Nine Parts of Speech and Their Roles

1

Noun: Names a person, place, thing, or idea. Acts as the subject, object, or complement in a sentence.

Example: Priya, book, happiness

Role: Identifies who or what the sentence is about or what is affected.


2

Pronoun: Replaces a noun to avoid repetition. Refers to a person, place, or thing.

Example: she, it, they

Role: Acts as a substitute for a noun, serving as subject, object, or possessive.


3

Verb: Expresses action, occurrence, or state of being. Shows what the subject does or is.

Example: run, is, think

Role: Drives the sentence by describing the action or state.


4

Adjective: Describes or modifies a noun, indicating its quality, quantity, or extent.

Example: beautiful, big, three

Role: Adds detail to nouns, making them specific or vivid.


5

Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, describing how, when, where, or to what extent.

Example: quickly, very, yesterday

Role: Enhances the meaning of verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.


6

Preposition: Shows the relationship of a noun/pronoun to another word, often indicating place, time, or direction.

Example: in, on, at

Role: Connects nouns/pronouns to other parts of the sentence.


7

Conjunction: Joins words, phrases, or clauses, showing relationships like addition or contrast.

Example: and, but, because

Role: Links ideas to form complex or compound sentences.


8

Interjection: Expresses emotion, surprise, or exclamation, often standing alone.

Example: Wow!, Ouch!, Hey!

Role: Adds emotional tone or emphasis.


9.

Determiner: introduces the noun. Includes - articles, demonstratives, numbers, measuring words, possessive pronouns and such. 

Example: a, an, this, that, my, five , sixth 

Role: adds clarification to the idea.




Example Sentence:

(with All Nine Parts of Speech)

Sentence: Wow, she quickly read this big book on history and smiled happily.


Analysis:


Interjection: Wow (expresses surprise)

Pronoun: she (replaces a noun, e.g., Priya)

Adverb: quickly (modifies read), happily (modifies smiled)

Verb: read (action), smiled (action)

Determiner: this (specifies book)

Adjective: big (describes book)

Noun: book (thing), history (thing/idea)

Preposition: on (relates book to history)

Conjunction: and (joins clauses)


Part of Speech

Role

Example

Noun

Names person, place, thing, idea 

Priya, book

Pronoun

Replaces noun

she, it

Verb

Shows action or state

run, smile

Adjective

Describes noun

big, beautiful

Adverb

Modifies verb/adjective/adverb

quickly, very

Preposition

Shows relationship

in, on

Conjunction

Joins words/clauses

and, but

Interjection

Expresses emotion

Wow!, Hey!

Determiner

Specifies noun

a, an, this, my, some



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