The 9 Parts of Speech

First of all, what is a part of speech? Grammarians have devised a system to sort every word in the English language into nine categories. We call those categories parts of speech.

The first part of speech is the noun. A noun is usually defined as a "person, place, or thing," but events, qualities, and abstract concepts are also nouns. There are many subcategories of noun, so many that we decided to make a separate article about them! The subject of a sentence is most often a noun.

The second part of speech is the verb. A verb is a word that describes an action, occurrence, or state of being. There are many different verb tenses, although the simplest ones are past, present, and future. You can read more about verbs and verb tenses here.

The third part of speech is the adjective. Adjectives are words that modify nouns. They describe a