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CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THE PARTS OF SPEECH BRIEFLY?

There are eight parts of speech. Words are categorized into different parts of speech according to the role they perform in a sentence. 
 

1. An interjection is a word that expresses a sudden feeling or emotion. 

For example:

Hurray!

Alas!

2. A verb is a word that tells us about an action or the state of a person or thing. 

For example: 

eat

walk

3. An adjective is a word that describes or qualifies a noun or a pronoun. 

For example: 

tall

beautiful

4. A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, idea or quality. 

For example:

Ram

bag


5. A conjunction is a word that is used to join two words, phrases or sentences. 

For example:

and

but

6. An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, an adjective or other adverb. 

For example:

loudly

often

7. A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun. 

For example:

he

I

8. A Preposition is a word that is used before a noun or a pronoun to denote its relation with to another word or element. 

For example:

on

at 

 

Hope this helps!

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YOU BLOODY FELLOW , DONT KNOW THE ANSWER OF SUCH A SIMPLE QUESTION.

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 she should not tell like this

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You bloody kajal hang and die

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Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech.

part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences
Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com.
Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.
Adjective describes a noun a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.
Adverb describes a verb, adjective or adverb quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.
Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
Preposition links a noun to another word to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday.
Conjunction joins clauses or sentences or words and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.
Interjection short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.
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Follow the mentioned link for a comprehensive understanding of the parts of speech:

https://www.meritnation.com/ask-answer/question/please-explain-about-the-parts-of-speech/english/2447295

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There are EIGHT parts of speech. They are as follows:-

 1. Noun: a part of speech inflected for case, signifying a concrete or abstract entity

2. Verb: a part of speech without case inflection, but inflected for tense, person and number, signifying an activity or process performed or undergone
3. Participle: a part of speech sharing the features of the verb and the noun
4. Interjection: a part of speech expressing emotion alone
5. Pronoun: a part of speech substitutable for a noun and marked for a person
6. Preposition: a part of speech placed before other words in composition and in syntax
7. Adverb: a part of speech without inflection, in modification of or in addition to a verb, adjective, clause, sentence, or other adverb
8. Conjunction: a part of speech binding together the discourse and filling gaps in its interpretation
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 There are EIGHT parts of speech. 

1--NOUN- a noun is the name of any thing person ,any place

2--PRONOUN-a pronoun is used in the place of the noun for example- he or she

3--VERB--a vrb is the doing of work

4--ADVERB-- an adverb is used in the place of a verb

5--ADJECTIVE-- sorry but i dont know this

6--PREPOSITION-- this is placed before other word in composition

7--CONJUNCTION-- it is the one which combines sentences like for example -and ,or ,in

8--INTERJECTION-- it is used for expressing emotion.

hope this helps you. and sorry that my answering is very late.

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