Parts of Speech in English | Learning English | Breaking English

hey everybody we're going to talk about the parts of speech in this video this video can be helpful for anybody who just wants to improve their writing when you know how to play around with different forms of words you'll be able to express yourself in a more meaningful and creative way so knowing the parts of speech will help you do that but also knowing the parts of speech will help your grammar so for example would i say this tea is delicious or this tea is deliciously is it delicious or deliciously it should be delicious because we're describing the t and the t is a noun it's a thing and to describe a thing or a noun we need to use an adjective the adjective is delicious deliciously is an adverb adverbs describe other things like verbs and i'll talk about that in this video so here we are parts of speech let's talk about them now okay so these are the parts of speech we will review in this video nouns verbs adjectives adverbs articles pronouns prepositions and interjections and i'm going to try to be very concise and clear with some examples for each one here we go all right everyone so we're going to start with the noun first a noun is basically a person place thing or idea as i listed up here so what is that a person can be anyone a person's name right it could be jamie my name it could be my mom that's a person too that's not her name but that is the word the noun that is used for for who she is it could be a place a place like home school or a name of a place like ucla is the name of a school it could be a thing a thing like marker right or paper okay and some of those things are countable like one marker two markers one paper two papers no paper a lot of paper a little bit of paper right so that's the other thing with nouns is pay attention to whether it's countable or non-count and then of course we have idea nouns idea nouns are ones you can't really touch or see but you can feel them like love or happiness or sadness right okay and and usually these idea nouns not always but usually they're non-count also okay so look at this sentence the cup has tea in it okay let's see if we can find the nouns in this sentence okay do we have any people places things or ideas well here we have a thing the cup so i'm going to just underline that there's a noun has t in it okay do you see anything else that could be a noun yep t t is a thing as well and then in it we're gonna talk about it later okay it it makes sense that you think it's a noun it refers to the cup right but we're going to talk about what that is in a little bit okay so here we have two nouns all right look at this sentence i drink tea daily okay i can say that's a noun there is another word for it which we'll talk about later okay but that that's works and then t there's another noun so here we have our nouns we're going to talk about why these things are not nouns as you go through this video but this is just a little little review of each each part of speech okay so let's talk about verbs verbs are actions or states i know that doesn't really help but let me explain in action and action is pretty simple to understand and action is where let's imagine this is a picture and what am i doing in this picture what can you see me doing right now okay you see me blinking okay there's an action you see me moving my arms that's an action you see me talking that's an action okay breathing that's an action those are verbs okay and people or things or animals do these actions okay now the state a state can also be a verb but those are a little bit harder to recognize so i like to explain it to my students like this a state is something that you can't really see in a picture so look at me right now can you see that i am being a person no i just am so usually for state verbs stative verbs we say they're also usually non-action verbs verbs that describe our state so you can't see it in a picture you cannot see me being a person i just am a person or you see that i can you see that i know what i'm talking about or you know can you see me see it happening no it's just i i know i hope i know what i'm talking about um or understand if you write a question and i'm looking at your question can you see that i understand your question by the way i look or is that just that's a state okay so i don't usually say i'm understanding right now i'm understanding uh your question i would say i understand your question or i know you not i'm knowing you or i am a person not i am being a person so state verbs are a little bit hard to recognize but you can try to think of them as um as verbs things that are happening that you can't see inside of somebody so like the way you feel or something that you're thinking okay um and it is a little complicated okay so it is helpful to know about um action and non-action verbs to learn this okay um but that's how i like to explain it is a state is often not always an action versus a non-action verb situation so action verb non-action verb action i am talking i understand i uh i'm breathing um i uh like something right i like grammar okay that's a non-action verb okay so let's look at some examples in these sentences and try to find the verbs all right the cup has tea in it okay so a trick for you is a verb always comes after a noun because a verb is something that a noun usually does or is okay so look we have a noun