Instead of saying 'The Earl of Sandwich introduced the Earl of Sandwich's favorite food, the sandwich', one uses the pronoun his to replace 'the Earl of Sandwich's' to make the sentence not repeat itself when it doesn't have to, thus the sentence becomes 'The Earl of Sandwich introduced his favorite food, the sandwich'. Since pronouns are used to replace whole noun phrases, there is no need to have many kinds of pronouns. For example, since pronouns are a closed class, there are fairly few pronouns: I, me, my, mine, myself, you, your, yours, yourself, he, him, his, his, himself, she, her, her, hers, herself, it, it, its, its, itself, we, us, our, ours, ourselves, they, them, their, theirs, themselves. On the other hand, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions are closed classes because new words cannot be added easily. Verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and interjections are called open classes because they are parts of speech that can easily add new words. I like apples and oranges, but I don't like grapes. Over links the verb ran to the noun bridge. Under links the noun dog to the noun table.

Slowly describes the verb eat, very describes the adjective hungry and really describes the adverb quickly. The giraffe eats slowly, but when he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. Quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really Two proper nouns are New York City and the name Amelia. Proper nouns are a type of noun that refers to something individual. Pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John Some verbs also have an object, which receives the action. (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, mustĪ verb has a subject, which is a noun performing the action. The most common are these: Part of Speech There are many different word categories: they are called 'lexical categories'. Parts of speech are types of word in grammar.

What part of speech is the word of