What is a Noun?
A noun is a word used to
name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are
usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:
Late last year our neighbors bought a goat.Portia White was an opera singer.The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes.According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving.
A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object,...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Adverbs: A little step to show your existence.
An adverb is a word that changes or qualifies the meaning of a verb, adjective, other adverb, clause, sentence or any other word or phrase, except that it does not include the adjectives and determiners that directly modify nouns. Adverbs are traditionally regarded as one of the parts of speech,
although the wide variety of the functions performed by words classed
as adverbs means that it is hard to treat them as a single uniform
category.
Adverbs typically answer questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where?, and to what extent?. This...
Friday, November 16, 2012
Adjectives... The Keywords to Describe your World.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Part of Speech. What is this?
In grammar, a part of speech (also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb, among others. There are open word classes, which constantly acquire new members, and close word classes, which acquire new members infrequently if at all.
Almost all languages have the lexical categories noun and verb,...
INTRODUCTION!!! FIRST BLOG, FIRST STEP TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED
MAN Prambon English Generation Presents
Greeting!
Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "world language", the lingua franca of the modern era, and while it is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language. It is, by international treaty, the official language for aeronautical and maritime communications. English is an official language of the United Nations and many other international organizations, including the International Olympic...
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