here and we have a noun here so do you see any actions or states after those nouns the t hat the cup has t in it this is the verb and it's actually a non-action verb or you could say it's a state it's just to simplify things um you can't say i am having a cup of tea right or you can't say the cup is having tea in it that's because have is a non-action verb it's non-action okay because we're talking about possession but that is a verb okay and the cup is the one that has it okay the cup is doing this action or that is being this state okay here i drink tea daily okay so here we have a clear action do you see it drink that's easier to find that is the verb okay and who's doing the verb i okay so you always need to have something doing that verb okay so another word for this noun is a subject okay and i will talk about that in another video called uh parts of a sentence if you want to review the parts of the sentence this one is on parts of speech so the parts of a sentence but um but yeah when you have a verb before it you always need to have a subject and subjects are always nouns all right let's talk about adjectives next i love adjectives adjectives are words that just describe nouns they give more information about any noun but you have to remember what a noun is let's review a noun is a person place thing or idea right like a marker what kind of marker is it how can we describe this marker and make it more specific we can tell the color of it a black marker or the type dry erase marker those words describe the noun so they are adjectives okay here in my sentences let's see if we find any adjectives the cup has t in it well we have nouns but do we have any information about what kind of nouns those are like any description of them no we don't so this is where i always tell students okay make your writing more descriptive by just throwing in some adjectives to describe the nouns that you have in your sentence because you always have nouns in your sentence sentence you don't always have adjectives but you should if you want to make your writing more descriptive okay so let's talk about this sentence and let's make it more descriptive by adding an adjective before each now here's the cup of tea what color is this cup well actually whoa it's the same color as my earrings and my shirt anybody know it's actually one of my favorite colors turquoise turquoise um how do we spell that let's write it down here what are we going to describe as turquoise the cup right the tur boys so just add it right there before the noun in english most adjectives come before a noun not all of them okay uh yeah the turquoise cup has tea in it what kind of tea um well it's actually black tea okay or chai to be specific it's chai so here now i have an even more descriptive sentence the turquoise cup has chai tea in it so if i want to find adjectives i can ask myself well where are the nouns in the sentence okay cup t and then i ask myself what kind of cup is it and the answer is the adjective a turquoise cup what kind of tea is it chai tea these are adjectives now sometimes adjectives can be nouns okay like i have a garden outside okay what kind of garden is it it's a vegetable garden vegetable is a noun by itself but if you put it before a noun like garden it becomes an adjective okay and other adjectives are are participle adjectives words that describe the effect that someone feels or that something has on it after something is done like i am confused edie i am confused by parts of speech that's the effect that this video has on me that's an adjective or maybe i can say parts of speech are confusing confusing is an adjective too that is the cause of what is the the cause is this video this video is causing me to be confused it's causing confusion it is confusing if that's confusing go ahead and watch that video on participle adjectives because participle adjectives are a monster and they need their own video actually because they're pretty tricky okay uh but i wanted to let you know that those are different there's different types of adjectives another type of adjective are the adjectives that start with word letters a like asleep awake for some reason i forgot why okay but i remember learning about it some adjectives that start with the letter a these types of adjectives describe a person right i i am asleep or i am awake right they describe a person but they always come after a verb okay and which means they come after a noun i am awake right the baby is asleep okay so they they might they come in a different place than you would see here okay all right so those are some other types of adjectives that you need to look out for but the point is you were always looking for the noun and when you find a noun you say what kind of noun is this and if you can find the answer to it that means you have found the adjective again like cup what kind of cup turquoise tea what kind of tea chai okay how about over here i drink tea daily okay so we only have one real noun in this sentence we'll talk about what this is later one real noun we already know it's chai tea um let's use a different adjective let's describe what it tastes like i drink delicious tea daily okay so what kind of tea delicious tea that's an adjective but before we move on just to give you an example of what i mean by the adjectives that don't come before nouns let's look at these i was asleep but now i'm awake okay