PARTS OF SPEECH
¨ Nouns: A Noun is a name; as in pencil, London, Robert, beauty.
¨ Verbs: A verb is a word which tells us something about a person or thing. It is a ‘telling word’ or a ‘saying word’. It tells us what a person or thing does. It also tells us what a person or thing is or suffers (i.e. has done to it).
¨ Adjectives: An Adjective is a word which adds to the meaning of a Noun, that is, it tells something more about the Noun; as in black cat.
¨ Adverbs: An Adverb is a word which adds something to the meaning of a Verb, an Adjective or another Adverb.
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Examples:
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He speaks loudly.
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She is very good.
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He talks too loudly.
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¨ Indirect Speech: We use Indirect Speech to repeat what another person says.
¨ The Articles: We use the Indefinite Article (‘a’ or ‘an’) before a singular countable noun and the Definite Article (‘the’) for something which is mentioned for the first time.
¨ Pronouns: A Pronoun is a word used for or instead of a Noun; it shows the person or thing without actually giving the name of the person or thing; as in he, she, it, and this.
¨ Prepositions: A Preposition is a word which joins Nouns and Pronouns to other words.
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Examples:
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The book is on the table.
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¨ Conjunctions: A conjunction is a word used to join words or groups of words together; as
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Examples:
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Two and two makes four.
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He is bad but you are good.
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¨ Possession: Possession or ownership makes use of Possessive Nouns (e.g. adding the apostrophe ‘ or ’ s), Possessive Adjectives (e.g. ‘my’) and Possessive Pronouns (e.g. ‘mine’) to show that something belongs to someone or something.
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Introduction 
