PARTS OF SPEECH

NOUN: that is used to name or identify a person, place, thing, quality, or action.
KINDS OF NOUNS Proper Nouns and Common Nouns Proper nouns are nouns that represent a unique entity (like a specific person or a specific place). Common nouns which describe an entire group of entities (examples would be the nouns village or women).Proper nouns as a general rule are capitalized in the English language. Countable and Uncountable or Noncount Nouns Countable nouns are common nouns that can become a plural. They can combine with exact numbers (even one, as a singular) or indefinite numbers (like "a" or "an"). Uncountable (or noncount) nouns are different from by the simple fact that they can't become plural or combine with number words. Collective Nouns Collective nouns name groups consisting of more than one individual or entity. The group is a single unit, but it has more than one member. Examples: include "family", "committee", "corporation","faculty", "army", and "school". Concrete Nouns and Abstract Nouns Concrete nouns refer to their ability to register on your five senses. If you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel the item, it's a concrete noun. Abstract nouns on the other hand refer to abstract objects such as ideas or concepts, like the nouns "politeness" or "hatefulness". Possessive Nouns A possessive noun is a noun that names who or what has something. The possessive form is used with nouns referring to people, groups of people, countries, and animals. GENDER OF NOUNS Masculine - are words for men, boys, and male animals. Ex. Father, Uncle, Grandfather, Son and Janitor Feminine - are words for women, girls and female animals. Ex. Mother, Aunt, Grandmother and Janitress Common - are nouns that are used for both males and females. Ex. Pencils, Car, House and Package Neuter - are words for things that are not alive. Ex. Student, Child, Teacher and Police

Uses of Nouns
Subject the noun is place before the verb Ex. God cares for us. Subject Complement the noun is placed after the linking verb. Ex. The given of any good gift is God. Direct Object the noun is placed after the transitive verb Ex. We thank God for all the blessings. Indirect Object the noun is placed between the transitive verb and direct object. Normative Address the noun refres to a person or persons spoken from a statement Ex. God please helps me.
Appositive a noun is placed after another noun so as to modify it. Ex. My confident God never hates me down

FORMING THE PLURAL FORM OF NOUN

1) Most nouns form the plural by adding to the singular ( idea ideas, car cars ) 2) Nouns which end in s, sh, ch, or z form the plural by adding es.( Box Boxes, Dish Dishes )

PRONOUN: can replace a noun or another pronoun. You use pronouns like "he," "which,"
"none," and "you" to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive. Personal pronoun refers to a specific person or thing and changes its form to indicate person, number, gender, and case. First personal refer to the speaker Second personal refer to the person spoken to Third personal refer to the whole word of persons and things that may be spoken about Singular Subject Complement Object Possessive Determine 1st person I, We I, We Me, Us Mine, Ours My, Our 2ndperson You You You Yours Your 3rdperson He, She, It, They He, She, It, They His, Her, It, Then His, Her, Its, Theirs His, Her, Its, Their

ADJECTIVE: modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words.

An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies. Comparison of adjectives - comparison is the chance that adjective change to express different degrees of quality. Suffixes connected of the root word Preffixes connected before the root word

VERB: is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb or compound

verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. The verb or compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of a sentence. An action word

Ex. Washing, jumping, digging, watching

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". Adverb of time when? Adverb of place where? Adverb of manner tells who? Adverb of frequency how? Intensifiers adverbs which indicate degree

PREPOSITON: links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or
phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence as in the following

Principal Prepositions
Aboard About Across After For From In Made Into Along Amid amidst Among Around Their Of In Outside Over Before Behind Beside Behind Regarding Re Through Toward Under By Concerning Destined Drawing Until Up Upon With Within

Commonly used Prepositions About Above Across After Against Along At Before Behind Below Beneath Beside Between Beyond But By Concerning Allow During Except For from In Into Like Of Off On