Parts of Speech

 PARTS OF SPEECH 

Noun

Pronoun

Verb

Adverb

Adjectives 

Preposition 

Conjunctions 

Interjections 

1. Noun: A Noun refers to names of persons, places, or things. E.g Chike, Ade, Audu, Lagos, Abuja, book, pen, orange, etc.

Types of Noun

i. Common Noun: These are nouns which refers to things. They usually have plural forms. E.g book/books, car/cars, etc.

ii. Proper noun: These are nouns which refers to persons and places. They do not have the plural form. E.g Mary, January, Faith Academy, etc.

2. Pronouns: Pronouns are used instead of a noun. E.g he, she, it, they, them, etc.

Types of pronounce include possessive pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, etc.

3. Verb: A verb is an action word. It tells us something about the subject of a sentence. Example of verbs include go, stop, shout, run, sang, etc.

Types of Verbs include transitive and intransitive verbs.

a. Transitive verbs are verbs which take object nouns. E.g The pupils watched the play ii) The pupils like their teacher.

b. Intransitive verbs are verbs that does not have object nouns. E.g I) Some of the pupils swam. ii) The choir sang.