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Parts of speech
There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, ad
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Verb | A verb is a word or a combination of words that indicates action or a state of being or condition. |
| Noun | A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ). |
| Pronoun | The pronoun is a part of speech that denotes subject, characteristic and quantity, but doesn't name it. |
| Adjective | Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast. |
| Adverb | A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ). |
| Preposition | A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. |
| Conjunction | Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together. |