1. PART OF SPEECH8th ENGLISH CLASS
ALSALC UNSOED
BY. ENGLISH DIVISION
NOUNS AND
ADJECTIVES
2. PARTS OF SPEECH
1. a noun
2. a pronoun
3. a verb
5. a adverb
6. a preposition
7. a conjunction
8. an interjection
is the name of anything
takes the place of a noun
express action or state being
modifies a noun or a pronoun
modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
connects words, phrases, and clauses
express strong feeling
ex : pen, air, happiness
ex : he, she, yourself
ex. eat, see, watch
ex. cold, sad
ex. well, quickly
4. an adjective
shows a relationship between its object and another word in sentence
ex. at, on, in
ex. and, which, nevertheless
ex. wow! , cool!
4. Noun
A noun is a word for a person, place, or thing. (You might like to think of nouns as naming words.) Everything we can
see or talk about is represented by a word which names it. That "naming word" is called a noun.
Sometimes a noun will be the name for something we can touch (e.g., lion, cake, computer), and sometimes a noun
will be the name for something we cannot touch (e.g., bravery, mile, joy).
soldier - Alan - cousin - Frenchman ( names for people)
rat - zebra - lion - aardvark ( names for animals)
house - London - factory - shelter ( names for places)
table - frame - printer - chisel ( names for objects)
lead - nitrogen - water - ice (names for substances)
kindness - beauty - bravery - wealth - faith (names for qualities)
rowing - cooking - barking - reading - listening (names for actions)
month - inch - day - pound - ounce (names for measures)
6. 1. Countable Nouns and Non-Countable Nouns
A. Countable Nouns
The noun that we can count one by one the number of these nouns. Usually we call these
countable noun with the plural noun, so we should put “s” in the end of the words.
Ex :
Books
Chairs
Doctors
Balloons
7. 1. Countable Nouns and Non-Countable Nouns
B. Non-Countable Nouns
A non-countable noun (or mass noun as it's also known) is a noun without a plural form. Non-
countable nouns refer to things that cannot be counted
Non-countable Noun>
Attempt At Making It
Plural
music five musics X
furniture five furnitures X
tennis five tennises X
mercury five mercuries X
Ex :
Non-countable Noun>
Music
Furniture
tennis
mercury
8. 2. Proper And Common noun
A. Proper Nouns
Proper noun is a name a special person, place, or thing
and begin with capital letters
B. Common Noun
Common Noun are all over nouns begin with small letters
Example :
Love could bring marriage to Andi and Siti
CommonCommon Proper
Proper
9. 4. COMPOUND AND SIMPLE NOUNS
• Compound nouns are made up of more than one words such as : dining
room, Bill of rights, and home run
• Simple nouns are made up of one word such as : table, house,
computer, and cake
10. 3. CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT NOUNS
• Concrete nouns are the name things that exist physically such as : bird,
hair, and toy
• Abstract nouns are the name things that we can not touch and see
physically. Ex : ideas, characteristics, pride, goodness and success
