2. Nouns
• Nouns are the names of persons, places, and things.
• Examples of nouns :
-Teacher, doctor, parent, president
-House, school, office, coffee shop
-Ball, wagon, car, magazine
3. 1- Proper Nouns – name a particular person, place or thing
- Africa Honda January Ahmad
2- Abstract Nouns – name things you can’t perceive with your five senses-advice
- anger belief help love
3- Collective Nouns – a group of people or things
-army group family bunch
4- Compound Nouns – made up of two or more words
-homemade inside moonlight blackboard
5- Countable Concrete Nouns – can be perceived with your five senses and can be
counted
-book cat photograph pen
6- Uncountable Concrete Nouns – cannot be counted
-air water currency information
4. Verbs
• Verbs are action words or being* words.
• Examples of verbs :
-Action words: to jump, to run, to sit, to stand
-Being words: to be
5. Adjectives
• Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns.
• Examples of adjectives :
– The red ball
– The fast child
– The tall woman
– The beautiful flower
6. • The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
-Fox and dog are nouns.
-Quick, brown and lazy are adjectives; they describe the nouns.
-Jumped is a verb; it tells us what the fox did.
7. Adverbs
• Adverbs are words that describe or modify verbs, adjectives, or
other adverbs.
• Examples of adverbs :
– The girl wrote quickly.
– The shoppers picked carefully through the apples.
– His wagon is very red.
– We went to the park yesterday. (Yesterday is an adverb because it
modifies when “we” went to the park.)
8. Pronouns
• Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns or other pronouns. They
are used to make writing and speech more smooth and less repetitive.
Singular Plural
Subject Object Reflexive Subject Object Reflexive
First I You Myself We Our Ourselves
Second You Yourself You Yourself
Third Masculine He Him Himself They Them Themselves
Feminine She Her Herself
Neuter It It Itself
9. Pronouns
• Examples of pronouns :
– Bob filled his car with gas, then drove it to the beach.
– I put the dog’s bone in its cage.
– You can deliver the roses at noon. Just bring them up to the house.
– Jim introduced himself to the crowd.
10. Prepositions
• Prepositions are words that link other parts of a sentence
together and are often used to show relationships between those
parts, such as where one object is positioned next to another.
11. Prepositions
• Examples of prepositions:
– On, under, of, at, over, with, by, near, far, close.
• Examples of prepositional phrases (the underlined word in each
is the preposition):
– On the car.
– Under the office.
– Of the people
– At the fair.
– Over the moon.
12. Articles
• There are three articles in English: a, an, and the.
– A and An are called indefinite articles.
– The is called the definite article.
• Articles modify nouns. As such, they are considered both articles
and adjectives.
• Examples of articles:
– I want a book.
(I don’t want any specific book. Any book will work.)
– I want the book.
(I want one specific book.)
13. Interjections
• Interjections are words that are used to exclaim or protest or
command. They can stand on their own or be part of a larger
sentence.
• Examples of interjections:
– No!
– Uhm, I don’t know where he is.
– Phew! That was close.
