In sentences, the different types of words have different Jobs. We call these Jobs;
The Parts of Speech. Understanding the parts of speech will help us to
understand English and also to speak in a more beautiful and elegant way.
Have a look at this beautiful sentence,
"She quickly climbed up the tall mountain with grace and determination.“
Let’s quickly look at some of these words to see what type of words they are.
Climbed is a verb.
The Mountain is a noun.
Tall is an Adjective
Quickly is an adverb.
and up is a preposition.
So, lets talk about each of those so you can understand the job they do.
Let's start with verbs. A verb is a word that describes an action or a state of being. For
example, "run," "jump," "be," and "eat." Verbs are the most important part of a sentence because they
tell us what the subject is doing. Examples:
"She runs in the park every morning."
"He is happy."
A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.
For example, "dog," "city," "book," and “mountain”.
Nouns are often used as the subject or the object of a verb. For example:
"The cat is sleeping.“
Here ‘the cat’ is a noun and it is the subject of the sentence.
“The plane flew through the sky.“ In this sentence we have 2 nouns.
‘The plane’ is the subject of the sentence and ‘The sky’ is the object’
In our original sentence the word ‘mountain’ is the only noun, and it is the object.
The subject is ‘She’ this is a pronoun. A pronoun is word which refers to a noun. We use them so
that we don’t need to keep repeating their names. Some other pronouns are He, he, it, and they.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
Adjectives tell us more about the noun, such as its size, color, or quality.
For example, "big," "red," and "happy."
In English adjectives come before the noun they modify. For example;
"She is a beautiful singer.“
We can have more than one adjective as well. "The fast, red car.“
There is one adjective in our original sentence. Can you see what it is?
Tall is the adjective here and it is being used to describe the mountain.
An adverb describes a verb, adjective or another adverb.
Adverbs tell us how, when, or where it was done.
For example, "quickly," "loudly," and "well."
Adverbs often end with "ly". For example: She sings beautifully."
"He runs quickly."
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun and other
words in a sentence. Prepositions tell us where, when, and how things are related.
Examples of prepositions include "in," "on," "at," "with," and "by." For example:
"The cat is on the table." "I'll meet you at the park.“
So, you can see how it is important to understand the different parts of
speech and use them, because they form the building blocks of the English language. By
recognizing and producing these patterns, you will be able describe things, express yourself
with much more sophistication and be able to understand English with much more detail.
Let's end with an exercise. Here is another sentence.
See if you can find examples of all the Parts of Speech we have talked about, in this sentence.
“The curious cat quickly jumped over the tall fence to catch the flying bird.”
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