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    The English language is made up of four major word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverb) and even more common word classes. Learn much more about word classes and how you can teach them to your students in the classroom.

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    The English language is made up of four major word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverb) and even more common word classes. Learn much more about word classes and how you can teach them to your students in the classroom.

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    The English language is made up of four major word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverb) and even more common word classes. Learn much more about word classes and how you can teach them to your students in the classroom.

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    PA RT S O F S P E E C H

    Word classes
    A set or category of things having some property or attribute in
    common and differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality.

    Start Journey
    Main word classes

    01 Nouns

    02 Verbs

    03 Adjectives

    04 Adverbs
    CHAPTER 1

    Nouns
    A noun is a word that names something, such as a
    person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, nouns
    can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect
    object, subject complement, object complement,
    appositive, or adjective.

     Two types of nouns


    Nouns referring to people
    • Man • Women • Girl
    • Boy • Mother • Father
    Nouns referring to animals and things
    • Book • Picture • Girl
    • Dog • Place • Computer

    Kindness always come back


    CHAPTER 2

    Verbs
    a word used to describe an action, state, or
    occurrence and forming the main part of the predicate
    of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

     Verbs discribe
    An action
    • Run • Travel • Hit
    An event
    • Rain • Occur
    A situation
    • Be • Seen • Have
    A change
    • Grow • Become • Develop

    Be a warrior, Not a worrier


    CHAPTER 3

    Adjectives
    Adjective are one of the four major word classes,
    along with nouns, verbs and adverbs. Example for
    adjective are : Big, Small, Blue, old, red, Rich, poor,
    nice and etc. They gives us more information about
    people, animals and things represented by nouns
    pronouns.

    Eg: • Expensive
    • Cheep
    • White
    • Kind
    • Young
    • Good
    • Bag
    Whatever you are, be a good one
    CHAPTER 4

    Adverbs
    A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an
    adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group,
    expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance,
    manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then,
    there ).

    Eg:
    • Usefully
    • Kindly
    • Terribly
    • Thankfully
    • Wisely
    • Wrongly
    • Badly
    Set yourself free
    CHAPTER 5

    Other word classes

    Prepositions Pronouns Determiners


    A word governing, and usually preceding, A word that can function as a noun A word, phrase, or affix that occurs
    a noun or pronoun and expressing a phrase used by itself and that refers together with a noun or noun phrase
    relation to another word or element in either to the participants in the and serves to express the reference of
    the clause, as in ‘the man on the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or that noun or noun phrase in the
    platform’, ‘she arrived after dinner’, something mentioned elsewhere in the context.
    ‘what did you do it for ?’. discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
    CHAPTER 5

    Other word classes

    Conjunction Interjection
    a part of speech that connects words, An interjection is a word or expression
    phrases, or clauses that are called the that occurs as an utterance on its own and
    conjuncts of the conjunctions. This expresses a spontaneous feeling or
    definition may overlap with that of other reaction. It is a diverse category,
    parts of speech, so what constitutes a encompassing many different parts of
    "conjunction" must be defined for each speech, such as exclamations, curses,
    language. greetings, response particles, hesitation
    markers, and other words.

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