Sentence Structure By: Amanda Garrett Bailey

What is the function of: Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs

Nouns A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing. A subject noun is a noun that functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause.

Pronouns A pronoun can be defined as a function word that is used instead of a noun or a noun phrase. Examples of such pronouns include I, you, he, she, it, this, him, who, me, my, among many others.

Verbs A verb is a term used to describe an action, occurrence or state and usually forming the main part of a sentence predicate such as happen, hear and become.

Adjectives Adjectives are describing words. Large, grey and friendly are all examples of adjectives. An adjective describes the noun.

Adverb An adverb refers to a part of speech that changes the meaning of verbs or any part of speech other than nouns. Adverbs typically answer questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where? and to what extent?.