these words asleep they describe they are adjectives but what are they describing you have to look for the noun or the person or the place or the thing or the idea and the only real noun you have here is a person i so i was asleep this describes i okay but now i'm awake awake describes i as well and i can keep going and say now i feel or am rested it was uh nice to rest okay another thing is be careful with the types of verbs that you see being used when an adjective comes after a verb because as i said most adjectives in english come before a noun okay before the noun but not always and that's usually when we have the type of adjective that we use with what's called a linking verb a linking verb a verb that links okay the subject to the um adjective all right so these are types of linking verbs okay we're verbs like be i am right i am tired uh feel i feel alive right or became i became uh interested in this okay so these are linking verbs so a lot of times after a linking verb you will have a um adjective after it okay and i hear um even native speakers getting confused with this so i want to let you know what what's happening a lot of times i hear people say i feel badly about something okay maybe they said something mean to someone and then later they feel they say badly and the reason why they're adding l-y to make it an adverb which we're going to talk about soon is because they think they're describing a verb all right i'll write it down i feel badly they'll put l y l y is usually what we use for an adverb and they put it because this is a verb feel i feel that's an action right or state okay but in reality this is a linking verb it's linking this and this together so in in fact this word should not be an adverb it should be an adjective because we're describing the person over here i feel bad bad is absolutely 100 correct it is not correct to say i feel badly although people totally understand what you're saying if you say it it's called an over correction but you will be right if whenever you use a linking verb and an adjective after it not an effort okay all right so let's talk about adverbs all right so adverbs adverbs are a little bit tricky because there's so much going on with them and they do so much but here we go adverbs describe i like to use the word describe they describe verbs so they tell us more about verbs i run how do i run i run slowly i run quickly these are adverbs adverbs describe adjectives okay so t what kind of tea the delicious tea okay delicious it's an adjective let's describe that adjective the um very delicious tea we can say okay or the wonderfully delicious tea okay also they describe other adverbs okay so we know that those adverbs usually end with an l y so we say i drink tea slowly how slowly i drink tea very slowly i drink tea extremely slowly okay and then they do a lot more and we'll talk about that a little bit in this video but here let's look at the sentences that we already have so the turquoise cup has chai tea in it okay so let's try to add some adverbs there are not any adverbs in this sentence yet because we don't have um well there technically is an adverb in there but we're not going to get into that um because it's too technical but we're going to add the type of adverb that we have up there listed okay so the turquoise cup okay now let's try to find an adjective and add an adverb to it okay so here's an adjective turquoise okay so we want to describe the turquoise so we want to say something about the turquoise how turquoise is it okay you can say it's um you know beautifully turquoise or it's extremely turquoise or it's very turquoise or it's really turquoise okay so these words describe adjectives they tell us how much of an adjective something is okay so the very turquoise the really turquoise the quite turquoise cup okay and that's an adverb all right so it's describing that adjective okay over here we have an adjective as well but it's a little bit harder to describe this adjective for some reason i was thinking about it and i couldn't find an adverb to really describe it what would work better in this case would be to just add another adjective in front of it or after it okay because you can do that with adjectives you can make a list of them okay like i can say the very turquoise cup has um delicious chai tea in it or i can say it has delicious black chai tea in it but you'll notice if i'm gonna add a list of adjectives they all come before that noun okay and i'm putting commas between them because it's a list of items in a series okay if it's just two adjectives you can also put a comma okay or you can put the word and okay but you can't always put the word and that's the other tricky thing okay um also when you get a long list of adjectives there's a specific order which i'm not going to get into but it's another confusing thing about english that there's a particular order of how to list adjectives when you're putting more than one in a row like is the color the type the feel the texture all that the origin we're not going to get into that but i'm sure there's a ton of resources out there for you here we have them in the correct order the delicious black chai tea is the correct order if i said the delicious um if i said the chai delicious black tea it it's just not right okay because there's a specific order okay so yeah taste color i guess uh origin okay now i drink delicious tea