put my finger on ice.

Wow! I see my friend with the famous singer Luis Miguel but quickly they move on the other table.

Grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech

VERB
NOUN
PRONOUN
ADJETIVE
ADVERB
PREPOSITION
CONJUNCTION
INTERJECTION

NOUN

John, Mary, boy, girl, children; Pasadena, classrooms, notebooks; freedom, intelligence; hope, anger, joy, etc.

PRONOUN

I,you,she,he,it,we,you,they, mine, me; you, yours; he, his, him; she, hers, her; it, its; we, ours, us; they, theirs, them, all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, many, neither, nobody, no one, none, one, others, some, somebody, someone, such, myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves, etc.

VERB

cry, have, do, make, jump, read, run, clean, buy, ask, dance, became, come, eat, drink, broke, drive, etc.

ADVERB

abroad, anywhere, downstairs, here,nowhere, out, outside, somewhere, there, underground, upstairs, carefully, correctly, eagerly, easily, fast, loudly, patiently, quickly, quietly, etc.

ADJECTIVE

tall, young, pretty, light, blue, new, white , magnificent, old-fashioned, plain, quaint, sparkling, ugliest, unsightly, wide-eyed, helpful, important, etc.

PREPOSITION

about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, between, beyond, beside, besides, by, down, during, except, from, for, in, inside, into, like, near, next, of, off, on, out, out of, outside, over, past, round, since, than, through, till, to, toward, towards, under, underneath, unless, until, upon, up, with, within, without, etc.

CONJUNCTION

and, or, nor, but, after, although, as, because, before, if, since, than, though, unless, until, when, where, while, etc.

INTERJECTION

Oh! Ah! Wow! Gosh! Golly! Gee! Ow! Ouch! Yikes! Holy moly! Yippee! Hooray! Boo!

EXAMPLES

Part of speech	Function	Words	Examples
Verb	action or state	(to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must	I work in a hospital
Noun	thing or person	pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John	This is my car.
Adjective	describes a noun	a/an, the, some, good, big, red, well, interesting	My house is big.
Adverb	describes a verb, adjective or adverb	quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really	When she is very happy, she laugh a lot.
Pronoun	replaces a noun	I, you, he, she,	She is beautiful.
Preposition	links a noun to another word	to, at, after, on, but	They went to mall on Monday.
Conjunction	joins clauses or sentences or words	and, but, when	I like dogs and cats.
Interjection	short exclamation or emotions, sometimes inserted into a sentence	oh!, ouch!, wow!	Ouch! my finger hurts a lot!