GRAMMAR

ACCURACY
NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE,
and ADVERB
The old brown cat lay

lazily on the leather

couch.
NOUN
Latin Word “NOMEN” – NAME
- names a person, a place, a
thing, an abstract quality, or a
collective group.
Two Kinds Of Nouns
Proper Noun
- Name, or things a particular
individual person, place, event.
Common Noun
- Used to refer to a member of
classes of people, places, or
things.
Two Subtypes of
Common Noun
Mass Noun
– refers to objects that cannot be counted but can
be measured.
– intangible things, abstract ideas, emotions,
natural phenomena, modes of behavior, material
things (liquids and particles), sciences.

Count Noun
– refer to an individual object or objects in a
countable collection.
Other Kinds Of Noun

Collective Noun
- refer to a number of people or to group of
animals or similar objects that come together
and are taken as a unit.
Abstract Noun
- used to name a quality or an idea or state.
Concrete Noun
- have physical forms, can be seen, touched,
tasted, heard, or smelled.
 Other Kinds Of Noun

Compound Noun
- made up of two or more nouns or a noun and
some other word/s which form a unit.

Agent Noun
- formed by using root words with certain
suffixes.
- sion, tion, ment, ness, ess, ence, ure, al, ity, age,
ism, ist, dom, hood, ee, er, or.
VERB
- denotes an action, but it can
also express a state of being.

Action : cooks, plays, reading,

made
State of being : is, are, was, were
 Classification Of Verbs
Transitive Verb
- requires an object to complete the meaning of
the sentence.
- answers the question what or whom.

Intransitive Verb
- does not require an object to complete it
meaning.
- cannot answer the question why?
 Classification Of Verbs
Linking Verb
- shows the relationship between the subject and the
noun, the pronoun, or the adjective that follows it.
- is, are, was, were
- appear, become, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, seem,
smell, sound, stand, taste, and turn.

Auxiliary Verb
- used to help a principal verb in forming tenses, voice,
mood, and certain precise ideas.
- have, be, may, do, shall, will, can or must.
Kinds Of Verbs

Regular Verbs
- form their past and past participle by
adding d or ed to the base form.

Irregular verbs
- forms their past and past participle in a
variety of words.
ADJECTIVE
- used to modify nouns and pronouns.

Kinds of Adjective:
Descriptive adjective
- describes the quality of a noun or a pronoun.
Limiting adjective
- point out or denote the quantity or number of a
noun or a pronoun.
Kinds Of Descriptive Adjective
Common adjective
- denote the quality of a person, place , or
thing.

Proper adjective
- are derived from proper nouns. As such,
they should begin with capital letters.
Kinds Of Limiting Adjective
Article – a, an, and the
Pronominal
- kinds of pronouns that may be used a
adjectives
- possessive, demonstrative, indefinite,
interrogative
Numerical
- either cardinal or ordinal.
ADVERB
- word that modifies a verb, an adjective,
or another adverb.
- answer the questions when, why, how, in
what degree, and in what condition.
Kinds Of Adverb

1. Adverb of place and motion – Where?

2. Adverb of time and order – When?
3. Adverb of manner – How?
4. Adverb of Degree or Quantity – To
what degree? Or How much?
5. Adverb of frequency – How often?
6. Adverb of affirmation and negation