daily okay now here let's find the type of adverb that describes a verb because we have an action over here we just had a state verb it's really hard to describe a state verb with an adverb because you just i don't want to say you can't because there's so many exceptions you probably could it's easier to describe an action verb with an adverb okay so here's the verb i drink how do i drink how do i drink do i drink quickly slowly methodically how do i do it okay and where do we put it i slowly drink or i drink slowly delicious tea right well here i would in this sentence because i have more coming after the verb okay i would put slowly here okay i slowly drink delicious tea daily okay so here the word slowly is an adverb oops it's an adverb and it's describing this verb it's telling the reader or the listener how i drink okay here we have an adjective we can describe this adjective with an adverb as well what do we want to say i slowly drink you know extremely delicious tea okay here's an adverb you don't want to get too crazy and add too many adverbs and too many adjectives and it just goes overboard and it becomes what a lot of people say as it sounds like fluff like you're adding too much you want to be careful with when you choose to use descriptive words like adjectives and adverbs all right here uh i solely drink extremely delicious tea daily daily is technically an adverb as well okay it tells us uh when whenever there's a word that tells you like time or frequency you know when something happens the day it happens the time it happens um and or how often it happens these are actually adverbs as well but we don't need to really get into that i'm i'm specifically talking about these three one that we haven't talked about yet is this one adverbs that describe other adverbs so here all we have to do is find an adverb in the sentences one two three right now let's add an adverb to these adverbs now this would be way overboard but sometimes we want to say really really really really really really really something or very very very right okay so the very turquoise cup okay i can add another adverb before this adverb and i could say the really very turquoise cup it's really very turquoise that's an adverb two adverb describing an amber and an adverb describing an adjective whoa that's a little overboard but sometimes when i'm talking i'll be i'll talk like that when i'm writing i i don't need to i don't do that uh slowly i slowly drink tea okay how slowly really slowly very slowly quite slowly ridiculously slowly right you can use any adverb here really to describe how slowly okay um so here all right ridiculous i ridiculously slowly so how slowly ridiculously slowly drink delicious tea so this ridiculously word is this is an adverb describing one adverb slowly and slowly is describing the verb drink right follow that all right i ridiculously slowly drink extremely delicious tea daily let's describe extremely how extremely very extremely really extremely quite extremely or insanely and extremely you know whatever adverb you want to use okay i'm not going to write it down because i don't really write that many adverbs and adjectives but i just want to show you how it works okay okay so with those four parts of speech that i've reviewed so far noun verb adjective and adverb you're going to be pretty good there those are the ones that i tell my students they should know most importantly because those are the ones that are going to help you with grammar mistakes that you might make if you're using the wrong form of a word or they're the ones that are going to help your writing be more descriptive so i always tell my students when you learn a new word try to learn all of the different forms of it like the noun form the adjective form the adverb form so here we have repeat repeats the verb form repetition that's the noun form also a lot of nouns end with tion that's a trick too you can kind of start to look at the word endings okay repetitive that's the adjective form of the word repeat and notice the ending a lot of adjectives not all lots of them though and with this type of ending repetitively that's the adverb form of the word repeat and many adverbs end with l-y but not all adverb not all words that end with l-y are adverbs so be careful um but that's though here we are the four parts of speech we just learned this is going to give you great vocabulary expansion power okay all right so let's talk about the rest of the parts of speech the article the preposition the interjection and the pronoun these ones i'm going to go over a little bit more quickly okay all right let's talk about articles articles are one of the most difficult parts of learning english i think for a lot of people just because to learn how to use them correctly you kind of need to know what kind of noun you're using whether it's a count noun or a non-count noun or a noun that the person you're speaking to knows about or doesn't know about it's really complicated so i will be making a video on articles soon and it will be there so you can watch that i'm not going to get into detail about articles in this video i just want to say that there are three articles in english the a and an that's all i'm gonna say right here they're too complicated to say more about in this video but as you can see in this sentence we do have an article the and articles usually come before noun all right let's