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Resource 7

Parts of Speech

If you are familiar with the parts of speech and their meanings, this section offers a quick review. If you have trouble remembering and identifying parts of speech, use this section as a way of learning the parts of speech.

• noun
  a word or group of words used as the name of a class of people, places, or things, or of a particular person, place, or thing.
• verb
  a word used to show that an action is taking place, or to indicate the existence of a state or condition, or the part of speech to which such a word belongs.
• adjective
  a word that qualifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
• adverb
  a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a sentence, for example, "happily," "very," or "frankly".
• preposition
  a member of a set of words used in close connection with, and usually before, nouns and pronouns to show their relation to some other part of a clause.
• conjunction
  a word that is used to link sentences, clauses, phrases, or words, for example, "and," "but," or "if".
• article
  a word used with a noun that specifies whether the noun is definite or indefinite.
  

  definite article: the

  indefinite article: a, an

• social amenities
  any words of courtesy or pleasantness or words used to facilitate a social exchange between individuals.

Words with several functions

this : a grammatical word used to indicate somebody or something that has already been mentioned or identified or something that is understood by both the speaker and hearer; indicating somebody or something present or close by, especially as distinct from somebody or something further away, referred to as "that".

that : a grammatical word used to indicate somebody or something that has already been mentioned or identified, or something that is understood by both the speaker and hearer; indicating somebody or something a distance away from you, or further away from another, referred to as “this”; used to refer to somebody or something not described, but familiar to the speaker and hearer and not requiring identification; used to characterize a particular type, person, or thing.