Words are used to form patterns of English grammar and syntax. Each word falls into one of eight categories referred to as parts of speech. Here are the eight commonly recognized parts of speech.

英語的語法和句法中也會形成詞的類型。每個詞都會被歸為八類中的一類，這里我們要講的就是英語中八類最常見的詞性。

Certain words have further categorization such as: adverbs offrequency: always, sometimes, often, etc. or determiners: this, that, these, those . However, the basic categorization of words in English fall into these eight categories.

具體的詞還會有更進一步的分類，比如always (總是), sometimes (有時), often (經常)等等這些被叫做頻率副詞，還有this (這個), that (那個), these (這些), those (那些)被叫做限定詞，不過基本的英語詞類還是有這八類的。

The Eight Parts of Speech

八種詞類

Noun

名詞

A word which is a person, place, thing or idea.

描述一個人、一個地點、一個東西或者一種想法的詞。

Examples:

例如：

Mount Everest, book, horse, Peter, strength, car, Empire State Building, China, house,child

珠穆朗瑪峰，書，馬，皮特(人名)，力量，汽車，帝國大廈，中國，房子，孩子

Pronoun

代詞

A word that is used to take the place of a noun.

用來指代一個名詞的詞

Examples:

例如：

I, they, their, ourselves, itself, your, my, nobody, who, which, her, we

我，他們，我們自己，它自己，你的，我的，沒有人，誰，哪個，她(賓格)，我們

Adjective

形容詞

A word that is used to describe a noun or pronoun.

一個用來描述一個名詞或者代詞的詞

Examples:

例如：

proud, purple, French, few, this, huge, sad, second, none

驕傲的，紫色的，法國的，很少的，剛過去的，巨大的，悲傷的，其次的，沒有的

Verb

動詞

A word that indicates an action, being or state of being.

一個表示動作進行或者存在的狀態的詞

Examples:

例如：

play, run, think, study, smell, wait, be, drive, renounce, fill

玩，跑，想，學習，聞，等，是，駕駛，拒絕，填充

Adverb

副詞

A word that is used to describe a verb which tells how, where, or when something is done.

副詞是用來描述一個動作怎樣完成、在哪里完成或者什么時間完成的詞

Examples:

例如：

carefully, often, very, [w]intelligently, quite, too, rarely, never

仔細地，經常，非常，聰明地，非常，太，很少，從不

Conjunction

連詞

A word that is used to join words or groups of words.

一個用來連接幾個詞或者幾組詞的詞

Examples:

例如：

and, or, but, neither, because, while, since, although

和，或者，但是，既不是，因為，而，自……以來，雖然