The 8 Parts of Speech

The verb: Verbs are words that name an action. It can be an

active action such as run, jump, or take. Verbs can also describe
a state of being, such as "is" or "has." Notice that verbs change
depending on who is doing the action: I jump, but he jumps. Verbs
also convey the time of the action, such as whether it is past or
present. I am jumping; I will jump tomorrow; I jumped yesterday.
Verbs never use apostrophes.
The noun: Nouns are words for people, places and things.
Nouns can name feelings or ideas as well. Nouns only change in
two ways: either we add an "s" at the end to signify that there is
more than one, or we add an apostrophe plus an "s" to signify a
relationship of possession. Nouns are the only one of the 8
parts of speech that take apostrophes.
The pronoun: Pronouns stand in for nouns. He, she, or it,
are pronouns that are used instead of the name of the person or
the object. Unlike nouns, pronouns never take apostrophes.

The adjective: An adjective provides information about a

noun. An adjective describes the noun. Words like big, small, fast,
and slow are adjectives. Sometimes a whole phrase can be an
adjective, if it is giving information about a noun.

The adverb: Like adjectives, adverbs provide information.

Except this time they provide information about verbs. They can
be a single word or a phrase. Often adjectives end in -ly.
 The preposition: prepositions can have many functions.
They can tell us the position of an object (on, under, in). They can
tell us a relationship between objects (of, before, after).

The conjunction: Conjunctions are joining words, such as

or, and and.

And the interjection. Shoot! I haven't made a page for

interjections. Darn! Interjections are words that express surprise.
They often come with an exclamation mark.
See below for examples of the usage of all the 8 parts of speech.

In fact, the same word can be a verb in one sentence and a noun or
adjective in the next.

Here are examples of the 8 parts of speech used in sentences. In the

following sentences, the main verb is in red , any nouns are in
blue , pronouns in green , adjectives in yellow , adverbs in
purple, prepositions in orange , conjunctions in brown , and interjections
in grey. The third and fourth example sentences contain all 8 parts of
speech.

Hurray! Spain won the World Cup!

My investments doubled last year and I bought a yacht . Yippee!

Susan was accepted into an Ivy

League school because of her excellent scholarship .

Yo! I love to listen to modern

rap music because I enjoy the wild rhymes . Word!

What about the word in black? It is an auxiliary (helper) verb. Technically

the whole main verb is "was accepted" because it is conjugated into a
passive voice past tense, but I didn't want to confuse you. Oops .