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What are the eight parts of speech and give examples?

Here are the eight parts of speech, along with examples:

1. Noun: A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

* Person: *teacher, student, friend*

* Place: *school, park, city*

* Thing: *book, table, phone*

* Idea: *love, freedom, happiness*

2. Pronoun: A word that replaces a noun.

* I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them, mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs

Example: *The teacher gave the students their assignments. (Students is the noun, they is the pronoun)*

3. Verb: A word that describes an action or a state of being.

* Action: *run, jump, sing, write, eat*

* State of being: *is, are, was, were, be, seem, become*

Example: *The dog barks loudly.*

4. Adjective: A word that describes a noun or pronoun.

* Size: *big, small, tiny, huge*

* Color: *red, blue, green, yellow*

* Shape: *round, square, triangular*

* Other qualities: *happy, sad, exciting, dangerous*

Example: *The tall building stands on the busy street.*

5. Adverb: A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

* How: *quickly, slowly, carefully, happily*

* When: *now, later, yesterday, soon*

* Where: *here, there, everywhere, nowhere*

* To what extent: *very, extremely, quite, somewhat*

Example: *The dog barks loudly.*

6. Preposition: A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.

* Location: *on, in, under, over, beside, behind*

* Direction: *to, from, toward, away from*

* Time: *before, after, during, since*

Example: *The cat sat on the table.*

7. Conjunction: A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses.

* Coordinating: *and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so*

* Subordinating: *because, since, although, while, if, unless*

Example: *I went to the store and bought some milk.*

8. Interjection: A word or phrase that expresses strong emotion.

* Wow! Ouch! Oh no! Help! Hooray!

Example: * Ouch! That hurt! *

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