The 8 Parts of Speech in English: A Complete Guide for Beginners

Students, After introducing myself and the course, let’s start our first lesson.

The topic is parts of speech. You know that a man communicates his thoughts through language. All languages in the world consist of words.

There are words in every language. These are alphabets and words. Alphabets make words and words make a sentence which is the source to share meaningful thoughts or ideas.

In the English language, there are millions of words which are divided into categories. We call them parts of speech. In this lesson, we tell you what the parts of speech are

and how many types of the parts of speech. Parts is the term used in traditional grammar. It means parts or parts of words of language.

You can say it is the category of parts of language or types of words. We can say this too. The technical term which is used for type of words is parts of speech.

Let’s see how many parts of speech are in English. They are nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

So Dear Students there are eight different parts of speech. You know about them now. Let’s quickly go through the definition of all eight parts of speech.

The first definition is a noun. Let’s have a look at that. A noun is a word that names something,

such as a person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, a noun can play the role of the subject, direct object (on which action is performed) it comes after verb,

indirect object, I will discuss this detail with you, but this is enough to remember this. subject complement, object complement, appositive, or adjective.

You will think that these terms are quite difficult, yes these are but they are not difficult to understand

When I will discuss with you in detail. You just need to remember that noun is a name of things, places, ideas, or persons. The second definition is of a verb.

A verb is 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.

That word which shows an action or happening and that show a being or condition, that is called verb. What is an action? Action is a verb, being means to happen,

I am Altaf, you can be Khalid or Zahid. To tell this, a word is used that is called a verb. A verb has different types. We will learn them too in detail.

Next comes a pronoun. A pronoun is a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants

in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse for example she, it, this.

Those words which are used in place of nouns. Those are pronouns. Pronoun Words that are used in place of nouns.

What are nouns? Names. My name is Altaf and the pronoun for me is I. We all are Pakistani.

For our is we and for we, is we. The words which are used for nouns, these are called pronouns. These have different types. We will discuss its different types later.

Then next definition is an adjective. An adjective is a word naming an attribute of a noun,

such as sweet, red, or technical. A word that describes attribute, quality, and characteristic. I have used three words quality, characteristic and attribute.

What does this mean basically? Quality. It describes about that. For example, I said the red pen, right or

an example of sweet is given here. sweet banana. Sweet and red describe the quality of the noun. So, they are known as adjectives.

The next definition is an adverb. Let’s have a look at that. An adverb is 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. You will think from the definition that it is quite difficult. Not at all.

Such words as pronoun tell about a noun, Action, being or to happen. Some words describe about the action, these are adverbs. Besides, adverbs could tell or qualify about adverbs or adjectives too.

The details will be discussed later. Next comes a preposition. A preposition is a word governing and usually

preceding, a noun or pronoun, and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause,

as in the man on the platform, she arrived after dinner, What did you do it for? Those words which describe the relation of nouns with another nouns

as book on the table, On is a word (preposition) pen in my pocket, etc.

Space, noun, its place, relationship with time Prepositions tell about the time, manner, and place of a noun. The next definition is a conjunction.

A conjunction is a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause. (e.g. and, but, if). Those words which connect one word with another

For instance, there are two words Khalid, Ahmed. To connect them, we say , Khalid and Ahmed. And is a conjunction. It can connect two words, two phrases, two clauses.

We will teach you all this in the detail. And then an interjection is an exclamation,

8th part of speech is interjection, these are exclamation, especially as a part of speech (e.g. Ah!, dear me!).

You exclaim when you express your emotions that is an exclamation. Any emotion of happiness, wonderfulness (WOW), and excitement (OMG) reflect our emotions. We call them interjections.

Dear Students You have overviewed eight parts of speech. Let’s recall them.

Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections There are many lessons about them

that we have learned and will learn more. Focusing on these parts of speech, the concepts will be clear with the help of exercises and examples. You will be told how to become a proficient learner

to improve your English language skills. Insha Allah!