Word Classes
There are nine word classes (or parts of speech) in total. Here are some examples of the different word classes that you might come across:
Verbs are action or state words like: run,
work, study, be, seem.
Nouns are words for people, places or
things like: mother, town, Rome, car, dog.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns, like:
kind, clever, expensive.
Adverbs are words that modify verbs,
adjectives or other adverbs, like: quickly, back, ever, badly, away generally,
completely.
Determiners(Articles, Possessives,
Interrogatives, Demonstratives, Quantifiers) are a word that introduces a noun.
It always comes before a noun, not after, and it also comes before any other
adjectives used to describe the noun. E.g. The bunny went home, or I ate the
chocolate cookie for dessert.
Prepositions are words usually in front of a noun
or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element, like: after,
down, near, of, plus, round.
Pronouns are words that take the place of
nouns, like: me, you, his, it, this, that, mine, yours, who, what.
Conjunctions are a word that joins words,
phrases, clauses or sentences, like: but, and, yet, or, because, nor, although,
since, unless, while, where.
Interjections have no grammatical value -
words like: ah, hey, oh, ouch, um, well
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