The Eight Parts of Speech

These are the words that you use to make a sentence. There are only 8 types of words - and the most important is the verb!

• Verbs: action words (be, have, do, work, love, sing)
  
• Nouns: a person, place or thing (man, town, music, happiness, monkey)
  
• Adjectives: tell us more about nouns and pronouns (a/an, the, 69, big, blue, clever, interesting)
  
• Adverbs: tell us more about a verb, adjective or another adverb (loudly, quickly, well, often)
  
• Pronouns: take the place of a noun (you, she, him, her, myself, ours, some)
  
• Prepositions: a "noun" follows a preposition. It is never followed by a verb (at, in, on, under, over, from)
  
• Conjunctions: joins two parts of a sentence (and, but, though, while, yet)
• Interjections: have no real grammatical value (ah, dear, er, hi, oh, um, well)

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