English  Grammar Lessons

 

According to Wren & Martin

 

(1) A Noun is a name given to any person, place, animal or thing.

 

Examples......

Common Nouns     Proper Nouns (Names)

Girl                              Anita

Boy                              Aditya

Dog                             Drupy

Horse                         Black Beauty

City                              Pune

Country                    Germany

University               University of Pune

College                     Symbiosis college

 

EXERCISE  : Identify the proper nouns in the following list and write them with a capital letter.

 william Shakespeare, secretary, new south wales, prisoner, romeo and Juliet, merdeka square, april, thames, saint valentine, seaweed, city traffic, snow, blue mountain, apollo 11, jefferson high school

 

(2)  PRONOUN

A pronoun is a word used for a noun or a clause. 

 

Examples: 

Mike(Proper Noun) is not here; he(Pronoun) is ill.

He failed, which(Pronoun) broke his heart.  

 

(3) A  Verb is a word denoting some action.

The easiest way is to first find the verb, an action or state of being. Is, are, was, walk,sleep,dream,seem, fight,fly,read,talk,have,got,bought,gave,breath.

Examples: He walks. I go. She sleeps. They swim.

 

(4)An Adverb is a word telling you more about the verb in that sentence.

 

Example: He walks fast. He is(verb) very clever(Adverb).

 

(5)An Adjective is a word which adds a meaning to a noun in that sentence.

 

Examples: A good boy(\(\(\(noun). A dark room(noun).

 

Adjectives describe nouns.  Adverbs describe verbs.

 

EXAMPLE : I quickly cleaned the messy room. I=noun (pronoun and subject). Cleaned=verb. Quickly=adverb. Room=noun (direct object). Messy=adjective.

 

(6)Articles  a,an,the (There are only 3 articles in the English language).

 

Questions to be asked to find out whether the word in a sentence is a noun, pronoun, proper noun, adverb, adjective,

NOUN : Ask the question "WHO"

VERB : Ask the question "WHAT" is that one doing

PROPER NOUN : Is there a "NAME" in the sentence

PRONOUN : Is there a substitute for the Name Like "He,She,It"

ADVERB : Is there any word describing more the verb.

ADJECTIVE : Is there any word describing more the noun.

ARTICLE : Is there the word "a , an , the " in the sentence.