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For example, since pronouns are a closed class, there are fairly few pronouns: I, me, my, mine, myself, you, your, yours, yourself, he, him, his, his, himself, she, her, her, hers, herself, it, it, its, its, itself, we, us, our, ours, ourselves, they, them, their, theirs, themselves. On the other hand, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions are closed classes because new words cannot be added easily. Verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and interjections are called open classes because they are parts of speech that can easily add new words. I like apples and oranges, but I don't like grapes. Over links the verb ran to the noun bridge.

Under links the noun dog to the noun table. Slowly describes the verb eat, very describes the adjective hungry and really describes the adverb quickly. The giraffe eats slowly, but when he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. Quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really Two proper nouns are New York City and the name Amelia. Proper nouns are a type of noun that refers to something individual. Pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John Some verbs also have an object, which receives the action. (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, mustĪ verb has a subject, which is a noun performing the action. The most common are these: Part of Speech There are many different word categories: they are called 'lexical categories'.

For example, under this scheme, my is termed a dependent possessive pronoun and mine an i ndependent possessive pronoun.Parts of speech are types of word in grammar.

Some authors who classify both sets of words as "possessive pronouns" or "genitive pronouns" apply the terms dependent/independent or weak/strong to refer, respectively, to my, your, etc. that substitute directly for a noun or noun phrase.

However, unlike most other pronouns, they do not behave grammatically as stand-alone nouns, but instead qualify another noun – as in my book (contrasted with that's mine, for example, where mine substitutes for a complete noun phrase such as my book).įor this reason, other authors restrict the term " possessive pronoun" to the group of words mine, yours etc.

are sometimes classified, along with mine, yours etc., as possessive pronouns or genitive pronouns, since they are the possessive (or genitive) forms of the ordinary personal pronouns I, you etc.

They are also known as possessive adjectives, although the latter term is sometimes used with a wider meaning.Įxamples in English include possessive forms of the personal pronouns, namely: my, your, his, her, its, our and their, but excluding those forms such as mine, yours, ' ours, and theirs that are used as possessive pronouns but not as determiners. Possessive determiners constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. Hmm… not even grammarians agree which part of speech is my in “my book”