Parts of Speech

Words are of different kinds, depending on what purpose they are used.

There are 8 parts of speech, their names are:

The noun                             The verb

The adjective                        The pronoun

The adverb                           The conjunction

The preposition                     The interjection  

Each word in a sentence can be classified by its function as being one or the other of those eight parts of speech. And these words make up the parts of speech.