Parts of Speech: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

 noun [ nown ]  naming word: a word or group of words used as the name of a class of people, places, or things, or of a specific person, place, or thing.  Proper Nouns and Common Nouns  Proper nouns are nouns that represent a unique entity (like a specific person or a specific place).  Common nouns which describe an entire group of entities (examples would be the nouns village or women).  Proper nouns as a general rule are capitalized in the English language. Common nouns as a general rule are not capitalized.  Sometimes the same word can function as both a common noun and a proper noun, where one such entity is special. For example the common noun god refers to all deities, while the proper noun God specifically refers to the monotheistic God.

 Verbs are perhaps the most important part of speech in the English language. You can't do or be anything unless a verb lets you. Verbs are everywhere, and it's about time you got to know them with this list of verbs of many types.

 What is a verb?  A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state of being.  As you can see from that definition, there are two main categories of verbs: action verbs and state of being verbs (also known as linking verbs).  Because action verbs and linking verbs are strong enough to be used in sentences all by themselves, they are called main verbs.  I love cheese. I turned the page. (action verbs)  I am a teacher. I turned green. (linking verbs)

 The reason that these guys don't get any of the fame that action and linking verbs get is because they don't stand alone as main verbs.  Helping verbs are always helping either an action verb or a linking verb.  I will play the piano. (helping verb and action verb)  I will be a teacher. (helping verb and linking verb)

Action verb with no helping verb I ate five pizzas! Helping verb helping an action verb Now, my stomach will hurt for an hour. Two helping verbs helping an action verb Actually, my stomach will be hurting for a few days.

An adjective is often defined as a word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Adjectives describe nouns in terms of such qualities as size, color, number, and kind. In the sentence The lazy dog sat on the rug, the word lazy is an adjective which gives more information about the noun dog.

 We can add more adjectives to describe the dog as well as in the sentence The lazy, old, brown dog sat on the rug. We can also add adjectives to describe the rug as in the sentence The lazy, old, brown dog sat on the beautiful, expensive, new rug

 The adjectives do not change the basic meaning or structure of the sentence, but they do give a lot more information about the dog and the rug. As you can see in the example above, when more than one adjective is used, a comma (,) is used between the adjectives.  Adorable  Attractive  Alluring  Beautiful  Bewildered