traditional grammar classifies words based on eight Parts of speech : verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjective, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in on sentence and a verb or adjective in the next
a.Verbs : the verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. The verb or compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and expresses action, events or states of being. The verb or compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of the sentence
verbs can be divided into three types
Ordinary verbs: go, come, clean
Auxiliary verbs: (will, would, shall, should, can could, may, might, to be, to have, to do, dare, need, used to, ought to)
Primary verbs: (to be, to have, to do, to need, to dare) they are called as primary verbs, because they can be used as ordinary verb in a sentence and as an auxiliary in another
b. Noun: is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct abject, an indirect object, a subject complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb
Noun Gender: may common nouns, like "engineer" or "teacher", can refer to men or women. Once, many English nouns would change form depending on their gender — for example, a man was called an "author" while a woman was called an "authoress" — but this use of gender-specific nouns is very rare today
Plural nouns: most nouns change their form to indicate number by adding "-s" or "-es". There are other nouns which form the plural by changing the last letter before adding "s". Some words ending in "f" form the plural by deleting "f" and adding "ves", and words ending in "y" form the plural by deleting "y" and adding "ies". Other nouns form the plural irregularly ( ox = oxen)
Possessive Nouns: in the possessive case, a noun or pronoun changes its form to show that it owns or is closely related to something else. Usually, nouns become possessive by adding a combination of an apostrophe and the letter "s". You can form the possessive case of a singular noun that doesn’t end in "s" by adding an apostrophe and "s". You can form the possessive case of a singular by adding an apostrophe alone or by adding an apostrophe and "s". You can form the possessive case of a plural noun that doesn’t end in "s" by adding an apostrophe and "s". You can form the possessive case of a plural noun that does end in "s" by adding an apostrophe
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