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Every single word we use belongs to the part of speech.That's what I learned from this unit. This unit helped me to understand how the English as a language functions and this will improve my reading and writing skills. Even though I have studied it in my lower classes, and we have been using it in our daily life, I now feel that I will be clearer from now on wards on what I speak and write. This unit helped me to brush up what I have learnt and also added more to my grammatical knowledge. This was really an interesting topic. I definitely want to learn more on this. Overview of Parts of Speech Words are the smallest elements in English Language. When a group of words makes a complete sense we call it a Sentence. Words can be classified into several types or Parts of Speech according to its use and functions. There are eight major Parts of Speech. 1. NOUN A noun is the name of a person, place, animal,thing, qualities or ideas. Example: David, cat etc. There are many different types of nouns, like, common noun, proper noun, compound noun, abstract noun and collective nouns. Proper nouns should always be written with a capital letter. Apart from this nouns are again classified as Countable nouns(that can be counted) and Uncountable nouns(that cannot be counted, eg. music). 2.ADJECTIVES Adjectives are used to describe nouns. They add something to the meaning of the nouns. Adjectives usually precedes the nouns or pronouns which it modifies. eg. tall, dark, beautiful 3. ARTICLE Articles mainly depends on whether you are referring to any member of a group or to a specific member of the group. There are 2 types of articles. a) Indefinite articles (a or an): referring to any member of the group b) Definite articles (The): The definite article is used before singular or plural nouns when the nouns is particular or specific. There are certain rules where we can and cannot use 'The'. 4. VERBS A verb is a word which expresses an action, state or event. ex. watch, play,appear. All verbs are either Transitive or Intransitive verbs. a) Transitive verb is a verb that is followed directly by an object. ex: Ram saw a snake. b) Intransitive verbs verb that cannot be followed directly by an object. ex : go, fall 5. ADVERBS Adverbs add meaning or information to the action, quality or state denoted by a verb. ex. He writes slowly. There are 5 main types of Adverbs. 1. Adverbs of Manner - well, slowly, loudly 2. Adverbs of Place - here, there,up, out. 3. Adverbs of Time - Today, Tomorrow, soon 4. Adverb of Degree - very, rather, most 5. Adverb of Frequency - once, usually, sometimes Adverbs are normally formed by adding 'ly' to the adjective. 6. GERUND Gerund is the 'ing' form of a verb used as a noun.A gerund is used in the same way as a noun, ie., as an object or subject 7.PRONOUNS A pronoun is a word which is used instead of noun. ex: me, her, mine, his Different kinds of Pronouns are, a) Personal - I, me, him b) Possessive- mine, yours, hers c) Reflexive - myself, yourself,herself d) Relative - which, what, whose 8) PREPOSITIONS & CONJUNCTIONS Preposition shows the relation between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence. ex: on, under, near Conjunction is a word that joins words or group of words together. ex: but, and, or
