Parts of Speech | The 8 Parts of Speech with Examples and Rules

Parts of speech are fundamental categories that classify words based on their grammatical functions, roles, and relationships within sentences. They provide a framework for understanding how words are used in a language and help determine their syntactic behavior. In English, there are eight traditional parts of speech:

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Adverb
• Conjunction
• Verb
• Interjection
• Preposition

1. 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.

Cat	Computer	Train
Dog	Phone	Plane
Book	Wallet	Ship
Chair	Shirt	Bike
Table	Dress	Flower
Car	Sock	Grass
House	Bag	Rain
Tree	Cup	Snow
Flower	Plate	Wind
Child	Spoon	Cloud
Person	Fork	Fire
Country	Knife	Water
City	Watch	Air
Student	Key	Love
Teacher	Window	Hope
Mouse	Door	Dream
Bird	Table	Idea
Fish	Bed	Problem
Ball	Lamp	Solution
Shoe	Sun	Question
Hat	Moon	Answer
Apple	Star	Friend
Banana	Earth	Family
Orange	Sky	Job
Chair	Ocean	Money
Desk	River	Time
Pen	Mountain	Music
Pencil	Road	Art
Paper	Car	Language

2. 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 emphasize 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.

I	Mine	Myself
You	Yours	Yourself
He	His	Himself
She	Hers	Herself
It	Its	Itself
We	Ours	Ourselves
They	Theirs	Themselves
Me	All	Myself
You	Both	Yourself
Him	Few	Himself
Her	Many	Herself
Us	Several	Ourselves
Them	One	Themselves
My	Those	Our
Your	Some	Their
His	Any	This
Her	Every	That
Its	None	These

3. 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.

Beautiful	Small	Red
Ugly	Big	Blue
Handsome	Large	Green
Pretty	Tiny	Yellow
Cute	Tall	Orange
Attractive	Short	Purple
Gorgeous	Long	Pink
Stunning	Fat	Brown
Elegant	Thin	Black
Charming	Narrow	White
Graceful	Wide	Gray
Smart	Deep	Silver
Clever	Shallow	Gold
Intelligent	Heavy	Colorful
Wise	Light	Dark
Dumb	Fast	Bright
Brave	Slow	Pale
Cowardly	Quick	Pastel
Strong	Loud	Vibrant
Weak	Quiet	Muted
Powerful	Gentle	Neon
Feeble	Smooth	Soft
Fearless	Rough	Hard
Fierce	Sharp	Delicate
Calm	Blunt	Bold
Aggressive	Pointed	Subtle
Friendly	Flat	Vivid
Hostile	Round	Faded
Happy	Square	Clear
Sad	Rectangular	Cloudy

 4. 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 she quickly disappeared.

Quickly	Very	Carefully
Slowly	Quite	Loudly
Loudly	Too	Quietly
Quietly	Extremely	Happily
Happily	Rather	Sadly
Sadly	Fairly	Proudly
Proudly	Exceptionally	Anxiously
Anxiously	Incredibly	Nervously
Nervously	Terribly	Excitedly
Excitedly	Abnormally	Calmly
Calmly	Awfully	Joyfully
Joyfully	Amazingly	Accurately
Accurately	Unusually	Patiently
Patiently	Considerably	Generously
Generously	Highly	Gently
Gently	Moderately	Steadily
Steadily	Quite	Firmly
Firmly	Remarkably	Smoothly
Smoothly	Somewhat	Gracefully
Gracefully	Fairly	Directly
Directly	Relatively	Freely
Freely	Incredibly	Briskly
Briskly	Especially	Lazily
Lazily	Truly	Lightly
Lightly	Particularly	Eagerly
Eagerly	Entirely	Politely
Politely	Utterly	Rudely
Rudely	Remarkably	Swiftly
Swiftly	Exceptionally	Steadfastly
Steadfastly	Considerably	Heavily

5. 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:

And	Although	Both…and
But	As	Either…or
Or	Because	Neither…nor
Nor	Before	Not only…but also
Yet	After	Whether…or
So	Since	Whether…or
For	When	Both…and
While	Whenever	Neither…nor
As	Where	Not only…but also
Just as	If	Either…or
Provided that	Unless	Whether…or
Since	In case	Both…and
Unless	Though	Neither…nor
Although	Even if	Not only…but also
Even though	As if	Whether…or
Whereas	Until	Both…and
But	Once	Neither…nor
Whether	While	Not only…but also
Whether or not	Since	Either…or
And	Before	Whether…or
Or	After	Both…and
Nor	Because	Neither…nor
Yet	When	Not only…but also
So	Although	Whether…or
For	As	Either…or
But	If	Whether…or
So that	Unless	Both…and
In order that	In case	Neither…nor
Provided that	Even if	Not only…but also
Since	As if	Whether…or

6. 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:

Ask	Drive	Play
Jump	Read	Sing
Talk	Dance	Sleep
Write	Swim	Run
Study	Cook	Eat
Listen	Love	Draw
Laugh	Cry	Think
Stand	Speak	Work
Climb	Watch	Help
Smile	Clean	Fly
Listen	Give	Take
Learn	Open	Close
Create	Break	Fix
Teach	Call	Cut
Paint	Meet	Start
Finish	Visit	Drive
Buy	Sell	Play
Drink	Understand	Sing
Write	Dance	Sleep
Study	Cook	Eat
Listen	Love	Draw
Laugh	Cry	Think
Stand	Speak	Work
Climb	Watch	Help
Smile	Clean	Fly
Listen	Give	Take
Learn	Open	Close
Create	Break	Fix
Teach	Call	Cut
Paint	Meet	Start
Finish	Visit	Drive
Buy	Sell	Play

7. 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:

Wow	Yippee	Hooray
Oh	Yahoo	Yay
Ah	Whee	Bravo
Oops	Yip	Hip-hip-hooray
Hey	Woo-hoo	Cheers
Ouch	Yeehaw	Yippee ki-yay
Alas	Yikes	Hurrah
Phew	Yowza	Yippy
Huh	Woohoo	Yee
Oh no	Yesss	Yaaay
Ahem	Yodel	Yip-yip
Eek	Yummy	Woo
Eureka	Yabba dabba doo	Yeeh
Darn	Wowzers	Yoho
Gosh	Yessir	Yow
Hooray	Yayyy	Yoo-hoo
Oops	Yippee	Huzzah

8. 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:

In	On	Under
At	Above	Below
Over	Below	Behind
Before	After	Among
Between	Through	Across
Around	Against	Near
Beside	From	To
Into	Onto	Within
Without	Toward	Upon
With	Amongst	Inside
Outside	Amid	About
During	Until	Upon
Like	Unlike	For
Since	By	Behind
Over	Past	Throughout
Except	Beside	With
Without	Amongst	Against
Near	Above	Underneath
In front of	Opposite	Across from
Next to	Along	Behind
Below	Around	Within
By	Among	Alongside
Toward	Between	Upon
Inside	Outside	Despite
With	Upon	Along
Up	Down	Throughout
For	During	Behind
By	Near	Beneath