This section on Parts of Speech is your second lesson. Remember the first lesson so that this lesson will be very clear for understanding.
You saw in the first lesson that the words are very important in the formation of sentences.
The words constitute the Parts of Speech.
The words used in English are divided into eight parts according to the functions carried out by those words in a sentence.
Those EIGHT PARTS are:
1. Noun
2. Verb
3. Adjective
4. Adverb
5. Pronoun
6. Preposition
7. Conjunction
8. Interjection
All these parts of speech have their own roles in the formation of sentences. In the following lessons, we can see all these parts of speeches indepth. Now,let us see these eight parts one by one briefly.
1.Noun:
A noun is a word used as a name of a person, place, thing,
state, quality, activity, action etc...
Examples:
• Mr. John is our English teacher.
In this sentence the words “Mr. John” and “teacher” are nouns.
• Harvard University is the oldest University.
In this sentence the words “Harvard” and “University” are nouns.
• Lions live in forest.
In this sentence the words “Lion” and “forest” are nouns.
• He is my best friend.
In this sentence, the words “He” and “friend” are nouns.
London, New Delhi, Himalaya, philosophy, beauty, car, road,
Management, science, school, students, books, Mrs. Raman, tree,
mango, fruits and flowers are few of the nouns.
Few other nouns are ball, town, bill, boy, child, hospital,
hotel, home, hall, fame, college, road, fruit, computer etc…
The another part in the parts of speech is
To know more about Noun
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