ENGLISH GRAMMAR

The grammatical rules covered by this guide are categorized by part of speech. You will find the categories listed below. English grammar is not always simple to understand, but by referring to this grammar guide you'll be able to remember the rules and apply them with confidence.

NOUNS
Nouns are people, places, and things. They tell us who or what we are talking about. The words cat, Jack, rock, Africa, & it are nouns.

ADJECTIVES
Adjectives modify, or describe, nouns. The words tall, beautiful, irresponsible, & boring are adjectives.

ADVERBS
Adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, or other adverbs. They tell us how, when, & where things happen. They describe quantity, intensity, and opinion.

DETERMINERS
Articles, quantifiers, and other types of determiners modify nouns. They are similar to adjectives in that way. Determiners help us specify which thing we are talking about.

VERBS AND VERB TENSES
Verbs are the action words in English. They tell us what is happening and when (past, present, future). They also express conditions and possibilities.

PUNCTUATION
Punctuation marks are not a part of spoken grammar, but they are essential to good writing.

REPORTING SPEECH
When people say something, we can report what they say directly or refer to what they told us indirectly. Reporting speech is an important area of grammar.

RELATIVE CLAUSES
Use relative clauses in English to give more information about the subject of the sentence.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Nouns

Using nouns correctly in English is relatively simple, with standard rules and only a few exceptions. Use these pages to learn about the English grammar rules for gender, plurals, countable and uncountable nouns, compound nouns, capitalization, nationalities, and forming the possessive.

It's not easy to describe a noun in simple terms, nouns are "things" (and verbs are "actions"). Like food. Food (noun) is something you eat (verb). Or happiness. Happiness (noun) is something you want (verb). Another example is "human being". A human being (noun) is something you are (verb).

What are Nouns?
Nouns answer the questions "What is it?" and "Who is it?" They give names to things, people, and places.

Types
  1.  Countable Nouns, Uncountable Nouns. Eg.: dog/dogs, rice, hair(s)
  2. Proper Nouns (Names). Do we say "Atlantic Ocean" or "the Atlantic Ocean"? Should I write "february" or "February"? Eg.: Shirley, Mr Jeckyll, Thailand, April, Sony 
  3. Possessive 's. Adding 's or ' to show possession. Eg.: John's car, my parents' house
  4. Noun as Adjective. Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun is "acting as" an adjective. Eg.: love story, tooth-brush, bathroom


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