Parts of Speech Review

[mansour]

Hi all,






In fact, part of learning English grammmar is to learn the parts of speech. And in order to be a good writer or speaker, we all have to know these parts. Most of us have an idea about them, but not all of us know how to differentiate between them because there are exceptions in any rule as we all know.
So , I find it useful to write about the parts of speech, and I hope every one will get benefit from that.






Now let us start:


Nouns
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, quality, concept or action

The first letters of some nouns are capitalized to show a specific name or title (Alan). These are called proper nouns. Other nouns that are not specific do not use a capital letter (man). These are called common nouns. Nouns that have a singular and plural form are called count nouns. Nouns that only have a singular form are called non-count nouns.

Non-count nouns never add -s.



Nouns function in many ways:

subject: The car runs well.
direct object: I bought a book.
complements: Mary was president.
object of the prep: He walked to the store.
indirect object: Sam mailed Joan a letter.
possession: The woman's daughter left early.



Verbs
A verb is a word that tells what the subject of the sentence does, says, thinks, or feels. Sometimes the verb shows movement (jump) or sometimes it shows how a thing is or that it exists (is). The verb also shows time which is called tense. The form of the verb or its tense can tell when events take place.
For example, the verb clean


Present Simple: clean/ cleans

Past Simple: cleaned

Future Simple: will clean

Present Perfect : has/have cleaned

Past Perfect: had cleaned

Future Perfect: will have cleaned

Present Continuous (Progressive): is/am/are cleaning

Past Continuous (Progressive): was cleaning

Future Continuous (Progressive): will be cleaning

Present Perfect Continuous (Progressive): has/have been cleaning

Past Perfect Continuous (Progressive): had been cleaning

Future Perfect Continuous (Progressive): will have been cleaning


Adverbs

Adverbs modify or describe verbs (run fast), adjectives (often sad), or other adverbs (too often). Adverbs often, but not always, end in -ly. A test for deciding if a word is an adverb is to think about the word's function. Adverbs tend to tell where, when, or how.

For example: very pretty, most unhappy, never angry, come soon

[عاشقة الجنة]

Perfect subject my brother

it turns my mind back when I were study these parts in school and also in university . i really bored from these subjects cuz it reapeted every year and year

yes it is easy to study these thing but sometimes i forget them easier :) Thanks alot

Good work and I hope every one get benfit from this lesson

A.Aljannah