PART OF SPEECH

Do the exercises below on parts of speech and click on the button to check your answers.

(Before doing the exercises you may want to read the lesson on parts of speech )

Decide which parts of speech are the underlined words

  1. You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect to be successful at something. 
  2. We left for the mountain just before six in the morning. 
  3. We first went to the store to buy a few things. 
  4. We had a breakfast at a café near the rail station. 
  5. My friend wasn't strong enough to lift his heavy rucksack. 
  6. I helped him carry it. 
  7. The weather was very cold. 
  8. My friend said, "Oh! What a cold weather!" 
  9. We didn't spend the night there. 
  10. We got back home late at night but we didn't go to sleep immediately. We were very hungry. 

 

Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech.

part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences
Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must EnglishClub.com is a web site. Ilike EnglishClub.com.
Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John This is my dog. He lives in myhouse. We live in London.
Adjective describes a noun a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.
Adverb describes a verb, adjective or adverb quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really My dog eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly.
Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
Preposition links a noun to another word to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday.
Conjunction joins clauses or sentences or words and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.
Interjection short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub.com, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:

  • Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:
    • Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
    • Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)
  • Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives