(IC) Lesson Topic 4: Reviewing Parts of Speech

Lesson Topic 4: Reviewing Parts of Speech

What are the eight parts of speech? How can the same word function as more than one part of speech?

Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. In the previous tasks within this module, we have studied each part of speech by itself. Now, we will be looking at how the parts of speech function together to make up the parts of a sentence.

Review the Eight Parts of Speech

Part of Speech	Use	Examples
Noun	names	Maria had an idea.
Pronoun	takes the place of a noun	He is cute.
Adjective	modifies a noun or pronoun	It is a silly hat.
Verb	shows action or state of being	Ada has met you.
Adverb	modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb	We left early.
Preposition	relates a noun or pronoun to another word	We looked for you.
Conjunction	joins words or groups of words	Bill or she will call.
Interjection	shows strong feeling	Ouch! My arm hurts.

Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next.

Now that we have learned all the parts of speech, we can identify the words in a sentence.

First of all, a word can be more than one part of speech and we have to look at how the word works in a particular sentence to know what part of speech it is. The chart below shows examples of words that have more than one part of speech.