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'. After analysing each option carefully, we came to the point that option 'b' is the right answer.Parts of speech are types of word in grammar. Option d-interjection which is a word or phrase that is used to express surprise, pain, pleasure, etc.( for example: oh! Hurray! Or Wow!). Option c-conjunction which is a word that is used for joining other words, phrases or sentences. Some examples of prepositions are words like “in”, “at“, “on”, “of”, and “to”. Option b-preposition which is a word or phrase that is used before a noun or pronoun to show place, time, direction, etc. Option a-adverb is a word that adds more information about a place, time, manner, cause or degree to a verb, an adjective, a phrase, or another adverb. We will look at each option carefully and try to find out the meaning and figure out the answer through it: In the given question, we have to find out if the underlined word is which part of the speech. For example, They always keep talking about us. The underlined word is 'about' is a preposition which means - on the subject of (something). A preposition is a word used with a noun or pronoun to show how the person or thing denoted by the noun or pronoun stands concerning something else.

What part of speech is the word about