English by charlotte Seuffer

Parts of speech

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Lexical category to which a word is assigned based on its function in a sentence. There are eight parts of speech in traditional English grammar.

Noun

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a noun is a word that is used to identify people, a place or a thing. An example would be School

Pronoun

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A pronoun is a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase. They refer to a noun that has already been mentioned or to a noun that does not need to be named specifically. the They in the sentence above would be a noun.

Verbs

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Verbs are words to describe an action, for example swimming

Adjectives

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An adjective is a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives can be used to describe the quality of someone or something, for example: the boy is tall

Adverbs

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Adverbs provide context in a sentence by describing how, when, where, and to what extent something occurs. They can be used to modify verbs, adjectives and even other adverbs, for example: she is extremely talented

Conjuction

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A conjunction is a word that is used to connect words, phrases and clauses, for example and

Preposition

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A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object, for example: in

Interjection

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An interjection is a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning, for example: gosh, goodness

Types of nouns

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Singular nouns

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A singular nouns is a noun that refers to only one person, place or thing. An example would be dog, because it refers to only one dog not multiple

Plural nouns

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A plural noun is a noun that refers to more than one place, person or thing. An example would be dogs, because it refers to more than one dog.

Collective nouns

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Collective nouns are nouns that refer to a group of people, things or places. Even though they refer to more than one thing they are not treated as plural nouns. A few examples for a collective noun would be, a team of players, a swarm of bees ore a pack of wolves .

Common nouns

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Common nouns describe a non-specific person, thing or place. They are mostly not capitalised and are typically used with an article. For example a professor, a cat or a city.

Proper nouns

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Proper nouns are the opposite to common nouns. They describe specific people, places or things. For example Marie, Dr. Parkash or New York.