Noun, Pronoun and Verb

1. PARTS OF SPEECH
By
Dr. M. Subitha Jeevanandam
Dept. of English,
E.M.G. Yadava Women’s college,
Madurai - 14

2. • Parts of Speech - Words are divided into different kinds of clauses.
• According to their use; that is according to the work they do in a
sentence.
• Eight in Numbers:
 1. Noun
 2.Pronoun
 3. Verb
 4. Adverb
 5. Adjective
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection

3. Noun
• Word used as the name of a person, place or thing.
• Examples:
• Madurai is on the river Vaigai.
• Milton is an English Poet.
• Ashoka was a wise king.
• The dog is barking.

4. Kinds of Noun
• Nouns are of the following:
• Proper Noun
• Common Noun
• Abstract Noun
• Material Noun
• Collective Noun

5. Proper Noun
• A Special name of a particular person, place, thing or event.
• Always begins with a capital letter.
• Persons— Rajan, Peter, Akbar, Mary, Arun
• Places—Mumbai, London, Paris, Chennai
• Things— Maruti car, Sony Television, Samsung Mobile
• Events— Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games
• Examples: India is our country.
• Suresh is my brother.
• Vaigai is a fast train.

6. Common Noun
• Common noun is a general, ordinary name of a person, place, animal, thing
or event.
• Persons— Girl, Boy, sister, brother player, singer
• Places— Hospital, Country, Town, Park, Garden
• Things— Book, Bag, clothes, Paper
• Events— comedy show, serial, concert, match
• Examples: The tree is very big.
• The book is on the table
• The child is very cute.
• I met your brother.

7. Abstract Noun
• The name of quality that a person or things have, action they take or
state they find themselves in.
• These names cannot been seen, heard, touched or tasted – we can only
feel (Kindness, Beauty, happiness, childhood, richness, bravery, etc.,)
• Examples:
• Akbar was the king of Wisdom.
• Honesty is my policy.
• Always speak the truth.
• I love my childhood memories.

8. Material Noun
• Raw elements or Objects existing in nature
• Iron, rice, cotton, milk, gold, sugar, wheat, water, wool, copper, etc
• Examples:
• Plastic is for ordinary use.
• The house is built of stones.
• Wheat is good for health.
• Iron is a very useful metal.

9. Collective Noun
• Name of a group or collection of similar persons, animals or things.
• A team of cricketers
• A bouquet of flowers
• A flock of sheep
• A Troup of dancers
• Examples:
• I saw a bunch of grapes.
• A crowd of people gathered.
• A committee of five was appointed.

10. Pronoun
• A Pronoun is a word which is used in the place of a noun.
• Pronoun have masculine and feminine gender, Singular and plural
forms
• They have three persons:
• First person
• Second Person
• Third Person

11. First person (Masculine or Feminine)
Singular Plural
I We
Me Our
My Ours
Mine Us

12. Second Person(Masculine or feminine)
• Singular/Plural
• You, Your, Yours
• Examples:
• This is your garden
• When will you come?
• Your son got first prize.
• Third Person
Singular Neuter Plural (All Genders)
Masculine Feminine
He She it they
His Her its their
Him hers theirs
them

13. Verb
• Verb is a doing word. It indicates the action in present, past and future
tenses.
• The girl dances well.
• I am studying in Yadava women’s college.
• The teacher shouted loudly.
1. PRIMARY VERBS
• am, is, are, was, were
• He is calm.
• You are very clever.

14. 2. Regular verbs
• verbs whose forms can be changed into past tense by adding ‘ed’ to
the present tense.
Present Tense Past Tense
want wanted
laugh laughed
Look Looked
Talk Talked
Like Liked
shout shouted

15. 3. Irregular verbs
• Verbs whose forms are changed to past tense in other ways.
Present Tense Past Tense
Go Went
Eat Ate
Buy Bought
Fall Fell
Come Came
Sing Sang
sleep slept

16. • Examples:
• He runs fast.
• He painted the door.
• India won the match.
• Meena went to library.
• My father gave me a camera.

17. • To Be Continued….