Parts of Speech

PRONOUNS

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun and there are eight types: personal, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, reciprocal and indefinite.

Personalpronouns refer to people or things. Examples are I, she, he, their and ours.Theyare going to the opera.Herhair color is horrible.

Arelativepronoun is usually associated with adjective clauses and sometimes noun clauses. A few examples would be who, which and what. The man,whoclutched the book to his chest, yelled at the child.

Interrogativepronouns introduce questions and examples are Who?, What? and Where?Whichhouse does Brad Pitt live in?Whenare we going to fuck?

Ademonstrativepronoun introduces the antecedent. The antecedent is a word that takes the place of a pronoun and some examples are those and these.Thisis my sister.Thoseare my shoes.

AReflexivepronoun refers back to the subject of the sentence while anintensivepronoun intensifies a noun or pronoun. Some examples are myself, itself and themselves. Used in a reflexive manner, an example would be, He askedhimselfa stupid question. Used in an intensive manner, an example is, Weourselvesenjoyed watching the fight.

Reciprocalpronouns refer back to single parts of a plural antecedent. Examples are each other and one another. The girls slatheredeach otherwith whipped cream.

Finally, anindefinitepronoun represents a person, place or thing that is not specified and can be singular or plural. Some examples of singular pronouns are neither, somebody and either and plural examples are few and several. There are a few that rely on the other parts of the sentence to determine if they are singular or plural and examples of these are none, some, any, all and most.

Someoneneeds to talk to him, is an example of a singular indefinite pronoun. An example of a plural indefinite pronoun would be,Bothof the women were beautiful. Two examples of indefinite pronouns that require other sentence parts to determine if singular or plural: Some of the breads are edible; some of the bread is edible.

ADJECTIVES

An adjective is a word that provides description to a noun and can be possessive, demonstrative, interrogative and indefinite. A simple example is, Theblueballoon floated over the wall. In some circles, articles such asa,anandtheare considered to be adjectives.

Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative and indefinite adjectives are often similar to pronouns.Myhead is an example of a possessive adjective;Thisman is an example of a demonstrative adjective;Whichtemple is an example of an interrogative adjective andAnymeat is an example of an indefinite adjective.

ADVERBS

An adverb is a word that is used to modify or lends description to adjectives, verbs and sometimes, other adverbs. Most adverbs end in -ly and will answer how, when or where. Some examples arequickly,alwaysandnever. Adverbs can also be used in a conjunctive fashion and are used to join clauses together.Howeverandthereforeare some well-used conjunctive adverbs.

PREPOSITIONS

A preposition is a word that links words to other words in a sentence, most usually pronouns, nouns and phrases. There are quite a few words that are classified as prepositions and just a few examples areon,above,in,behind,below,intoandwith. Words that follow the preposition are generally known as being part of a prepositional phrase, such aswithinthe bedroom andsincethe fall.

CONJUNCTIONS

I don't think anyone will ever forget Schoolhouse Rock's famous "Conjunction Junction" song. The producers of the show used men working in a train yard to illustrate the function of a conjunction. A conjunction is a word that connects words, phrases and/clauses and there are two types: coordinating and subordinating.

The most commonly usedcoordinatingconjunctions areand,butandor. The combinations ofeither/or,both/andandnot only/but alsoare also examples of coordinating conjunctions. Asubordinatingconjunction is a conjunction that forms a subordinate clause and connects it with the main sentence. Some examples of subordinating conjunctions arewho,which,although,becauseandthough.

An example of coordinating conjunction usage would be, I like cornandpotatoes. An example of subordinating conjunction usage would be,Sinceyou've been gone, I've been a bad girl.

INTERJECTIONS

An interjection is a word or group of words that are usually followed by an exclamation mark.Stop!is a good example of an interjection.