Adverbs, Prepositions, Verbs, Pronouns & Conjunctions

Adverbs

An adverb is a word that acts as the core of an adverbial phrase. It modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Classification of Adverbs

• Place: out there, here, up close, in front, within, above, across, away, etc.
• Time: now, before, even yesterday, after, today, then, tomorrow, never, soon, always, yet, etc.
• Quantity: something, pretty, almost, too much, well, nothing, just, so, so much.
• Manner: agile, well, good, bad, fair, bravely, and so on.
• Order: before, after, later, first, respectively, and so on.
• Affirmation: true, certainly, of course, actually, probably, yes, indeed, and so on.
• Negation: never, no, never, no, etc.
• Doubt: perhaps, possibly, probably, maybe, perhaps, etc.
• Question: how, when, where.
• Relative: how, when, where.

Prepositions

A preposition is a word that relates the elements of a sentence. Prepositions can indicate origin, source, destination, address, place, medium, point, reason, etc.

Classification of Prepositions

• Irregular Prepositions or anomalous: They are not expressed. It is understood in a subject.
• Transitive: Also called active, it is one in which the verb is modified by an accusative. For example, "the wind stirs the waves", means an action that runs on wind waves, passing and adjusting them.

Verbs

The verb is the part of speech or lexical category that expresses existence, action, condition, or state of the subject.

Conjugation

Verb conjugation is the set of forms of a verb according to the categories of person, number, tense, aspect, mood, voice, etc.

• 1st person: Infinitives ending in -ar. Examples: walking, jogging, singing, dancing.
• 2nd person: Infinitives ending in -er. Examples: eating, fearing, namely, learning.
• 3rd person: Infinitives ending in -ir. Examples: serving, living, feeling, allowing.

Pronouns

Conjunctions

Conjunctions are words or a set of words linking propositions, phrases, or words. As their etymology of Latin origin explains, cum means 'with,' and junctio means 'together,' so it's 'that which links or joins with.' It is one of the kinds of connections.