The 8 Parts of Speech in English Grammar Free PDF Quiz

hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy today we are going back to basics we are looking at the building blocks of spoken english i'm going to be talking to you about the eight parts of speech every single word you say has role within sentence every single word is part of speech today we're going to be breaking it down and looking at each one it makes up nearly everything that we say in english so we might as well get it right from the very beginning as always there is free pdf that goes with today's lesson it's got everything we're going to talk about today plus quiz know you love quizzes to test your learning if you'd like to download that just click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list and the pdf will arrive directly in your inbox and then every week after that you will automatically receive my weekly lesson pdfs plus all of my news course offers and updates let's talk about the first part of speech in my opinion the most important nouns these are the bread and butter of our speech which is ironic because bread and butter are both nouns noun is something that names something such as person an idea or thing in sentence noun can play the role of subject an indirect object direct object subject complement an object complement and positive or an adjective there are so many different types of nouns they can name people such as girl taylor swift my dad they can name place mountain spain the kitchen they can also name things activities concepts processes ideas such as love rugby shorts knowledge actually have video on the 100 most important nouns in british english will link to that video in the description box it's quite good one if you want to quickly acquire lot of vocabulary let's move on to the second part of speech pronouns pronoun is word that's used instead of noun or noun phrase you use them when the reader or listener already knows the specific noun that you're referring to if tell story for example about my fiance william it will get so boring and repetitive if just say the noun william over and over again let's try let's see how it sounds william is my fiancee william is extremely tall william told me that william wants to marry me it makes me sound obsessed and weird to be honest and very repetitive let's try it with lovely pronoun instead william's my fiance he's very tall he told me he wants to marry me it sounds little better less obsessive less boring now there are quite few different types of pronouns and some pronouns are found in more than one category will present you with some of the most common we have the personal pronouns me you she her he him us we they them we also have the demonstrative pronouns love the word demonstrative it sounds posh they are that this these and those we also have indefinite pronouns and these are used when the person or thing doesn't need to be specifically identified for example one other everybody anybody nobody an example everybody loves my homemade brownies or some love marmite others hate it other types include interrogative pronouns like who what which and whose progressive pronouns like my your there who's reflexive and intensive pronouns like myself yourself themselves and relative pronouns like whom what which let's move on to part of speech number three adjectives these might be my favorite actually these are the words that describe nouns an adjective can go right before the noun it's describing for example my orange cat but it doesn't have to for example my cat is orange now one of the most important things that you can learn when it comes to adjectives is adjective order feel like this is sneaky secret that's like the key to fluency only certain people know about this and once they learn it they're like my word it's so secret that many native speakers don't even know they're using it but when you present them with this information they are blown away because everyone follows the same order without even thinking about it we're not taught this in school made video all about this again will link it in the description box but i'll give you quick summary from one to ten the order in which we naturally say adjectives number one opinion ugly beautiful number two size big tall number three physical quality neat rough four shape for example round or square number five age old new number six color pink orange number seven origin egyptian japanese eight material plastic leather nine type unisex four legged for example and number ten purpose sewing cooking for example so would talk about my beautiful brown leather suitcase or my big black indian cooking pot i've got little homework task for you using what you've just learnt there would like you to write three sentences using the correct adjective order describing three things that you can see from where you are right now please put that in the comment section okay part of speech number four verbs listen to me write what you hear learn to speak everything that is in bold here is verb we use them all the time verbs are words that describe actions we have dynamic or action verbs that describe literal actions like walking running singing we also have stative verbs that refer to feelings and states like to love to think to feel auxiliary verbs are used in english to change another verbs mood voice or tense this is why they're referred to as helping verbs the main auxiliary verbs are be have and do we also have modal auxiliary verbs commonly called modals or modal verbs these are big pain point for many students learning english because they're so annoying they are they are annoying modals are added to another verb to show capability or possibility or necessity as well common examples are may might must can could should and shall and would and will ought is also an important one too made video very very long time ago about modal verbs so you can click on it to laugh about how young was think was 21. yeah was 21 when started teaching english on youtube and i'm now can you believe that and by the time this video comes out will be married i'm not married right now but yes my wedding hopefully will have passed will put link to that modals video in the description box but maybe that's something ought modal verb to recreate soon let me know if you'd like video about modal verbs one last part of this segment phrasal verbs hear you groan i've heard you all grown everyone seems to find phrasal verbs so annoying and they are they're really really frustrating but really enjoy teaching them these are phrases that act as single verb they usually consist of verb and preposition have made so many videos over the years about phrasal verbs i'll list few of my favorites in the description box down below as well right number five let's talk about adverbs an adverb is word that describes an adjective verb another adverb or even sentence have look at these examples gently lifted him out of bed here the adverb is describing the verb he is more interesting than you that is an unusually tall tree there the adverb is describing the adjective unfortunately we had already left unfortunately the adverb is describing the whole sentence okay let's move on to prepositions another topic that learners of english tend to find quite tricky preposition is word that tells you when or where something is in relation to something else it tells you the relationship between words in sentence put my bag on the table sat beside the wall my birthday is on monday now let's take this opportunity to bust myth hate this myth so much it annoys me all the time have lots of students and viewers in my comments section telling me off because they've been mistaught about this myth by their teachers some people are adamant that you should never end sentence with preposition and they are wrong and teachers say this and it bugs me what do you think sounds more natural where do you come from or from where do you come from where do you come it sounds beautiful for game of thrones where do you come from from being preposition at the end of sentence sounds absolutely fine that's where you went to what else am meant to say that is to where you went no an example are you going to the party don't know who i'm going with you could say don't know with whom i'm going but it's just too formal so yes there are many occasions when using preposition to end sentence is wrong especially in formal writing or formal speech don't let parents make you scared to speak part of speech number seven conjunctions conjunction is word that's used to connect clauses sentences or words together firstly let's look at coordinating conjunctions they allow us to join words phrases or clauses of equal rank the most common coordinating conjunctions are fanboys no literally for and nor but or yet so fanboys that's great way to remember them here we have two sentences or clauses of equal rank had terrible headache still went to school we can join them together with coordinating clause had terrible headache but still went to school we also have correlative conjunctions these are pairs that work together like either and or or neither and nor want either the beef or the turkey roast there are also subordinating conjunctions which join dependent and an independent clause common subordinating conjunctions are because since as although though while or whilst and whereas ate dinner because was hungry drove while talking on the phone finally we have number eight the eighth part of speech the articles very important part of speech the definite article is the word the it limits the meaning of noun to one particular thing give me the ticket am talking about specific ticket that both of us know about the ticket not ticket not another ticket the ticket the indefinite article is or an when it precedes word that begins with consonant or it is an or un when it precedes word that begins with vowel the indefinite article indicates that noun refers to general thing general idea rather than specific thing can you pass me an apple note that said an because it starts with vowel sound should bring bottle of wine tonight not the bottle of wine should bring the bottle of wine implies that it's very special bottle of wine that we both know about no bottle of wine any bottle of wine right that is it for my lesson on the eight parts of speech hope you enjoyed it and hope you learned something now it's time for you to complete the quiz if you'd like to complete the quiz just download the pdf all you've got to do is click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address sign up to my mailing list and it comes directly to your inbox don't forget to check out the sponsor of today's video nordvpn just head to nordvpn.com lucy don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media i've got my instagram my website englishwithlucy.co.uk where i've got fabulous pronunciation tool you can click on 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