talk about pronouns pronouns are words that just replace nouns so we don't want to repeat a noun again and again and again in a sentence instead we can use a pronoun to replace that word okay so let's look at what i'm talking about my brother made tea for himself he took one drink and then i stole it from him it was his but now it's mine okay in this sentence well these sentences we have lots of pronouns and there are lots of different types of pronouns let's look at them remember pronouns replace a noun so you don't have to repeat it again and again and again my brother that's a noun made t for himself himself that's a pronoun okay so i'm just gonna circle that and just to be clear himself refers back to my brother now this is a reflexive pronoun reflexive pronouns are words like himself myself herself yourself themselves these are uh pronouns that we use to say that we are doing something and it reflects and comes back to us okay he that's a pronoun too so i'm going to circle it this is a subject pronoun it replaces the subject of a sentence that could have been my brother okay but instead of saying my brother my brother my brother we can now say he okay he took one drink and then i stole it what is it it is a pronoun it refers to what what does it refer to it refers to his tea okay and then i stole it from him him is a pronoun what does it refer to who does it refer to it refers to my brother okay and this is a object pronoun objects pronouns come after verbs or prepositions it again here's a pronoun it what does that refer to it refers to the t it was his okay his refers to my brother's this is a possessive pronoun but now it is mine it is mine it is a pronoun that refers back to t mine is the pronoun that refers to something that i possess okay there is a rundown of lots of examples of types of pronouns that you will need to know about at some point okay um so just so you can review i'll list the types okay i know this looks like a lot and it is okay but i'll just review them subject pronouns are words that replace a noun in the subject position of a sentence subjects are who or what a sentence is about they're nouns they are the things or the people that do the verb the action in a sentence right so i you he she it they we right they come before verbs okay object pronouns these are words um pronouns that come after verbs or after prepositions me he spoke to me you he spoke to you him her it them us then we have reflexive pronouns reflective pronouns are the pronouns that we use to say that we've done something and it comes back to us it's reflex back onto us okay so i can say i looked at myself myself i looked at myself in the camera okay so myself yourself himself herself itself themselves plural ourselves and then we have possessive possessive pronouns just replace the possession of something so my marker your marker his marker her marker right but instead of saying marker if you know and i already know it's the marker we're talking about we can just say mine yours his hers its theirs ours okay so these are some of the pronouns not all of them um okay and um so something you need to make sure you're aware of when you're using a pronoun because pronouns always replace a noun okay they always refer back to a noun that you have mentioned earlier okay so you can't really just start talking and say it no one's gonna know what it is okay you'd have to say my tea and then it was delicious then they know what it is okay but when you use that pronoun you need to make sure that it agrees with the noun it's referring to and that can get a little tricky so if i say um you know my friends and then later i want to use the pronoun what am i going to say am i going to say he am i going to say she am i going to say it am i going to say they i'm going to say they i need to make sure that i'm thinking of the person the number and the gender when i'm talking about when i want when i'm using when i want to use a pronoun okay what do i mean by person person just means first person so first person i me right second person you yourself right and then third person he she it they okay so this is first we i that's first person you that's second and then third person is he she it and they all right so in this example you can see person issues with agreement for the pronoun tim called you said hi here we have a pronoun it should refer back to the noun that was mentioned tim is actually third person because it's he okay so then we would use he here okay instead of you he said hi when we're talking about pronouns and agreement we need to think about number number means do we need to use a singular pronoun which means one or do we need to use a plural pronoun which means more than one so here i is singular you is singular but it can also be plural he she and it are singular they is plural we is plural so look at this sentence my friends called what's a pronoun that i should use for this plural noun am i gonna say she said hi he said hi it said hi no i'm gonna say they said hi they is plural because friends is plural okay so the last thing that you need to consider when you are using a pronoun to refer back to a noun to make sure they agree is to think about the gender gender refers to an individual's experience with um you know being a male or a female or anything anywhere in between okay and um so so when we're referring to uh a person okay and we we know that that person