STEP ONE:BE FAMILIAR WITH HOW ENGLISH IS STRUCTURED

It is inevitable that Grammar is the most important part of English. No matter how fluent we are in speaking English or how rich we are in English vocabulary, if our way of speaking is not well-structured, it may trigger misunderstanding or misinterpretation. How come!

Just realize that English depends much on grammar to make it understandable. It is grammar that composes the meaning behind our message reveals perfectly. English insists on our consistency in its structure when using it, be it when speaking or when writing. It is different from our mother tongue (e.g. Indonesian) which puts meaning behind the context of a sentence rather than of an individual word. In other words, the meaning of our speech is still well-understood regardless the misuse of individual structure of vocabulary.

English, on the other hand, needs our perfection to structure its individual vocabulary and the whole sentence. Thus, all our speech must be perfectly structured. To understand how we can reach the perfection English calls for, first of all; we must be familiar with what the so-called “PARTS OF SPEECH”.

WHAT IS PARTS OF SPEECH? (click here)

“Words are divided into different kinds or classes according to the purpose that they are used for. The different kinds of words are called Parts of Speech”(American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language).
There are eight PARTS OF SPEECH, they are: (click here)

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Verb
4. Adjective
5. Adverb
6. Preposition
7. Conjunction
8. Interjection

There are only 7 parts of speech (not too many, right!). All of us know what every of them means lexically. As a matter of fact, it is not the meaning that we all need to be familiar with. We must understand how they function in our speech.

To understand the function of Parts of Speech, we can start by knowing what the basic structure of a sentence. Before we discuss further, however, we have to start with what Parts of Speech are characterized. (To be continued)