Parts of Speech

The parts of speech shall be eight in number:

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
   
3. Verb
4. Adjective
5. Adverb
6. Preposition
7. Conjunction
8. Interjection

Noun: a person, place or thing. (From the latin nomen for name.)

• This can be a concrete person, place, or thing or it can be an abstract person, place, or thing, like a concept or embodiment of virtue or vice etc.. For example:
  
  The hegemony of the United States of America is unquestionably good.
  The nouns in this sentence are hegemony and United States of America.
  

Pronoun: a word that stands for a noun and all it's modifiers. Pronouns shall be divided into seven basic types:

1. Personal: I, she, he, you, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them
   
2. Possessive: my, your, yours, his, hers, her, its, our, ours, their, theirs
   
3. Reflexive: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
   
4. Intensive: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
5. Relative: who, whom, whatever, whenever, whichever, whose, which, that, whoever, whomever
   
6. Interrogative:  who, whom, whose, what, which
   
7. Demonstrative: this, that, these, those
   
8. Indefinite: all, any,anyone, anybody, anything, another, something, someone, somebody, some, somewhere, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, many, more, most, much, neither, nobody, no one, none, one, several, few, half, etc.

Verb: an action.

• Action verbs include the gamut of words describing actions past, present, and future.
• Linking verbs link the subject to something after the verb
• Helping verbs accompany main verbs
• Modals subgroup of helping verbs
  

Adjective: a word that modifies a noun


Adverb: a word that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb


Preposition: word that indicates a connection from a noun to another word


Conjunction: words used to join


Interjection: words that express surprise or strong emotion