Noun - represents a person, place, thing or idea
e.g. dog, house, student, mother, democracy
Verb - shows action or state of being
e.g. laughing, jumped, ran, running, skipped
e.g. we are friends, this is my house
Adjective - describes a noun or pronoun
e.g. small, big, intelligent, caring
Adverb - modifies a verb
e.g. fast, high, quickly, slow
Pronoun - takes the place of a noun
e.g. he, she, it, they
Preposition - indicates place
e.g. under, over, beside
or, indicates time
e.g. on, in, since, for, before
Conjunction - joins two sentences together
e.g. and, but, so, or
Interjection - interrupts a sentence
e.g. Hey! Wait! Oh!
Watch the video below from Oxford Online English for more examples and explanations of the different parts of speech.
This guide was created/compiled by Amanda Wills and last updated by Claire Pienaar in 2021. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons BY NC SA 4.0 International License.