There are eight different kinds of word in English. They are called ‘word classes’ or ‘parts of speech’. Some words can belong to different classes depending on how they are used in a sentence.
8 Parts of Speech Definitions and Examples
| Parts of Speech | Definitions | Examples |
| Noun | A word that refers to a person, a place or a thing. | teacher, Tokyo, pencil, Monday, apple, dog, tree |
| Verb | A word that express an action, an event, or a state. | eat, sleep, walk, run, go, look, think |
| Adjective | A word that describes a person or thing. | good, bad, big, small, young, old |
| Adverb | A word that adds more information about time, place, manner, cause or degree to a verb, an adjective, a phrase or another adverb. | quickly, slowly, today, tomorrow, here, there |
| Pronoun | A word that is used instead of a noun. | I, they, you, we, he, she, it |
| Preposition | A word used before a noun or a pronoun to show place, position, time or method. | at, on, in, to, from, under, above |
| Conjunction | A word that joins words, phrases or sentences. | and, or, but, so, because |
| Determiner | A word that introduces a noun. | a, an, my, our, this, the |
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