Introduction & Its types: Parts of Speech | English Grammar Class 7 PDF Download

Parts of speech refer to the different categories that words can be grouped into based on their grammatical function within a sentence. There are eight traditional parts of speech in English:

1. Noun

A Noun is a word used as the name of a person, place, or thing. A Noun is a word used as the name of a person, place, or thing.
Examples: 

• The Sun rise in the morning.
• Children love to play cricket.
• Delhi is the capital of India.
• Taj Mahal was not built in one day.

2. Pronoun

A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or noun phrase or noun expression in a sentence. They, we, them, it, you, her, and him are some examples of pronouns.
Examples:

• He is going to their house for a party.
• Our team is traveling to Mysore next week.
• Sheetal is going to fest with them.
• Harry lost his watch in the hall.

3. Adverb

An adverb is a word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective or another adverb that often tells when, where and what conditions something happened at which an action happens in a sentence. Happily, silently, outside, yesterday, daily, and almost are some examples of an adverb.
Examples:

• The class scored better than previously.
• He usually studies and scores well in exams.
• Pallavi almost completes her work on time.
• They sit quietly in the hall.

4. Verb

The verb refers to the word or phrase that defines the action done feeling or an experience in a condition. Action refers as walk, running, talking, sleeping and feelings or experience refers to love, hate, anger, trust, belief, and situations as is, am, was, will be, been etc.
Examples:

• Niharika is good at singing songs.
• Birds are feeding their babies.
• Seema is writing an essay on nature.
• The boys fight in the class during break.

5. Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes the information and provides more information about the person place or thing in a sentence. Beautiful, expensive, kind, hot, old, tight, and tired are some adjectives.
Examples:

• These are my books on the table.
• Is that your purse?
• Niya gave some money to her friend.
• She bought an expensive necklace for her anniversary.

6. Conjunction

A conjunction is the word or phrase that joins sentences together  and connects each other by making a meaningful sentence. But, yet, because, until, both.. and, either… or are some conjunctions.
Examples:

• It was raining heavily so we canceled all our plans.
• Neither Sita nor Karan had completed the work.
• The child waited for his brother for a long time.
• He wanted to attend late night party but his mother did not allow him.

7. Interjection

Interjections are the words for an appearance that takes place on reactions or feelings. It expresses sudden emotional reactions, feeling, requests, and demands. Hush!, Ohh, ah! Bravo!, and Alas! are some interjections.
Examples:

• Ouch! My knee got hurt by the table.
• Yummy! She made the food tasty.
• Oh! I forgot to bring my purse.
• Hurrah! My sister won the quiz competition.

8. Preposition

A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between a noun and another word in a sentence. On, at, in, before, through, down, near are some words for prepositions.
Examples:

• The kite fly high above in the sky.
• The meeting will be held on Saturday.
• The boy standing behind us will not leave until his sister come.
• The school is near the temple.