ThePartsofSpeech
A review for ESOL students
There are nine parts of speech. They are articles, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. A word of caution, however, a word can be more than one part of speech. You can find out more information on the parts of speech by checking the sources listed at the bottom of this review.
a place, a thing, or an idea. For example, all of the following are nouns.
- Leah, Ignacio, Lan, Marek
- Japan, Venezuela, Atlanta, Kroger, the Gap
- pencil, store, music, air
- biology, theory of Relativity, Pythagorean theory
Hint: They are sometimes
preceded by noun markers. Noun markers are also called determiners and quantifiers.
They are words like a, an, the, this, that, these, those, each, some,
any, every, no, numbers (1,2,3,etc.), several, many, a lot, few, possessive
pronouns (his, her, etc). See determiners for more information.http://www.edb.utexas.edu/minliu/pbl/ESOL/help/libry/speech.htm
