Parts of speech
Types
of Parts of Speech:
In
short, there are eight different types of parts of speech is there, and
those are:
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Verb
- Adverb
- Adjective
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Determiner
Noun
A noun is specified as the name of a person,
place, or thing. There are five kinds of nouns:
1. Proper Noun
2. Common Noun
3. Material Noun
4. Abstract Noun
5. Collective Noun
Proper Noun:
A proper noun is the name of a particular place or person. For
example, Dubai is the richest city, here Dubai refers to the name
of a place so it is a proper noun.
Common Noun:
A common noun is specified as the name given in common to every person
or thing. For example, The girl in my class.
Material Noun:
A material noun denotes the matter of the substance of the thing. For
example, the house is built of wood.
Abstract Noun:
It is the name of a quality, action, or state belonging to an
object. For example, Darkness, movement, music,
philosophy.
Collective Noun:
A collective noun is the name of a group of the collection of persons or
things are taken together. For example, army, group,
team, class, crowd.
Pronoun
Pronouns
are classified into ten types:
1. Personal pronoun
2. Impersonal pronoun
3. Demonstrative pronoun
4. Distributive Pronoun
5. Indefinite pronoun
6. Reciprocal pronoun
7. Reflexive and Emphatic pronoun
8. Relative pronoun
9. Interrogative pronoun
10. Possessive pronoun
Personal Pronoun:
It indicates any person while acting as a subject or an object. For
example, I, we, they, you, he, she, him, her, ours.
Impersonal Pronoun:
It indicates mainly non-living things. For example, it.
Demonstrative Pronoun:
It demonstrates any particular sense. For example,
this, that, these, those, it, so, such.
Distributive Pronoun:
It distributes the sense of the subject or object. For
example, each, every, either, neither.
Indefinite Pronoun:
It signifies the sense of the subject or object. For
example, any, all, many, some, few, someone, anyone, none,
anybody, nobody, everybody.
Reciprocal Pronoun:
It reciprocates between two or among more than two subjects and makes a
complementary sense. For example, each other, one
another.
Reflexive and Emphatic
Pronoun:
It makes an extra emphasis on the main subject and is constructed with s
‘self’ word. For example, myself, herself, himself,
themselves, yourself.
Relative Pronoun:
It relates the subject or object with another clause or part of the
sentence. For example, who, which, what, that,
whose, whom, anyone, none, anybody.
Interrogative pronoun:
It makes the sense of interrogation. For example, who,
which, what, whom, whose.
Possessive pronoun:
It signifies a possession over any other person. For
example, mine, ours, yours, his, its, theirs.
Verb
A
verb is a word that states action, position, or being.
There
are seven types of verbs:
1. Finite verb
2. Principal verb
3. Transitive verb
4. Intransitive verb
5. Auxiliary verb
6. Non-Finite verb
7. Infinite verb
Finite Verb
These types of verbs are restricted to the number and also to the
persons. For example, I am a
good boy.
Principal Verb
Principle verbs are the main verb of a sentence, it carries the sense,
action, or state of a sentence. For example, I played football
yesterday. In this sentence "Play" sate an action that I performed
yesterday.
Transitive Verb
These types of verbs are often used alone, with one or more objects in a
sentence. For example, Ram played cricket.
Intransitive Verb
These types of verbs do not allow with a direct object, which means you
can not use this type of verb where an object is clearly mentioned. An example of
this type of verb is 'River flows'
Auxiliary Verb
These types of verbs are used to form tense, mood, aspect, modality,
voice, etc. For example, Ram taking a shower.
Non-Finite Verb
By its name, we can say these type of verb is not finite, which means
these types of verbs is not show their tense.
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Adverb
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
in a sentence. These are 9 kinds of an adverb.
1. Adverb of time (Before,
ago, lately, yet, soon, yesterday)
2. Adverb of Manner (Slowly,
so, soundly)
3. Adverb of Place (Everywhere,
down, near, away, etc.)
4. Adverb of frequency (Once,
seldom, rarely, usually)
5. Adverb of affirmation and negation (Certainly,
apparently, undoubtedly)
6. Interrogative Adverb (Where,
when, how, why, how often, how long)
7. Relative Adverb (When,
why, how)
8. Adverb of degree (Almost,
fully, very, enough, rather, really)
9. Adverb of a sentence (Surely,
luckily)
Adjective
An adjective is a word that qualifies a pronoun or a noun. There
are eight kinds of adjectives.
1. Proper adjective (Asian,
Chinese, American, Japanese, African)
2. Adjective of quality (Good,
bad, rich, poor, wise, great, hot, cold, warm)
3. Numerical adjective (One,
two, five, several, each, every, few, a few, fourth, very few, many)
4. Adjective of quantity (All,
any, much, some, half, full, whole, enough)
5. Demonstrative adjective (This,
that, these, those, such)
6. Distributive adjective (Each,
every, either, neither)
7. Interrogative adjective (Which,
what, whose)
8. Possessive adjective (my,
our, his, her)
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Prepositions
Prepositions
are six types, those are:
1. Preposition of Time (At, in, on, by, of,
from, away, since, for, towards)
2. Preposition of Place (At, from, within,
without, inside, outside, in front of, on top of, beyond, between)
3. Preposition of Possession (By, of, with)
4. Prepositions of direction motion (To, at,
from, round, across, against)
5. Prepositions of cause, reason, and
purpose (Of, for, with)
6. Preposition of Agent, Manner, or
Method (In, on, for, by with, though)
Conjunction
There
are three types of conjunction,
1. Coordinating conjunction
2. Subordinating Conjunction
3. Correlative conjunction
Coordinating Conjunction
These types of conjunction join two sentences or clauses of the same
kinds, i.e. but, like, although, even though, despite, in spite of, etc.
Subordinating Conjunction
These types of conjunction are used with subordinate clauses, i.e. because,
lest, if, etc.
Correlative Conjunction
These types of conjunctions are used in pairs, i.e. neither-nor, either-or,
so-as, etc.
Interjection
An interjection expresses some sudden feeling of one’s mind. For
example, Alas! We have lost the match. Hurrah! We won the match.
Some common interjections are Bravo, Hurrah, Alas,
Oh,
Determiner
The word which is used at the beginning
of a noun group to indicate
'a', 'the', 'some', 'this', and 'each'
Articles
Definite article The form 'The' is
known as the definite article. It is used to point out some particular person
or thing. It is usually used with a singular countable noun.
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