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The Parts of Speech

1. nouns 2. adjectives 3. pronouns 4. verbs

5. adverbs 6. prepositions 4. conjunctions 8. interjections

1. Nouns (usually people, animals, places, things)

- common nouns: regular people, animals, places, or things – they can be touched

e.g.

- abstract nouns: qualities, thoughts, ideas, concepts – they cannot be touched

e.g.

- proper nouns: special names given to nouns – those with capitals

e.g.

- collective nouns: a name for a group of people, animals, places, or things

(people) e.g. a class of students,

(animals) e.g. a school of fish,

(things) e.g. a pile of books,

More about nouns

- singular / plural (whether there is one or there are more than one)
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e.g. boy -> knife -> tomato ->

girl -> wolf -> potato ->

foot -> sheep -> scissors?

child -> news -> trousers?

- possessive nouns (adding apostrophe ‘s’ : ‘s or s’)

e.g.

- countable / uncountable (whether the nouns can be counted or not)

countable e.g.

uncountable e.g.

A bit more on nouns

- What about actions?

- What are nouns’ roles in a sentence? (HINT: think S-V-O)