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Mon, 09/01/2008 - 00:00 — Chris McCarthy

‘It gets hectic around here at lunchtime’ Is 'hectic' a verb, noun or adjective?

English speech can be separated into eight basic categories:

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Pronouns
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections

Each category tells how a word is used in a sentence, but not what the word means. Sometimes the same word can be used in different ways. For example:

'Yuya plays the piano'. In this sentence 'plays' is a verb.
'The play starts at 7pm'. In this sentence 'play' is a noun.

Let's take a look at some examples of each category:

Nouns

'Dogs are cute.'

In this sentence 'Dogs' is the noun and the subject of the sentence. To put it simply, nouns are 'things': Table, Africa, Money, David Beckham – all of these are nouns.

Verbs

'Simon jumped off the wall.'

Here 'jumped' is the verb. It refers to an action.

Adjectives

'Tokyo is a big city.'

In this sentence 'big' is an adjective. Adjectives are used to describe a noun or a pronoun.

Pronouns

'They always drive to work.'

Here 'they' is a pronoun. Pronouns are used to identify nouns.

Adverbs

'She quietly walked away.'

Here 'quietly' is an adverb. Adverbs give us more information about a verb or adjective.

Prepositions

'My birthday is in May.'

In this sentence 'in' is a preposition. Prepositions are used to connect words and they usually come before a noun or pronoun.

Conjunctions

'Although he likes baseball, he is not very good at it.'

In this sentence 'although' is a conjunction. Conjunctions are used to connect clauses, phrases and words in a sentence.

Interjections

'Hey! Watch where you are going!'

In this sentence 'Hey' is an interjection. Interjections are used to show a sudden expression of emotion.

Now read through the following sentences and choose the correct match for the key words:

  • 'Sheila was bitten by a SNAKE'.









  • 'WOW! This tastes great!'









  • 'She CRUSHED the can with her hands.'









  • 'Your brother plays the piano WONDERFULLY'.









  • 'It is HECTIC around here at lunchtime'.









  • 'I finished reading my book WHILE she was sleeping.'









  • 'The bank is BETWEEN the post office and the church.'









  • 'This coat is not MINE.'









  • 'SHE ran all the way home after school.'









  • 'The Letter 'a' comes BEFORE 'b' in the alphabet.'









  • 'Call me WHEN you are ready.'









  • 'It was WINDY all day'.









  • 'UNFORTUNATELY, I have to work tomorrow.'









  • 'Did the phone RING?









  • 'PHEW. That was close!'









  • 'You should go and see a DENTIST'.













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Comments

Mon, 09/01/2008 - 02:47 — Anas legend

This lesson very useful.

Thanks a lot this lesson is very important to me.. I used to found I used to try to found this lesson but now I found it

I love this Language. Anas Legend

Thu, 09/18/2008 - 04:18 — Muhammad Umar Khan

Part of speech

This lesson is very useful for me. i always try to find tis and i found it.

i am foun of learning english. muhammad umar khan

Fri, 09/12/2008 - 08:29 — delroy

Parts of Speech

Ps.Try to give more infomation on individual topics in Parts of Speech i.e.,Nouns- Common/Proper/Collective/Abstract/Material,Singular-Plural,Countable-Uncountable,etc,etc,.[On all the Parts of Speech as that will be more infomative.]

Wed, 09/17/2008 - 10:07 — amphone

This lesson is useful for me

This lesson is useful for me alot, thanks so much for your lesson

Fri, 09/12/2008 - 12:47 — lipcysingh

I scored 100 out of 100

I am very happy because I scored 100 out of 100, which means parts of speech are clear to me!!!!!!!!

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 20:31 — miffoo l

little hard

this lesson is interesting but little hard.

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:45 — nihatyavas

Yuya

‘Yuya plays the piano.’ --> is yuya a slang of you/he/she or a name?

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:55 — Chris McCarthy

Yuya

Yuya is a common male first name in Japan.

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 08:12 — nihatyavas

thanks

you enlightened me

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:58 — nihatyavas

double through

Now read through through the following sentences...

Wed, 11/05/2008 - 07:22 — tib13

question on Noun

nouns are ‘things’: Table, Africa, Money, David Beckham

There are also nouns which are not 'things'For eg.activity, creativity, and so on..

Can you please enlighten me on this?

Thank you

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 08:52 — inday

thank you for identifying

thank you for identifying the different parts of speech.

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 09:11 — yhen

inday, where are you from?

inday, where are you from?

Sat, 03/14/2009 - 05:29 — khumri64

it was a great lesson. i

Wave it was a great lesson. i think more such lesson should also be included for practice

Mon, 04/20/2009 - 18:07 — Yura

two mistakes

It was easy, but I made two mistakes:( Again - windy adj. or adv., and your "hectic" - the awful word. Worried

Thu, 07/09/2009 - 14:56 — smara

parts of speech

smara It helping me a lot this the first time iknow the meaning of the word interjections and what stand for thanks

Wed, 08/05/2009 - 12:58 — ynastia

Tnank you for basis language

Tnank you for basis language theory! Smile

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 20:27 — ariana13

it was ok !

it was ok !

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:26 — beta

EASY???? Not at all

very interesting lesson

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:42 — koshi

not bad

Kiss not bad

Thu, 10/22/2009 - 15:23 — geofatma

ful mark

thank you for your great efforts.

Wed, 04/28/2010 - 17:46 — ta_sha

It was cognitive for me

Thanks a lot for this tests.
Owing to this test I understood that I must review part of speech.