Tag Description Example VERB Verbs (all tenses and modes) eat , ate, eats NOUN Nouns (common and proper) home , Micah PRON Pronouns I , you, your, he ADJ Adjectives yellow , bigger, wildest ADV Adverbs quickly , faster, fastest ADP Adpositions (prepositions of , in, by, under and postpositions) CONJ Conjunctions and , or, but DET Determiners a , an, the, this NUM Cardinal numbers one , two, first, second PRT Particles, other function words up , down, on, off X Other: foreign words, typos, brasserie , abcense , HMM abbreviations . Punctuation ?, !, .