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What are the main types of words that make up a sentence?

Nouns are names of people, places or things. There are two types of
nouns:
PROPER NOUNS - these are the special names given to specific people
or things. They begin with a capital letter.
NOUNS Examples: Jenny England Friday July High Street Mr Hill

COMMON NOUNS - these are general names given to people, places or
things. They do not begin with a capital letter.
Examples: river girls snow day months anger
Pronouns are words that can be used in place of nouns.
PRONOUNS Examples: I you he she it we you they who

me you him her us you them whom
Most verbs are ‘action’ words that tell us what is happening in a
sentence.
Examples: run shouted swimming said go went tries

Some verbs are ‘being’ words - they tell us what is, was or will be in
the sentence.
VERBS Examples: is am was were be being has been

Verbs change their form to show us whether we are talking about the
present, the past or the future (the tenses).
Examples: I talk (present) I was talking (past) I will talk(future)

Verbs can be made up of more than one word.
Examples: has been playing should have been listening
Conjunctions are joining words that are used to join simple sentences
together to make a COMPOUND sentence.
Examples: as because but if then so while
CONJUNCTIONS They join two short (simple) sentences joined together to make a
compound sentence.
Example: I ate my dinner. I was hungry.
I ate my dinner because I was hungry.
Adjectives describe nouns. They can tell us all sorts of information
such as size, shape, colour, age and texture.
Examples: small round blue old smooth cold angry
ADJECTIVES
You can use more than one adjective and if there are two or more
adjectives, we usually put a comma between them.
Examples: an old, smelly sock a large, heavy, brown parcel
Adverbs are mainly used to tell us more about verbs. They can come
before or after the verb or even at the beginning of the sentence.
ADVERBS
Examples: quickly usually carefully slowly sadly
I carefully opened the letter. Usually, Sara walked home quickly.
A PREPOSITION tells us the POSITION of something.
Examples: in into on under over among near before
PREPOSITIONS
Prepositions come before the noun or pronoun they are describing.
Example: The horse jumped over the gate.

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