Part of speech

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In grammar, a part of speech (also called a word class, lexical class or lexical category) is a type of word. (The word lexical means "relating to the vocabulary of a language"). There are many different lexical categories, but the most common ones are the following: noun The noun identifies a person, place, or thing (Nouns with capital letters are proper nouns, such as "London" or "Fred"). pronoun A pronoun substitutes for a person, place, or thing, such as "it", "you", "she" or "he" - a quick way to repeat a noun. verb A verb is an action word. adjective An adjective describes a noun. adverb An adverb describes an adjective, verb, or another adverb. Adverbs sometimes end in -ly but not always. It should also be noted that not all words that end in -ly are adverbs. preposition Prepositions are words or word groups which begin a noun phrase with more than one word, such as "in" or "after". interjection An interjection is a word which shows emotions, such as "Adieu!" and "Ouch!" conjunction Conjunctions, such as "and" or "or", join two clauses or form lists.