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Parts of Speech | Kerala PSC LDC
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How many parts of speech does English have?
Traditional English grammar recognises eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection. Knowing all eight is a basic requirement for Kerala PSC LDC grammar questions.
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Interjections show sudden emotion
An interjection is a word that expresses a sudden feeling, such as 'Alas!', 'Oh!' or 'Hurrah!'. It is usually set apart from the rest of the sentence by an exclamation mark or a comma.
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FANBOYS: the coordinating conjunctions
The seven coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so, often remembered as FANBOYS. They join words, phrases or clauses of equal grammatical rank.
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The same word can be two different parts of speech
'Her' is a possessive adjective in 'her book' but a personal pronoun in 'I saw her'. Exam questions often test this, so identify the word by its role in the sentence, not by its spelling alone.
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A gerund is a verb acting as a noun
A gerund is the -ing form of a verb used as a noun, as in 'Swimming is good exercise.' Here 'swimming' is the subject of the sentence.
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Collective nouns name groups
A collective noun names a group of people, animals or things, such as 'a herd' of cattle, 'a flock' of birds or 'a team' of players. Such questions are common in English grammar tests.
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Articles are classed as adjectives in traditional grammar
The words 'a', 'an' and 'the' are called articles. In traditional grammar they are treated as a type of adjective; 'the' is the definite article and 'a' or 'an' is the indefinite article.
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Be, have and do: the main auxiliary verbs
The primary auxiliary verbs in English are 'be', 'have' and 'do', which help form tenses, questions and negatives. For example, 'She is reading' uses 'is' as an auxiliary.
