PARTS OF SPEECH :-
* OPEN CLASS :-
- NOUNS
- VERBS
- ADJECTIVES
- ADVERBS
* CLOSE CLASS :-
- PRONOUNS
- PREPOSITIONS
- CONJUNCTIONS
- DETERMINERS
- INTERJECTION
NOUNS
-is a word used to name a person, place, thing or idea
example : teacher, Arizona, car. love
* Common nouns
- common names shared by everything of the same kind.
- example : Sons, bird, villages, horses, country
* Proper nouns
- Names of particular people, animals, places or things.
- example : Anita, Johannesburg, Asian Tourism International College, Chrismas, etc
* Collective nouns
- Refer to group of things that are regarded as one, collection of persons, places, activities & concepts.
- example : Congregation, jury, team, staff, audience
* Abstaract nouns
- Denote a quality, a feeling, an action or a state of mind (things which are intangible & cannot be counted)
- example : Efficiency, admiration, beuty, honesty, respect
VERB
- a word which shows action or state of being
- every sentence must have a verb
- Actions verbs (transitive and intransitive)
- Non-actions verbs (be verbs and linking verbs)
ADJECTIVES
- An adjective is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun; it answers questions like What kind? How much? or How many? example: red apple, that book, fifty cents, two touchdowns.
- Articles are adjectives that determine specific or generalnouns. example : a, an, the
- Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns. example : Italian food, European vacation
ADVERB
- can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause.
- An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how", "when", "where", "how much".
- Unlike an adjective, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentences.
PRONOUNS
- Pronouns are words used in the place of one or more nouns (called antecedents)
example : Manual told his aunt that he bought a new computer.
- Personal pronouns stand for people, places, and things
example : I, me, yours, himself, she, hers, its, ours, they, theirs
PREPOSITIONS
- A preposition is a word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.
example : above, before, during, for, in, near, off, to, with.
CONJUNCTIONS
- A conjunction is a word that joins words, groups of words, or complete sentences of equal value.
- EXAMPLE :
- Lucy and Ed left the door open.
- He is going to school, but I am going to work.
- He is going to school; however, I am going to work.
INTERJECTIONS
- An interjection is a word that expresses strong emotion. Interjections can be followed by a comma or an exclamation point.
- EXAMPLES :
- Wow! I never knew that.
- Oh, did I do that?