The Eight Classes
1) Nouns - Words taking the form of a person, a place, a thing..etc.
Example: - blog, computer, woman, Brooke, football, fruits, Canada, Mauritius
2) Pronouns - Words that can designate things or people without having to name them specifically
Example: - you, them, I, who, themselves, somebody, someone
3) Adjectives - Words that qualify a noun to give a more precise meaning
Example: - a glamorous woman - a clamorous weather - an empty bag
4) Verbs - Words helping us to express or indicate an action, a state or occurrence of an object
Example: - I feel hungry - Jeremy was fat - Summer brings warmth
5) Adverbs - Words used alongside verbs, except nouns and pronouns, to enhance the meaning of a sentence
- Help to answer the following questions: When, Where, How and Why
Example: - He will soon arrive - Darren is going there - Chow eats rather quickly - FIFA therefore suspends this player
6) Preposition - Words used to express the relationship between objects
- Used with nouns and pronouns
Example: - I wrote a letter to Skellie - The letter went by air mail - Rooney lives near Lorie
7) Conjunctions - Words used to connect or join phrases, sentences or words
Example: - I make a great effort to write articles on this blog because I love sharing knowledge - Problogger and Darren Rowse are interlinked
8) Interjections - Words used to express feelings and emotions
- Do not fall into the syntactical construction of a sentence nor forming an actual part of it
- Generally followed by an exclamation mark
Example: - Eureka! bravo! - ah! bah! - alas!