1. Traditional grammar recognizes 8 parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and Interjection. Many words can function as more than one part of speech, for example: 1.The paint is wet 2.Please paint the ceiling next

3. The cat in gloves catches no mice In addition to the tradisional definition of a noun, grammarians describe a noun as follows: The kind of word that is often marked with an article (a spoon, an apple, the newspaper) The kind of word that can be made plural (one cat, two cats) or possessive the cat’s paw The kind of word that when derived form another word typically takes one of these endings: player, justice, happiness, division, guidance, reference, pavement, childhood, kingdom, agency, tourist, cincerity, censorship The kind of word that can fill one these positions in a sentence: subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object compliment, object of the preposion

4. Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes Clothe an idea in words, and it loses its freedom of movement Idle hands are the devil’s workshop Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf The ultimate cencorship is the flick of the dial Figure s won’t lie, but liars will figure Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions The winds and the waves are always on the side of the abblest navigators Problems are opportunities in work clothes