9 Word Classes

 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