parts of speech
there are eight parts of speech verb noun adjective adverb pronoun interjection conjunction preposition these allow us to structure a grammatically correct sentence as each has a different function within a sentence verb a verb describes an action or experience for example run walk push eat Sophie ran to school because she was late the verb in this sentence is ran John loves to bake cookies the verb in this sentence is baked noun a noun names a person place things or ideas for example house teacher cup shot my teacher is a very nice person their noun in this sentence is teacher a my is going to go on holiday to china there are two nouns in this sentence the first noun is Amy because it's a person's name the second noun is China because it is a the name of a place adjectives an adjective describes a noun or a pronoun for example short beautiful red old Fatima has a huge house with six bedrooms the adjective in this sentence is huge because they are desc