Come to eaters language corners world of grammar. And this lesson, we are going to take a look at the use of parts of speech, we are going to analyze all the parts of speech of the English language. This is a very important information, as it helps you to better identify errors that you make and to make the necessary changes and corrections. Please be advised that this is a lesson, you may need to watch more than once. Feel free to stop, rewind or fast forward as much as you need. And of course, be sure to do the practice activities at the end of the lesson.

Let's get started. So what exactly is a part of speech? The parts of speech can best be defined as the category in which a word is assigned to based on whatever its function is, so if we look at our sample example from lesson one, the Johnsons had four children. Each of the words in the sentence has a function. So let's take a look at the nine parts of speech and how it functions in a sentence. The first part of speech is a noun.

And a noun is defined as a person, place or thing. So, an example are things like teacher, student cat, so a teacher is a person and as well as a student, and a cat is not a place nor thing, but it is a living being so you can go on ahead and just close By it as a as a person, because of its living status. So, the sample sentence that I have here, states I have a cat. So cat would be my Noun. a pronoun replaces a noun. And your pronouns are your words such as she you, her there my mind.

And the purpose of it is to replace whatever noun you have in a sentence so that you're not so redundant and repetitive when you are writing. So for example, Linda is pretty and then we have she is pretty that she in this sentence is replacing Linda Now, please be mindful not to mix up your pronouns here. When you're writing, it's very important to be cognizant that if you're talking about a female, use sheet, if it's a male use he or his or him. Don't mix up the two. Okay? Now the third part of speech is a verb.

And the verb is the action, right? So such words like can love, eat, sing, and our example that we have here, I love English. Now, let's talk briefly about verbs because it's not as simplistic as action because there are actually in fact two different types of verbs that exist. Our first type of verb that exists is Our action verb, and those are your verbs like eat and sing. However, if we take a look at the verb like love, and can, it's not exactly an action verb. Because an action verb means that there's some type of physical activity taking place.

With love, and can, can first and foremost it's a modal verb. And it's always accompanied by some type of action verb, the base form of an action verb. But love is not a physical thing you cannot show love. There's no way to physically demonstrate that verb. So that verb falls into the category of what we call a non action verb and non action verbs are your verbs that tend to be a little bit more abstract. Such as be, the verb to be is one of those non action verbs.

You cannot show me B. So this is very important when you are writing. Because, if you don't know if you have an action or not action for you will oftentimes make the mistake of using Continuous tenses with non action verbs. And you cannot use Continuous tenses with non action verbs because it's not really associated with the physical state. Okay, next we have adjectives, and an adjective describes a noun. And we have some examples here such as for small, excited and harder.

All right, let's look here at our sample sentence. I like small dogs. So small is our adjective. And it's an adjective because it is giving more information about our noun dogs. Now, nouns and pronouns and verbs there are many different layers to them. And the same goes for adjectives.

So we have a variety of adjective forms. So let's take a look at what those forms are. The first kind of adjective that we have is what's called a descriptive adjective, and your descriptive adjective or your adjectives like small and for why because they are describing the noun, right? It's super simplistic. It matches with the function and the definition of what an adjective is. However, we have Another form, which is also descriptive, but it's called a participle adjective.

And your participle adjectives are those words that look like verb. So they either in a present participle, the IMG form, or the past participle, the easy form and they look like burps, but in essence, they are not birds. They are adjectives, adjectives that are used to describe emotion. So anytime you have a participle adjective, it's a word that's used to describe a motion. And we have an example here as I have notated in our sample, excited, okay. So, that's the second category of adjectives.

Now, the next kind of adjective that we have are what are called comparative as well as your superlative adjective, your comparative additive would be your word like harder, or more beautiful, right? And then your superlative would be the hardest, or the most beautiful. And those are the four types of adjectives that we have and that you'll probably use in your writing. But nonetheless, they're all agitates. Okay, so, let's take a look at our adverbs. nouns.

Adverbs are words that can provide more information, not only about verbs, but also adjectives and adverbs as well. So for example, slowly well badly smoothly. And we have an example here, he reads slowly. Now, just like adjectives, adverbs also have a variety of types of different categories. So let's take a look at those categories right now. The first type of adverb that exists is what we call an adverb of manner.

