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Part of Speech

The document defines and provides examples of the 8 main parts of speech in English: 1. Nouns are words that identify people, places or things. Examples include book, table, and car. 2. Pronouns refer to nouns and include words like I, you, and it. 3. Verbs describe actions and include words like work, hit, and walk. 4. Adjectives describe nouns and include words like beautiful, good, and expensive. 5. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs and can indicate time, manner, degree and more. 6. Prepositions show spatial relationships and include words like in

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Part of Speech

The document defines and provides examples of the 8 main parts of speech in English: 1. Nouns are words that identify people, places or things. Examples include book, table, and car. 2. Pronouns refer to nouns and include words like I, you, and it. 3. Verbs describe actions and include words like work, hit, and walk. 4. Adjectives describe nouns and include words like beautiful, good, and expensive. 5. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs and can indicate time, manner, degree and more. 6. Prepositions show spatial relationships and include words like in

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PART OF SPEECH

PART OF SPEECH = 1. Noun

2. Pronoun

3. Verb

4. Adjective

5. Adverb

6. Preposition

7. Conjunction

8. Interjection

Noun

Definition: 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 ).

Example : book, table, bag, car, air

- Your book is on the table.


- I borrow your bag
- I am interested in reading history books.

Pronoun

Definition: Pronouns refer to either a noun that has already been mentioned or to a noun that does not
need to be named specifically.

Example : I, you, she, he, this, those

- I bought you some snacks. It is on the table.


- My friend, george, is a doctor. He lives in Jakarta

VERB

Definition: a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the
predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

EXAMPLE : work, hit, walk, touch, write


- I hit you with that spoon.
- Do not touch me

Adjective

Definition: a word that describes the traits, qualities, or number of a noun

Example : beautiful, good, bad, expensive

- Anita is a beautiful girl.


- I cant buy an expensive car

ADVERB

Definition: a word or pharase 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.

The different types of adverbs are:

1. adverb of time

Example : airin arrives from MEDAN today

2. adverb of manner

Example : the car engine will turn off automatically

3. adverb of degree

Example : Fire chicken with level 5 in here is very spicy

4. adverb of modality

Example : I think, the car is surely more comfortable than the motobike

5. adverb of frequency

Example : ragil rarely goes to school

6. adverb of place

Exampe : put the coffee there

7. adverb of focus

Example : radit has eaten the bread, also has arif

Preposition

Definition: a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time,
place, location, spatia relationships, or to introduce an object.

Example : in, at, on, of, by,to

- I put the book on the table


- I passed my holidays at puncak.
Conjunction

Definition: a word used to connect words, phrases and clauses

Example : and, but, both, although

- My family and my neighbour have a holiday together


- I like the car, but I don’t have enough

Interjection

Definition: a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous
feeling or reaction

Example : oopss, hurray, bravo

- Oopss, sorry! I didn’t mean it


- Hurray! We are going on holiday

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