2. Parts of speech or grammatical categories These descriptions are deliberately brief. Each of these parts of speech is defined and described
in greater detail, with more examples, on its own page. Follow the links.
Adjective - An
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adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun, or occasionally a
pronoun. Examples:
Good / bad / ugly / disreputable. Examples:
A big man / A good one . Adverb - An
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adverb is a word that describes of modifies a verb, an adjective, another
adverb,
or
occasionally
a
whole
sentence.
Examples:
Slowly / generally / upwards / somewhere / quite Article - An
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article is a type of determiner which comes before a noun. In English we
distinguish two sorts of articles, the definite article
the , and the inderfinite
articles
a and an . Some grammar-books also include the word
some as an indefinite article.
Conjunction - A
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conjunction is a word that is used to link sentences, clauses, phrases or
words. The main examples :
and / but / or / yet . See Coordination
Noun - A
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noun is a word that describes an entity (person, item, substance etc) or a process.
It is usually preceded by a determiner (article or other determiner) and may be qualified or
modified by one or more adjectives, by prepositional phrases, or by another noun. Nouns are
divided into two main categories, count or
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countable nouns , that can be counted, and non-
count
or
uncountable
nouns
that
cannot.
Examples:
Man / woman / chair / basket / oxygen / philosophy / idea
