The English 8 parts of speech with examples

What does each of the parts of speech do?

8 parts of speech	function or what it does (job)
Verb	action or state
Noun	are a thing or person
Adjective	describes a noun
Adverb	describes a verb, adjective or adverb
Pronoun	replaces a noun
Preposition	links a noun to another word
Conjunction	joins clauses or sentences or words
Interjection	short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence