🧩 Parts of Speech
= syntactic word categories that comprise a language
🇺🇸 The 8 English parts of speech:1
Open classes
= POS, which don’t readily accept new members
- NOUN: a person/place/thing/idea → “dog”
- ADVERB: description of (AD)VERB/ADJECTIVE → “quickly”
- ADJECTIVE: description of (PRO)NOUN → “quick”
- INTERJECTION: expression of emotion → “wow”
- MAIN VERB: action → “run”
Closed
- AUXILIARY VERB: being → “can”
- PRONOUN: used in place of a NOUN → “he”
- PREPOSITION: description of a relation between a (PRO)NOUN to another word → “after”
- CONJUNCTION: connection of words/phrases/ → “and”