Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions, Premium 3rd Edition (2016)

Appendix A. The eight parts of speech

1. Noun

A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.

2. Verb

A word that expresses an action, occurrence, or mode of being.

3. Adjective

A word that modifies or describes a noun. It can be descriptive or quantitative.

NOTE Articles are classified as definite and indefinite. Technically, articles are adjectives, because they modify nouns; however, many people believe that they deserve separate status due to their frequency of use.

4. Adverb

A word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb.

5. Preposition

A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in a phrase, clause, or sentence.

6. Interjection

A word or phrase used as an exclamation without any grammatical function.

7. Pronoun

A word that replaces a noun that is understood because of previous use or from context.

8. Conjunction

A word that connects two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.