8.18: Outcome: Other Parts of Speech

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Explain the function of other parts of speech, including adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and articles

A person struggling to hold four boxes, one labelled adjectives and adverbs, one labelled conjunction, one preposition, and one article. He's saying "Uh, what should I do with these?" Now that we’ve learned about the most common parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, and verbs), we’re ready to move onto the other parts of speech.

First we have adjectives and adverbs, which modify other words: they change our understanding of things. For example, compare the phrase “the bear” to “the red bear” or the phrase “run” to “run slowly.” In both of these cases, the adjective (red) or adverb (slowly) changes how we understand the phrase. When you first read the word bear, you probably didn’t imagine a red bear. When you saw the word run you probably didn’t think of it as something done slowly.

We also have the little connecting word categories: conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. These small words may not seem as important as verbs, nouns, and adjectives, but they are the backbone of English: these are the words that give our language structure.

What You Will Learn to Do

Explain the use of adjectives
Explain the use of adverbs
Explain the use of conjunctions
Explain the use of prepositions
Explain the use of articles

Outcome: Other Parts of Speech. Provided by: Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution
Image of man with boxes. Authored by: Kim Louie for Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution