Eight Parts of Speech in English

名词 [míngcí] NOUN: A person, place, or thing. Boy Desk Water Fire Pen Shanghai

形容词 [xínɡrónɡcí ] Adjective: Describes a noun Beautiful Weak Ugly Gentle Boring

动词 [dòngcí] Verb: Action words (also linking and helping verbs: “be” verbs ) Run Spit Stare Eat Cry

副词 [fùcí] Adverb: Words that describe nouns (they usually end in –ly) (How, When, Where, Why) Quickly Happily Well Very There (I will eat there.)

冠词 [guàncí] Article: The, An, A

介词 [jiècí] Preposition: shows the spatial (where something is) relationship, of one word to another Around At On Beside

连词 [liáncí] Conjunction: Words that join two parts of a sentence together For And Nor But Or Yet So

代词 [dàicí] Pronoun: Words that replace nouns Them Yourself We They You Him