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Part of
Speech Definition Purpose Example Sentence

A word that names The monkey ran up the
Noun a person, place, Person, place, or Agra, tree.
monkey
thing
thing, or idea. I am going to Agra.
A word that shows The boy was crying.
Verb action or a state of action/doing words ran, crying The cat ran after the
being. mouse.

A word that
describes or He was driving a red car.
Adjective describes a noun Red, long
modifies a noun or I have long hair.
pronoun.

A word that describes the The airplane was flying
modifies a verb, above,
Adverb verb, adjective, or above the clouds.
adjective, or another adverb quickly
another adverb. The cat drinks milk quickly.

She is speaking quite
A word that takes gently.
Pronoun the place of a replaces the noun she, he, it,
you
noun. You should brush your
teeth.

The same word can be used as different parts of speech as shown below:

ALL
Adjective All women must vote.
Noun My father lost his all in speculation.

Adverb She was all alone in the classroom.
Pronoun All voted against him in the election.

Noun

Adverbs Verbs

Parts of
Interjections Speech Pronouns

Conjunctions Adjectives

Prepositions

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