As a compulsory examination for contemporary college students, CET-4 reading is extremely high in terms of gold content and adaptability. But if you want to pass this exam, you need to master the classification of English parts of speech. At the same time, this part of the content is often used as an important test site for CET4 grammar. Let's learn about English part-of-speech classification together, hoping to help everyone.

English parts of speech are usually divided into ten categories:

1) Nouns are the names of people and things, such as pens, English and life.

2) pronouns (abbreviated as pron. ) is a word used to replace nouns, such as we (we), his (his) and all (all).

3) adjectives (abbreviated as adj.) are used to modify nouns, such as greatness, honesty and difficulty.

4) Numerals (abbreviated as num. ) means "how much" and "which number", such as four (four), eight (eighteen), first (first), eight (eighteen) and hundredth (one hundred).

5) verb (verb, abbreviated as V) indicates actions and states, such as writing, walking and thinking.

6) Adverbs, abbreviated as. Adv.) is a word that modifies verbs, adjectives and adverbs, such as fast, often and very.

7) Article (abbreviated as art.) A word that describes the person or thing referred to by a noun, such as A, an (1) and The (this and that).

8) Preposition (abbreviated as prep. ) indicates the relationship between nouns (or pronouns) and other words in the sentence, such as from (from), in (in …) and between (in …).

9) Conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases, clauses and sentences, such as and (and), because (because) and if (if).

10) interjection (int. ) express feelings, for example. Oh (oh), aha (aha), shh (shh).

[Note 1] Words belonging to the first six categories (name, generation, form, number, verb, vice, etc. ) has substantive meaning, which is called real meaning.

Word). Words belonging to the last four categories (such as Guan, Jie, Lian and Gan) have no practical meaning and are called function words.

[Note 2] Many words can belong to several parts of speech, such as work (work; Verbs and nouns), fast (fast; Adjectives and adverbs), because; Conjunctions and prepositions) and so on.

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