Parts of Speech (abbreviated to PoS and sometimes called Word Classes) are the different categories of English words which all work in the same grammatical way: nouns, verbs, prepositions and so on.
This section has articles on all the different parts of speech.
A pronoun, as you all know, is a word which stands in place of another. John kicked the can. He kicked it. However, let’s suppose we wanted to find out the name of the person who kicked the can. We don’t know so we need to use a pronoun which […]
Simply put, Interrogative Adjectives are adjectives which modify a noun (like all adjectives do) and also ask a question. These are the interrogative adjectives: what whose which Any sentence which begins with an interrogative adjective is a question: Which coat is yours? What time is it? Whose car is blocking […]
An Interjection is a word class which generally has no grammatical connection with the rest of the utterances around it and is used to express emotion on the part of the speaker. When written, they often have an exclamation mark to close them. The following are considered as interjections: Pauses […]
An intensifier is a word, usually an adverb, that has little meaning in itself but provides force, intensity or emphasis to another word, again usually an adverb. The basic and most common intensifier in English is very. He’s good; he’s very good. They’re late; they’re very late. Other intensifiers include: […]
Inflection refers to the way we change the form of a word to show different parts of grammar such as voice, person, number, gender, mood, tense or case. A simple example is when we change I to me depending on where it is used in a sentence. The person remains […]