part of speech

Mer av detta

relatives

av aime rodriguez

PRONOUNS

av James Cárdenas

Prepositions of time

av Diego Monar

Verb patterns with ING or INFINITIVE _ Annika Schricker

av Annika Schricker

part of speech

A noun is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.

interjection

Generic nouns are nouns that are part of a generic statement. Generic nouns can be singular or plural. The opposite of generic nouns is collective nouns.

The difference between definite/indefinite and generic nouns is that in the sentence there must be a blanket statement or question.

Oh!, hi!, ouch!, Wow!

short exclamation

conjuctions

Proper nouns are the names of specific people or places. They should always begin with a capital letter.

but, and, while, when

joins senteces

adverbs

A concrete noun is a noun that can be identified through one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell).

silently, badly, really

describe a verb, adjective or adverb

adjectives

Possessive nouns are nouns which possess something, normally another noun.

small, big,good, well, blue

describe a noun

pronouns

Common nouns are words for people, places or things that aren’t specific (as opposed to a proper noun which refers to only one person, place or thing).

Common nouns can be countable or uncountable, singular or plural.

I, you, he, she, it, we,they

replaces a noun

prepositions

A noun which refers to a group of things/people.

at, in, of, on, after, under

links a noun to another word

verbs

A noun which cannot be identified by using one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell).

get, come, cut, open, like

action or state

nouns

Irregular nouns are nouns which don’t follow a spelling pattern when pluralized.

pencil, cat, notebook

thing or person