you know for example clearly identifies with being a male for example like my brother okay then the pronoun we would use would be he because my brother brother is a male he is a male my brother called he said hi okay or if it's me you know jamie you're talking about me third person i identify you know my my um my gender expression is female okay so you would use uh she uh for me or her okay um so when you so so you want to think about person number and gender just be careful with gender because um not everybody who might uh in your idea uh um be put into a box of being male or female um assigns themselves and identifies themselves with those uh labels okay so um a lot of times um people will will tell you that instead of using he or she they want to use the word the pronoun they okay um so if somebody ever tells you that or you see that they've used those pronouns like in writing then you could say that when you're referring to them okay um or whatever pronoun they use so so that is how you make sure your pronouns agree okay all right let's talk about prepositions okay so prepositions are words that are so hard okay there's really like very few rules that we can follow to actually understand them there's there's a lot of confusion around prepositions for good reason okay but prepositions are words that show us location they show us time and a lot of other things okay so i like to tell my students that prepositions are this okay you see a person's face now imagine that there's a fly flying around that person's face where location where can that fly land okay or go where can it go where can it land where can it stop okay it can stop on top of the person's head it can fly over the person's head it can fly under the person's chin it can go through their hair okay it can go in their nose i hope not it can go right here between their eyes you get the idea prepositions show us location but they also can tell us time so imagine you want to know well when did that fly land in your nose when did that happen well it happened at it happened at one o'clock or it happened around one o'clock or it happened before one o'clock or happened after or it happened from one o'clock to two o'clock okay so you can see prepositions are these little words that bring other words together and help us make sense in a sentence in english now there are many many many many prepositions and many many many other uses i could do 500 videos on prepositions i should someday maybe i will but what i want to say is that prepositions tell us a lot okay but one thing you need to know is that you can never have a preposition without a noun after it i mean actually you can you can end a sentence with a preposition actually okay you can but prepositions don't usually come by themselves they come with a noun after them okay so um we would say in class around my house okay outside the yard you know so prepositions come with nouns that's all i want to say so prepositional phrase is a preposition plus a noun okay so that's all i'm going to say about prepositions because there is so much to know about them the last word form or part of speech that i want to talk about is an interjection an interjection okay interjections are just words that show you know like our emotion or some some sort of exciting thing honestly i don't use them much when i'm writing i use them all the time when i'm talking a good way to describe interjections interjections is to say that they are cuss words they are swear words they are the words that we let out when like we're excited we're angry or we're confused but those bad words right like i don't want to say them for the video even though i i totally could but you know the f word you know all these words okay and that's because they come in the middle of our sentence they interject themselves into what we're already saying they could even interject themselves into a word and it doesn't have to be a bad word actually it could be just another word that injects itself inside of another word okay so let me give you an example of an interjection inside of a sentence this video is so long so sometimes when people are talking especially when they're talking usually not when they're writing it becomes informal but when we're talking we'll throw in interjections which are technically even you know adjectives and adverbs and nouns and things like that but they just interrupt the flow of a sentence sort of i one that i would say is like this video is so freaking long okay that's an interjection right or another type of interjection could be inside of a word like this is fantastic so sometimes people will interject inside of a word and say yeah it's it's it's long but it's fan freaking tastic right so they'll they'll put it inside of a word okay interjections can also be like these sounds like huh wow really or uh these words and i think the best way i could say to learn interjections is to just talk and listen to people talk listen to authentic speech um because they're used when we're speaking not so much when we're writing and they're good ways to fill uh what you're saying because then you sound more fluent right um that's an interjection okay so i hope you've enjoyed this video and leave a comment if you have any questions i will try to help you and answer them and i hope that this helped you bye-bye

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Published: Sat Jan 09 2021