Parts of speech

Parts of speech

1. Nouns

   • -Name people, places, things, qualities, ideas or activities -Act as the subject/object of the verbs
   • Subcategories
     • Countable
     • Uncountable
     • proper
     • Common
     • Abstract
       • Love, anger, loyalty, belief, education
     • Collective
       • Team, class, group, etc

2. Verbs

   • -Shows an action, state or experience
   • Subcategories
     • transitive
     • Intransitive
     • Regular
     • Irregular
     • modals
     • Phrasal
     • Active voice
     • Passive voice

3. Adjectives

   • -Describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun or part of a sentence
   • Subcategories
     • Comparative
     • Superlative

4. Adverbs

   • -Describe or give information about how, when or where something happens -Add information to adjectives, verbs, other abverbs or sentences
   • Subcategories
     • Degree
       • Too, almos, much, very
     • Manner
       • Slowly, quietly
     • Time
       • Now, before dark, early
     • Focus
     • Frequency
       • Every day, often
     • Quantity
     • Attitude
     • Markers

5. Determiners

   • -Make clear which noun is referred to
   • Subcategories
     • Possessive adjectives
       • My, your, his, her, etc
     • Articles
       • The, a, an
     • Demonstrative adjectives
       • This, these, That
     • Quantifiers
       • Many, much, some, any

6. Prepositions

   • -Show the relationship between a noun, noun phrase or pronoun and another word or phrase
   • Subcategories
     • Time
     • Place
     • Direction
     • Contrast
     • Exemplification
     • Exception
     • Cause and effect
     • Dependent

7. Pronouns

   • -Show the relationship between a noun, noun phrase or pronoun and another word or phrase
   • Subcategories
     • Personal
     • Possessive
     • Relative
       • Which, that, who, where
     • Reflexive
       • -self, -selves

8. Conjuntions

   • -Join words, sentences or parts of sentences
   • Subcategories
     • Reason
     • Addition
     • Contrast
     • Time
     • Condition
     • Purpose
     • Result