ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR GRADE 10 BY G.H.C.HAMBAYI

Parts of Speech Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections

Nouns and Pronous

Nouns A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea

Persons Places Things Ideas Teacher cities baseball leadership Mrs Musa Lusaka Hoe cowardice Family Monze canoe liberty

There are several kinds of nouns: Proper and common, Compound, and Collective.

Proper and Common Nouns A Proper noun is the name or title of a particular person, place, thing, or idea; it always begin with a capital letter. A Common noun refers to a category or a class of people, places, thing, or ideas. You cannot capitalize a common noun unless it begins a sentence. Common Noun - She is going to school. Proper Noun - She is going to Chelstone School

Exercise 1 Label the following nouns as Proper or Common. river newspaper town October Richard Choma

Compound Nouns A Compound noun consist of two or more words used together to form a single noun. One kind of Compound noun consists of two or more words joined together. blue + print = blueprint Base + ball = baseball

A third kind of compound noun consists of two words often us they are not joined. Mountain lion Ice cream

A forth kind of compound noun is a proper name that consists of more than one word. Mrs Hambayi Gulf Stream

Collective Nouns A collective noun refers to a group of people, places, things, or ideas. The herd moved slowly across the prairie. Our family discussed vacation plans. [Herd and family are collective nouns.

Exercise 2 Identify the nouns in the following sentences. Example: The aeroplane descended in the clouds. Answer : aeroplane, clouds 1. He was a fellow named Bill. 2. Soon the first passenger walked down the steps 3. He headed for the line if taxis outside the terminal.

Pronouns A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun. Pronouns identify persons, places, things, and ideas without renaming them. Jane is an athlete. She trains everyday. Many people attended the concert. They enjoyed it. The noun that a pronoun replaced is the antecedent of the pronoun.

Personal Pronouns Personal pronoun require different forms to express person, number, and gender . When you write or speak about yourself, you use first-persons pronouns: I, me, we, us. When you refer to your audience, you use the second-person pronoun, you. When you refer to other people or things, you use third-person pronouns, such as he, she, they, it and them.

Possessive Pronoun Personal pronouns have possessive forms to show ownership or belonging. The house is ours. Is that pen mine?