Parts of speech

Nouns
1. -Name people, places, things, qualities, ideas or activities -Act as the subject/object of the verbs
2. Subcategories
  1. Countable
  2. Uncountable
  3. proper
  4. Common
  5. Abstract
    1. Love, anger, loyalty, belief, education
  6. Collective
    1. Team, class, group, etc
Verbs
1. -Shows an action, state or experience
2. Subcategories
  1. transitive
  2. Intransitive
  3. Regular
  4. Irregular
  5. modals
  6. Phrasal
  7. Active voice
  8. Passive voice
Adjectives
1. -Describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun or part of a sentence
2. Subcategories
  1. Comparative
  2. Superlative
Adverbs
1. -Describe or give information about how, when or where something happens -Add information to adjectives, verbs, other abverbs or sentences
2. Subcategories
  1. Degree
    1. Too, almos, much, very
  2. Manner
    1. Slowly, quietly
  3. Time
    1. Now, before dark, early
  4. Focus
  5. Frequency
    1. Every day, often
  6. Quantity
  7. Attitude
  8. Markers
Determiners
1. -Make clear which noun is referred to
2. Subcategories
  1. Possessive adjectives
    1. My, your, his, her, etc
  2. Articles
    1. The, a, an
  3. Demonstrative adjectives
    1. This, these, That
  4. Quantifiers
    1. Many, much, some, any
Prepositions
1. -Show the relationship between a noun, noun phrase or pronoun and another word or phrase
2. Subcategories
  1. Time
  2. Place
  3. Direction
  4. Contrast
  5. Exemplification
  6. Exception
  7. Cause and effect
  8. Dependent
Pronouns
1. -Show the relationship between a noun, noun phrase or pronoun and another word or phrase
2. Subcategories
  1. Personal
  2. Possessive
  3. Relative
    1. Which, that, who, where
  4. Reflexive
    1. -self, -selves
Conjuntions
1. -Join words, sentences or parts of sentences
2. Subcategories
  1. Reason
  2. Addition
  3. Contrast
  4. Time
  5. Condition
  6. Purpose
  7. Result

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