English PoS

Interjection

  • Definition: A word that expresses strong feelings and/or emotions.

  • Examples: Yahoo!, WOW, YES!, Hoova!, OMG!

Conjunction

  • Definition: A word that connects words, phrases, and clauses.

  • Examples: and, or, but, nor

Preposition

  • Definition: A word that relates a noun or pronoun to another part of the sentence.

  • Examples: in, through, on, between, above, below, around

Noun

  • Definition: A person, place, thing, or idea.

  • Examples: Jake, Nash, New York, Alabama, dog, love, hate

Verb

  • Definition: A word that describes what the subject of a sentence is doing.

  • Examples: run, walk, jump, sing, drink, cry, give, make, teach

Pronoun

  • Definition: A word that stands in for a noun.

  • Examples: he, she, it, them, they, we, who, your, yours, her, his

Adjective

  • Definition: A word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.

  • Examples: good, bad, big, small, happy, sad, open, closed, old, new

Adverb

  • Definition: A word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or an entire sentence.

  • Examples: slowly, always, boldly, carefully, here

FANBOYS

  • Acronym for coordinating conjunctions:

  • For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So