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The 8 Parts of Speech
In the English language, all words can be broken down into eight categories. They are:
1. nouns
2. verbs
3. adjectives
4. adverbs
5. prepositions
6. conjunctions
7. pronouns
8. interjections
Some people argue that articles (a/an/the) are a separate category called ar-
ticles or determiners; however, you can include these as a sort of adjective. In
most textbooks, they list 8 parts of speech, so that’s what we will use here to
avoid confusion.
We will look at these in more depth after we ask an important question:
Why Learn Parts of Speech for IELTS?
In order to do well in IELTS, you need to have a good knowledge of English. That’s
pretty obvious, right? But how can you know the language well unless you know
its basic structure? If you want to learn new words, you need to know how to use
them. You should know some really basic things like:
adjectives add detail to nouns
adverbs give more information about verbs
pronouns replace nouns
It is tremendously important that you understand these basics so that you
can then develop more advanced skills. In English, we have a saying:
“You need to walk before you can run.”
This is true of language, too. If you want to speak English at an IELTS 7 level,
you have to work your way up from the basics. I often tell my students that they
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