This document defines and provides examples of different parts of speech in English including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. Nouns name people, places, things, and ideas. Verbs express actions and states of being and are critical elements of sentences. Adjectives provide more description of nouns, and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, phrases, or clauses. Prepositions link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in sentences. Examples are given for each part of speech to illustrate their usage.

1. Jamal Al-Balushi
Abdullah Al-Nabhani

2. PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUNS
PREPOSITIONS
ADJECTIVES ADVERBS
VERBS

3. NOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITINS
- A noun is a word used to name a
person, animal, place, thing, and
abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first
words which small children learn.
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4. NOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITINS
- The verb is perhaps the most
important part of the sentence. A verb
asserts something about the subject
of the sentence and expresses actions,
events, or states of being. The verb or
compound verb is the critical element
of the predicate of a sentence.
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5. NOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITINS
- An adjective is a word that tells us
more about a noun. It qualifies or
modifies a noun.
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6. NOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITINS
- An adverb can modify a verb, an
adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a
clause. An adverb indicates manner,
time, place, cause, or degree and
answers questions such as "how,"
"when," "where," "how much".
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7. NOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITINS
- A preposition links nouns, pronouns
and phrases to other words in a
sentence. The word or phrase that the
preposition introduces is called the
object of the preposition.
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PREPOSITINS

8. - NOUNS
- READING is useful for learning.
- Nouns with the ING forms.
- The BUS is late.
- Normal words.
- AHMED usually eats RICE .
- Names of people, places or objects.
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9.  VERBS
- Ahmed LIKES eating sweets.
- Main verb.
- Ahmed IS tall.
- Helping verb.
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10.  ADJECTIVES
- The university is BEAUTIFUL.
- Ahmed is very TALL.
- The date trees are USEFUL.
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11.  ADVERBS
- I’m TOTALLY disappointed.
- Ahmed always walks QUICKLY.
- He has JUST arrived.
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12.  PREPOSITIONS
- I work ON Saturday.
- He put the pen IN the pocket.
- The cat jumped THROUGH the window.
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