Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Verbs are words used to express action, condition, or a state of being. They are used in
speech to move the meanings of sentences along. An action verb expresses an action.
Words such as throw, create, and draw express physical action. Mental actions can be
expressed by words such as believe, desire, and visualize. Verbs such as be and feel are
used to show states of being. Helping verbs, or auxiliary verbs, are used to help the main
verb express action or create verb phrases. Some examples of auxiliary verbs are would,
might and am.
Nouns are words that name a person, place, thing or idea. A few examples of nouns
are person, place, thing and idea. Proper nouns name specific things such as Jeff,
California, and English. To change a noun from singular form to plural form an s or es
must be added to the end of the word. Two examples are thing/things and dish/dishes.
Some nouns have irregular plural forms and are a little harder to spell sometimes. A
couple of these nouns are man/men, and reality/realities. To show ownership, one must
add an apostrophe s to the end of a singular noun, or just an apostrophe to a plural noun.
Examples of the possessive form are Jeff’s possession and fools’ wisdom.
Pronouns are words used in place of nouns to shorten a repeated noun that has already
been mentioned. The noun that the pronoun replaces is called the antecedent of the
pronoun. My girlfriend goes shopping a lot. She spends a bunch of money on garbage. In
these last two sentences, she is the pronoun, and girlfriend is the antecedent. There are
many forms of pronouns, such as personal, possessive, reflexive, intensive, indefinite,
demonstrative, interrogative, relative and reciprocal.
Adjectives are very useful words. They add information to sentences by telling us
more about nouns and pronouns, usually by describing, identifying, or quantifying those
words. Adjectives usually come before the words they modify, but sometimes follow
linking verbs. Here are two examples. She is a nice woman. That woman is nice.
Quantifying adjectives come in the form of articles and numbers such as an, and twenty-
one.
The preposition is almost always before the noun or pronoun and that is why it is called a
preposition. The preposition and the object of the preposition together are called a
prepositional phrase. In the sentence She went to the mall, to the mall is the prepositional
phrase.
(1)Hey! This class keeps me from (2)sleeping in all (3)day; (4)although, (5)it has a
(6)negative
(7)Preposition (8)Adverb
effect on my sleep, because I like staying up (7)all night, or until I can (8)hardly keep my
eyes open.