Definition

Some Examples

Part of Speech

Nouns

People, places,
things, animals and
plants.
Replace nouns

teacher, Johan,
town, Temerloh,
pen, work, music,
cat, rabbit, hibiscus,

The sun shines.

Anna goes to school.

It, he, she, I, you,

we, they
Johan is hungry. He
wants to eat.

Pronouns
It, him, her, me, you,
us, them

My mother loves me.

Its, his, her,my,
your,our, their
The girl looks at her
grandfather.
Its, his, hers, mine,
yours,ours,theirs
My brother and I
have a cat.
The cat is ours.
Itself, himself,
herself, myself,
yourself (S) /
yourselves (P),
ourselves,
themselves

They have taken a

photo of themselves.

this these
that those
This is my book.

These are my books.

who, whom, whose

(people)
which (animals,
things)

He is the boy who is

clever.
This is the book
which I lost.

Verbs

Shows actions

run, go, read, learn,

invite, laugh, sing,
walk

Adjectives

Describe nouns
(menerangkan kata
nama)

brave, healthy, old,

big, red, two, round,
clever, pretty, smart

Adverbs

Describe verbs,
adjectives or other
adverbs

fully, quickly, neatly,

sweetly, almost,
never, really, well

Laila walks to school.

Tony is a brave boy.

Runs quickly.

Eats very slowly.

A train.

Articles

Signal that a noun

is going to follow

a, an, the

An orange
The cat

preposition
s

Conjunctions

Show relationship
between words in a
sentence.

Connect words,
phrases, clauses or
sentences

above, before,
except, from, in,
near, of, between,
up, down, with, at,
after, into
and, or, but, so,
after, before, unless,
either, neither,
because, since

I am going to my
garden.

I was tired so I went

to sleep.

Notes :

Nouns

Singular

Plural

XS

+S
Verbs

Present tense
Singular (+S)

Continuous tense
Past tense

is
are
was
were

+ ing

Plural (xS)

+ed, change
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