Comprehensive notes on parts of speech with examples
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Notes on the Nine Parts of Speech
The following are parts of speech in English: 1. Nouns Nouns are names of people, animals, things, places, ideas or actions. People - Alex, Mary, teacher, farmer, doctor, etc Things - shoe, bag, table, tree, roof, stone, office, etc Animals - giraffe, elephant, goat, cow, mongoose, kangaroo, etc Places - Church, town, Nairobi, Pretoria, market, parliament, court, etc Ideas - peace, hope, justice, courage, anger, colour, etc Actions - farming, cooking, trading, flying, reading, eating, etc 2. Pronouns Pronouns take the place nouns or the noun phrases when we do not want to name the nouns or the noun phrases. There are various types of pronouns: Personal pronouns - I, me, he, she, us, they, them,we, us Impersonal pronouns - One, it Possessive pronouns - mine, yours, his, hers, ours,theirs Demonstrative pronouns - this, that, those,these Reflexive pronouns - myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, themselves, itself Relative pronouns - that, which, who, whose, whom Indefinite pronouns - somebody, …
