What are parts of speech and what are its kinds?

Words are divided into eight parts according to the purpose they are used for. The different sorts of words are called Parts of Speech.

There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The a part of speech indicates how the word functions in meaning also as grammatically within the sentence.

In traditional grammar, a neighborhood of speech may be a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to an equivalent a part of speech generally display similar syntatic behavior—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes similar morphology therein they undergo inflection for similar properties.

Kinds of Words:-

Noun

Pronoun

Adjective

Verb

Adverb

Preposition

Conjunction

Interjection

1. Noun

The name of an individual , place, animal, or thing is named noun.

For example : Sheetal, Mumbai, Dog, Pen, etc.

2. Pronoun

The word which is used in the place of a noun is called pronoun.

For example : I, We, You, They, He, She, etc.

3. Adjective

The word which tells us something more about a noun or pronoun is called an adjective.

For example : Good, Cold, Fat, Brown, etc.

4. Verb

The word which shows an action or a state of being of a person or thing is called verb.

For example : Dance, Play, Laugh, Go, etc.

5. Adverb

The word which modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb is called an adverb.

For example : Slowly, Brightly, Well, Very, etc.

6. Preposition

The word which is placed before a noun or pronoun to show it’s relation with other words of the sentence is called preposition.

For example : At, Near, Under, On, Upon, etc.

7. Conjunction

The word that joins two words, two groups of words or two sentences together is called conjunction.

For example : And, But, Or, Because, etc.

8. Interjection

The word which expresses some sudden feeling in the heart is called interjection.

For example : Alas, Bravo, Oh, Hurrah, etc.