An Introduction to the Parts of Speech

Abstract

In Section 4.1 we studied two sentences and described each word in each sentence in terms of the work that it did in the sentence. We saw that ‘Hilda’, ‘mother’, ‘bread’ and ‘food’ were naming words in those sentences, ‘walked’ was an action word, ‘healthy’ was a describing word—describing the thing named by the word ‘food’—and so on.