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English in use.
By mark
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Main types of grammar.
Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives
A noun by any other name!
Which of the following is a noun?
•Tall
•Slow
•Time
•Giraffe
•Then
Did you get the answer?
Actually there were two:
Time, and Giraffe.
Both are names of things.
What types of nouns are there?
People have names
Things have names
Animals have names
Places have names
Emotions have labels
Things have categories and labels
Senses have descriptive words
Me, I, Mark.
Table, computer
George, Rhino
England, London
Tired, happy
Cutlery, spoon
Smell, deliciousAnd so on…
How about verbs then?Which of the following is a verb?
Goat
Tree
Small
Gentle
Cooking
Read
Which was it?
Again there were two to choose.
Cooking, continuously.
Read, to read something.
Types of verb (to do words)
Basically, anything that has a process is a verb, if you do it, it’s a verb, i.e. go, run, do ,make; seeing, writing, playing… and so on.
How to add meaning, then?
To add meaning to the thing or process there are other words you can use. These words expand our understanding of something.
For example: instead of ‘the tree’, you could help explain by adding extra words ‘the magnificent tree’, or ‘the hallowed tree’, or even ‘the dishevelled, forlorn tree!’
Another example: ‘Typing’ at the computer, could be enhanced by ‘excitedly typing’, or even, ‘lethargically and unevenly typing’.
Summary
Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives
Review Quiz:
Which type of words are these:
You, big, friendly, beautiful, happy, strong, kind, adventurous, confident, apple, James, fruit, city, table, computer, hot, ironically, steep, tempestuous, gorgeous, scented, stilted, run, Mary, be, look, find, ungainly, modest, poor, quickly, happily, understandably!
We have looked at the following:
Review Quiz answersNouns:You, James, apple, fruit, city, table, computer, Mary
Verbs:
Run, be, look, find
Adverbs:
Ironically, understandably, happily, quickly
Adjectives:
Big, friendly, beautiful, stilted, gorgeous, adventurous, confident, scented, ungainly, steep, hot, kind, strong, modest, poor, happy, kind