English in use.

By mark

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Main types of grammar.

Nouns

Verbs

Adverbs

Adjectives

A noun by any other name!

Which of the following is a noun?

•Tall

•Slow

•Time

•Giraffe

•Then

Did you get the answer?

Actually there were two:

Time, and Giraffe.

Both are names of things.

What types of nouns are there?

People have names

Things have names

Animals have names

Places have names

Emotions have labels

Things have categories and labels

Senses have descriptive words

Me, I, Mark.

Table, computer

George, Rhino

England, London

Tired, happy

Cutlery, spoon

Smell, deliciousAnd so on…

How about verbs then?Which of the following is a verb?

Goat

Tree

Small

Gentle

Cooking

Read

Which was it?

Again there were two to choose.

Cooking, continuously.

Read, to read something.

Types of verb (to do words)

Basically, anything that has a process is a verb, if you do it, it’s a verb, i.e. go, run, do ,make; seeing, writing, playing… and so on.

How to add meaning, then?

To add meaning to the thing or process there are other words you can use. These words expand our understanding of something.

For example: instead of ‘the tree’, you could help explain by adding extra words ‘the magnificent tree’, or ‘the hallowed tree’, or even ‘the dishevelled, forlorn tree!’

Another example: ‘Typing’ at the computer, could be enhanced by ‘excitedly typing’, or even, ‘lethargically and unevenly typing’.

Summary

Nouns

Verbs

Adverbs

Adjectives

Review Quiz:

Which type of words are these:

You, big, friendly, beautiful, happy, strong, kind, adventurous, confident, apple, James, fruit, city, table, computer, hot, ironically, steep, tempestuous, gorgeous, scented, stilted, run, Mary, be, look, find, ungainly, modest, poor, quickly, happily, understandably!

We have looked at the following:

Review Quiz answersNouns:You, James, apple, fruit, city, table, computer, Mary

Verbs:

Run, be, look, find

Adverbs:

Ironically, understandably, happily, quickly

Adjectives:

Big, friendly, beautiful, stilted, gorgeous, adventurous, confident, scented, ungainly, steep, hot, kind, strong, modest, poor, happy, kind