A STUDY OF PARTS OF SPEECH USED IN SELECTED NEWS ONLINE: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED NEWS FROM BANGKOK POST ONLINE

The purpose of this study was to analyze parts of speech used from selected news online entitled “Thailand's anti-smoking YouTube hit”.  This study analyzed only words existed in selected news online from Bangkok Post, a Thai newspaper online. It focused on parts of speech used; noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, determination, conjunction and number. The researchers use only a website “parts-of-speech.info” to analyze and collect data. Selected news from Bangkok Post online entitled “Thailand's anti-smoking YouTube hit” was main material for this independent study. Parts-of-speech.info are a website used to collect and analyze data from the selected news. Parts-of-speech.info were used to analyze each sentence from the selected news. The results showed total of; adjective, adverb, conjunction, determiner, noun, number, preposition, pronoun and verb that existed in each sentence.  The findings may be useful for English teachers who would like to teach all skills using online news as their teaching resources.