Parts of Speech

part of speech / function or "job" / example words / example sentences
Verb / action or state / (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must / EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com.
Noun / thing or person / pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John / This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.
Adjective / describes a noun / a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting / I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.
Adverb / describes a verb, adjective or adverb / quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really / My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.
Pronoun / replaces a noun / I, you, he, she, some / Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
Preposition / links a noun to another word / to, at, after, on, but / We went to school on Monday.
Conjunction / joins clauses or sentences or words / and, but, when / I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.
Interjection / short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence / oh!, ouch!, hi!, well / Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

Pronouns (zamjenice)

Personal pronouns: I, me, we, us, you, she, her, he, him, they, them, it,

Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, whose, whichever, whoever, whomever

Demonstrative pronouns: this, these, that, those

Indefinite pronouns: anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something, both, few, many, several, all, any, most, none, some

Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves

Interrogative pronouns: what, who, which, whom, whose (in questions)

Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs

(Note: my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their - possessive adjectives)

Adverbs (prilozi)

Adverbs that tell us How?

A: absentmindedly, adoringly, awkwardly

B: beautifully, briskly, brutally

C: carefully, cheerfully, competitively

E: eagerly, effortlessly, extravagantly

G: girlishly, gracefully, grimly

L: lazily, lifelessly, loyally

Q: quietly, quickly, quizzically

R: really, recklessly, remorsefully, ruthlessly

S: savagely, sloppily, so, stylishly

U: unabashedly, unevenly, urgently

W: well, wishfully, worriedly

Adverbs that tell us When?

A: after, afterwards, annually

B: before

D: daily

N: never, now

S: soon, still

T: then, today, tomorrow

W: weekly, when

Y: yesterday

Adverbs that tell us Where?

A: abroad, anywhere, away

E: everywhere

H: here, home

I: in, inside

O: out, outside

S: somewhere

T: there

U: underground, upstairs

Adverbs that tell us To what extent?

E: extremely

N: not (this includes n't), no

Q: quite

R: rather, really

T: terribly, too

V: very

Prepositions (predlozi)

aboard, about, above, across, after, against, ahead of, along, amid,

amidst, among, around, as, as far as, as of, aside from, at, athwart, atop

barring, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides,

between, beyond, but, by, by means of

circa, concerning

despite, down, during

except, except for, excluding

far from, following, for, from

in, in accordance with, in addition to, in case of, in front of, in lieu of,

in place of, in spite of, including, inside, instead of, into

like

minus

near, next to

of, off, on, on account of, on behalf of, on top of, onto, opposite, out,

out of, outside, over

past, plus, prior to

regarding, regardless of

save, since

than, through, till, to, toward, towards

under, underneath, unlike, until, up, upon

versus, via

with, with regard to, within, without

Conjuctions (veznici)

for (u značenju because, dok je u značenju za predlog), and, nor, but, or, yet, so

after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though

because, before, by the time

even if, even though

if, in order that, in case

lest

once, only if

provided that

since, so that

than, that, though, till

unless, until

when, whenever, where, wherever, while

both... and

either... or

neither... nor

not only... but also

whether... or

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the definite article : the

demonstratives : this, that, these, those

possessives : my, your, his, her, its, our, their

the indefinite articles : a, an

a few, a little, all, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, few, fewer, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, no, other, several, some