Parts of Speech

Jamal Al-BalushiAbdullah Al-Nabhani

PARTS OF SPEECH

NOUNS

PREPOSITIONS

ADJECTIVES ADVERBS

VERBS

NOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

PREPOSITINS

- A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn.

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NOUNS

NOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

PREPOSITINS

- The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and expresses actions, events, or states of being. The verb or compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of a sentence.

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VERBS

NOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

PREPOSITINS

- An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. It qualifies or modifies a noun.

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ADJECTIVES

NOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

PREPOSITINS

- An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".

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ADVERBS

NOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

PREPOSITINS

- A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

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PREPOSITINS

- NOUNS- READING is useful for learning.- Nouns with the ING forms.

- The BUS is late.- Normal words.

- AHMED usually eats RICE .- Names of people, places or objects.

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VERBS- Ahmed LIKES eating sweets.- Main verb.

- Ahmed IS tall.- Helping verb.

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ADJECTIVES- The university is BEAUTIFUL.

- Ahmed is very TALL.

- The date trees are USEFUL.

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ADVERBS- I’m TOTALLY disappointed.

- Ahmed always walks QUICKLY.

- He has JUST arrived.

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PREPOSITIONS

- I work ON Saturday.

- He put the pen IN the pocket.

- The cat jumped THROUGH the window.

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