And the purpose of an adverb of manner is to tell you how a verb was done, how the action was done. So for example, slowly is an example of an adverb of manner. The next kind is adverb of degree, an adverb of degrees. Discuss the intensity of the verb, the adjective or the adverb, and those are words like very so, too. Okay, you're explaining The intensity of your verb Well, you know, how slowly or you know you're taking it a step further, how beautiful how quickly things like that. Now, the other category that we have and you may be very familiar with this is it's very basic are your adverbs of frequency.

And the purpose of adverb of frequencies are to tell you how often right the frequency in which an activity or an event occurs. So always and often, never, sometimes, usually, those are adverbs of frequency. And then the last two categories or types of adverbs are the same as your adjectives which are the comparative and the superlative form. So an example Have a comparative adverb would be more slowly and then the superlative form would be the most slowly. All right. Now if you are a little confused about comparative or superlative, and you'd like more information about these two things, please feel free to stop by each language corner.com where there are two quick notes, reference guides that you can use at your disposal.

And each of them come with some type of practice activity for you to review and practice your comparative and superlative adjective and adverb Okay, so now, let's move to our next category of parts of speech. Articles. Now, articles are words that determine a noun. And when we say determine we are basically expressing that it's kind of giving more information about the noun, but it's not the same as an adjective, whereas an adjective kind of describes and qualifies that noun in the sense of, you know, colors and shapes and opinions and things like that. The purpose of an article is to basically give you the specify to let you know the specificity or whether or not that article is general. And so, your articles are a and under.

For example, can you pass me a Piece of cake, the cake is over there. Now, there are two types of articles, which we're going to take a look at right now. And the two types of articles that exist are your definite which is your the so your definite article as well as your indefinite article. And that would be your a. And now, the purpose of a definite article is to tell you the specificity of that now, so we're dealing with specific things. And then the knee indefinite article discusses the general the general nouns, right?

And we're basically discussing a general singular now. Now definite can either go with plural Or singular. But the indefinite is always going to be general and only for singular countable nouns. Now, if you are confused about in articles, please stop by E language corner calm and go to the free resource tab, where there is also a quick notes guide on the A and the in addition to a practice activity. All right, so we're almost done here. prepositions.

Prepositions would be our seventh part of speech. And the purpose of prepositions is normally to show the relationship between words, phrases, and things of that nature. So those would be your words like to act on an end. And so what's happening here in our simple sentence Go to school every day. The two is showing the relationship between go and school. Go is my verb, it's my action.

It's what I'm doing but that go is leading me to a specific location, which is school. So that's generally the function of prepositions and how they work. Now, conjunctions, which you are probably very familiar with, but I had no idea that it was called a conjunction, a conjunction joins clauses and sentences or words together. And those are your words like and but when, because and so on and so forth. And a lesson to come, we are going to be talking about sentence types, simple, compound, complex, compound complex sentences, and when we Do that lesson, we will be talking a lot about conjunctions, and the different types of conjunctions and when to use them. But for now, let's look at our sample sentence.

I eat chicken and fish, but I don't like beef. So my two conjunctions are an and but and the end is connecting the chicken and the fish. Whereas the butt is connecting the two sentences together. And our two sentences are as follows. I eat chicken and fish. That's the first sentence and I don't like beef which would be the second sentence okay.

So the relationship of an M, but our respective To exactly what they're trying to do, and trying to join two words together, but trying to join two sentences together. Okay, so the ninth and final part of speech is Interjection. And an interjection is basically an emotion word that we tend to insert in our writing, or in our speaking, for whatever purpose, and they're normally accompanied with an exclamation mark. So for example, Oh, ouch, hi, oops, uh, you, right? Those are not really words. They're more like sounds that are used to express emotion.

So in our sample sentence that we have here, we have, oops, I broke the glass. So my oops My introduction and it's me putting emotion into a very basic sentence. And that concludes our lesson on parts of speech. Be sure that you practice because practice is very important to make sure that you fully understand the contents of this lesson. And also remember that parts of speech really help you to use the correct word form when you're speaking. See you soon