How Do You Identify Parts Of Speech?
A part of speech is what we classify words in the language as with regard to their individual purpose within a sentence. For example, to put it simply what the word that describes an action is, a Verb, and the word that describes who is doing the action, a noun, and so on. Although verbs and nouns are arguably the most well known of the parts of speech there are a number of others that we need within the syntax to enable our language to function fluently. Students in school will need to parse sentences and analyze word roles and parts of speech. Functional Linguists have tried to simplify the process by giving the P of S new functional names but that just seems to confuse children even more so for this article I will speak of the traditional names such as nouns and verbs etc. Recognizing parts of speech however does rely on seeing a word’s function or role in the sentence. Find the first noun. A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. Sentences will typically
