PARTS OF SPEECH (PART IV)

 

PARTS OF SPEECH

                               (PART IV)

 

i)              Parts of Speech are types of words in grammar.

ii)           There are many different categories in words.

iii)         Every word in any sentence is from these categories.

Noun:

Noun is a word that contains:

i)              Person

ii)           Place

iii)         Thing

iv)         Idea

Examples:

Sachin – Person

Taj Mahal – Place

Books – Thing

Bravery – Idea

Classification of nouns:

i)              Proper and common nouns

ii)           Countable and uncountable nouns

iii)         Collective nouns

iv)         Concrete nouns and abstract nouns

 

i)              Proper noun and common noun:

Proper noun: Name of a particular place or thing.  

Example: Sachin, New Grammar Tree (Name of a particular book), Michal Phelps, India

Common noun: Name we give in general to all persons, places or things.

Example: Person, Book, Swimmer, Country, etc.

 

ii)           Collective noun:

Collective noun refers to a group or collection of the same kind.

Example: A bunch of books (Here, bunch is a collection of books), A litter of puppies, A gaggle of geese, A pride of lions, A troop of monkeys, A band of musicians, etc.

 

(Let’s look into the remaining types and their examples in the next part)

 

AUTHOR

Dr L Suresh

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science

Coimbatore - 641020

Contact: 9944138137

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