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Parts of speech in English grammar - Coggle Diagram
Parts of speech in English grammar
A part of speech describes the role a word plays in a sentence. There are nine parts of speech.
Noun:
is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
Types of noun
Verbal noun
Gender-specific nouns
Gerund noun
Uncountable noun
Countable noun
Compound noun
Collective noun
Abstract noun
Concrete noun
Common noun
Proper noun
Pronoun:
is a word used in place of a noun.
Types of pronoun
Personal pronoun
Possessive pronoun
Indefinite pronoun
Relative pronoun
Intensive pronoun
Demostrative pronoun
Interrogative pronoun
Reflexive pronoun
Reciprocal pronoun
Distributive pronoun
Verb:
expresses action or being..
Linking verbs:
connects a sentence together.
Action verbs:
show an action.
Reflexive verb:
refers back to the same thing
or person.
Auxiliary verb:
takes a supportive role in a sentence, second to the main verb.
Modal verb: s
how meanings such as possibilities,
permission, certainty etc.
Adverb:
modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Adverbs of Time
Adverbs of Place
Adverbs of Frequency
Adverbs of Degree
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of Reason
Relative Adverbs
Interrogative Adverbs
Adverbs of Affirmation and Negation
Degrees of adverbs
: Comparison, positive, comparative, and superlative
Adjective:
modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
Adjectives of quality
Adjectives of Quantity
Numeral Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Interrogative adjectives.
Preposition:
is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to form a phrase modifying another word in the sentence.
Simple Prepositions
Double Prepositions
Compound Prepositions
Phrasal prepositions
Participle Prepositions
Detached Prepositions
Conjunction:
joins words, phrases, or clauses.
Kinds of conjunctions:
correlative and compound.
Classes of conjunctions:
coordinating and subordinating.
Kinds of subordinating:
time, cause, purpose, consequence, condition, concession, comparison.
Kinds of coordinating:
cumulative, adversative, disjunctive, and illative.
Interjection:
is a word used to express emotion.
The types of interjections are:
for greeting, for happiness, for attention, for approval, for surprise, for sorrow, for shock, and for anger.
Determiners:
are words placed in front of a noun to make it clear what the noun refers to.
Articles
Demonstrative Determiners
Possessive Determiners
Quantifiers
Interrogative Determiners
Distributive Determiner
Cardinal Numbers
Ordinal Numbers