Some nouns cannot be made plural and cannot be divided into separate elements because they are substances that we cannot count: “Es” tends to be added to words that end in “z,” “x,” “ch,” “sh,” and “s.” Nouns that are countable can be transformed into plural form by adding an “s” or “es” to the end. uncountable nouns, quantifier nouns, collective nouns, compound nouns, and various types of pronouns. In this section, we will be discussing countable vs. Nouns that change structure in the plural form are known as irregular (children, mice, men). Most nouns are pluralized by adding “-s” or “-es” to the end (tables, chairs, brushes).
Some words in English are gender-specific, however, such as waitress, steward, and policeman. This simplifies learning as students need not memorize this additional information. While many other languages (French, Arabic, etc.) assign gender to inanimate objects, English does not. For example, an accountant, a chef, a teacher, and an engineer can be male or female. In English, most nouns can be used to refer to either gender. They are the words that babies typically learn first, pointing at objects or people and repeating what they have absorbed. Nouns are used to name people, animals, places, objects, emotions, and abstract ideas.
Interjection: Words used to express emotion.Įxamples: wow, um, oh, ah, eh, yay, phew, ugh. 
Determiner: definite and indefinite articles, demonstratives, and quantifiers that identify, indicate, or quantify the noun phrase.Įxamples: the, a/an, this, that, those, these, some, many, few, all of. Conjunction: A word, or group of words, used to link words, sentences, phrases, and/or clauses.Įxamples: and, but, or, so, because, although, while, since. Preposition: A word, or group of words, used to describe the relationship in space or time or possession of one word or phrase to another word or phrase.Įxamples: above, below, in, at, with, from. Adverb: A word, or group of words, used to describe a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase.Įxamples: briefly, quietly, frequently, obstinately. Adjective: A word used to describe a noun or pronounĮxamples: small, beautiful, loud, ecstatic, dejected. Verb: A word, or group of words, used to describe an action, an experience, or a state of beingĮxamples: walk, laugh, chew, create, am, is, are, been. Pronoun: A word used to substitute for a noun or noun phraseĮxamples: I, me, he, she, it, they, them, we. Noun: A word, or group of words, that names a person, place, or thing (object, activity, idea, or emotion) and can be used as the subject or object of a verb.Įxamples: father, London, statue, happiness, justice, electricity. Words are referred to as parts of speech.
0 kommentar(er)
