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| 750444441 | A Noun is | A person, place, thing, idea | 0 | |
| 750444442 | What are 6 Types of nouns? | Countable Uncountable Proper Common Abstract Collective | 1 | |
| 750444443 | Countable Noun | Countable nouns relate to things which can actually be counted. These nouns can then have a/an or the before them and can have both a singular and a plural form: e.g.: There is a lion, three elephants and a flock of parrots in the forest. | 2 | |
| 750444444 | Uncountable Noun | An uncountable noun is something like: water pudding evidence furniture | 3 | |
| 750444445 | Proper Noun | A proper noun is a noun that in its primary application refers to a unique entity, such as London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft, as distinguished from a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities (city, planet, person, corporation), or non-unique instances of a certain class (a city, another planet, these persons, our corporation) | 4 | |
| 750444446 | Common Noun | a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities (city, planet, person, corporation), or non-unique instances of a certain class (a city, another planet, these persons, our corporation) | 5 | |
| 752089960 | A concrete noun | Concrete nouns refer to physical entities that can, in principle at least, be observed by at least one of the senses (for instance, chair, apple, Janet or atom). | 6 | |
| 750444447 | Abstract Noun | Abstract nouns, on the other hand, refer to abstract objects; that is, ideas or concepts (such as justice or hatred). While this distinction is sometimes exclusive, some nouns have multiple senses, including both concrete and abstract ones; consider, for example, the noun art, which usually refers to a concept (e.g., Art is an important element of human culture) but which can refer to a specific artwork in certain contexts (e.g., I put my daughter's art up on the fridge). | 7 | |
| 750444448 | Verbs | A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). | 8 | |
| 750444449 | There are 15 Types of Verb Categories: | Transitive Intransitive Regular Irregular Participles Gerunds Infinitives Modals Multi-word verbs Phrasal Tenses Active Voice Passive Voice Imperative | 9 | |
| 750444450 | Transitive Verb | A transitive verb is followed by a noun or noun phrase. These noun phrases are not called predicate nouns but are instead called direct objects because they refer to the object that is being acted upon. For example: "My friend read the newspaper." "The teenager earned a speeding ticket." A way to identify a transitive verb is to invert the sentence, making it passive. For example: "The newspaper was read by my friend." "A speeding ticket was earned by the teenager." | 10 | |
| 750444451 | Intransitive Verb | An intransitive verb is one that does not have a direct object. Intransitive verbs may be followed by an adverb (a word that addresses how, where, when, and how often) or end a sentence. For example: "The woman spoke softly." "The athlete ran faster than the official." "The boy wept." | 11 | |
| 750444452 | Regular Verb | A regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. | 12 | |
| 750444453 | Irregular Verb | A verb whose conjugation follows a different pattern is called an irregular verb. (This is one instance of the distinction between regular and irregular inflection, which can also apply to other word classes, such as nouns and adjectives.) | 13 | |
| 750444454 | Participles | The two types of participle in English are traditionally called the present participle (forms such as writing, singing and raising; these same forms also serve as gerunds and verbal nouns), and the past participle (forms such as written, sung and raised; regular participles such as the last, as well as some irregular ones, have the same form as the finite past tense). | 14 | |
| 750444455 | Gerunds (Verb) | Every gerund, without exception, ends in ing. Gerunds are not, however, all that easy to identify. The problem is that all present participles also end in ing. What is the difference? Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Present participles, on the other hand, complete progressive verbs or act as modifiers. | 15 | |
| 750444456 | Infinitives (Verb) | In traditional descriptions of English, the infinitive is the basic dictionary form of a verb when used non-finitely, with or without the particle to. Thus to go is an infinitive, as is go in a sentence like "I must go there" (but not in "I go there", where it is a finite verb). The form without to is called the bare infinitive, and the form with to is called the full infinitive or to-infinitive. | 16 | |
| 750444457 | Modal (Verbs) | The modal verbs of English are a small class of auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility, obligation, etc.). They can be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participle or infinitive forms) and by the fact that they do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular. The principal English modal verbs are can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. | 17 | |
| 750444458 | Multi-Word Verbs | Multi-word verbs are verbs that consist of more than one word,[1] e.g. had better, used to, be going to, ought to. Although they can be synonymous with phrasal verbs, in the strict sense there is a distinction between the two, where multi-word verbs is a term that covers both phrasal verbs (verbs + adverbs) and prepositional verbs (verbs + prepositions).[2] They are used as modals, but they are semi-modal rather than modal verbs. | 18 | |
| 750444459 | Phrasal Verbs | ... | 19 | |
| 750444462 | Active Voice | A sentence is said to be in Active Voice when the subject does something. | 20 | |
| 750444463 | Passive Voice | A sentence is said to be in Passive Voice when something is done to the subject. | 21 | |
| 750444464 | Imperative | The imperative is a grammatical mood used to form commands or requests, including the giving of prohibition or permission, or any other kind of exhortation. An example of a verb in the imperative mood is be in the English sentence "Please be quiet". Imperatives of this type imply a second person subject (you); some languages also have first and third person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let him/her/them (do something)" | 22 | |
| 750444465 | Adjectives | Adjectives describe nouns by answering one of these three questions: What kind is it? How many are there? Which one is it? An adjective can be a single word, a phrase, or a clause. | 23 | |
| 750444466 | Comparative Adjective | The comparative is signaled in English by the suffix -er or by a word of comparison (as, more, less) and the conjunction- or preposition-like word as or than. | 24 | |
| 750444467 | Superlative Adjective | the superlative is the form of an adverb or adjective that expresses a degree of the adverb or adjective being used that is greater than any other possible degree of the given descriptor. English superlatives are typically formed with the suffix -est (e.g. healthiest, weakest) or the word most (most recent, most interesting). | 25 | |
| 750444468 | Adverb | Adverbs can be single words, or they can be phrases or clauses. Adverbs answer one of these four questions: How? When? Where? and Why? | 26 | |
| 750444469 | There are 7 Adverb Types | Degree Manner Time Focus Frequency Quantity Attitude Markers | 27 | |
| 750444470 | Adverb of Degree | Adverbs of degree tell us about the intensity or degree of an action, an adjective or another adverb. Common adverbs of degree: Almost, nearly, quite, just, too, enough, hardly, scarcely, completely, very, extremely. Adverbs of degree are usually placed: before the adjective or adverb they are modifying: e.g. The water was extremely cold. | 28 | |
| 750444471 | Adverb of Manner | We use adverbs of manner to describe how somebody does something. Ex: He closed the door quietly (quietly is the adverb) The train arrived late (late is the adverb) Jane is good at driving - She drives well (well is the adverb) | 29 | |
| 750444472 | Adverb of Time | Adverbs of time tell us when an action happened, but also for how long, and how often. It differs from Frequency adverbs in that it is more specific - daily, hourly, weekly, yearly.. | 30 | |
| 750444473 | Adverb of Focus | A focusing adverb limits the sense of a sentence by focusing attention on the word or phrase it modifies. Focus adverbs include also, just, mostly, either, neither, even, only, and mainly. They belong, as a rule, right in front of the word or phrase they are intended to spotlight. Even his mother could not understand why her oldest child stole from the poor box. His mother could not even understand why her oldest child stole from the poor box. His mother could not understand why even her oldest child stole from the poor box. His mother could not understand why her oldest child stole even from the poor box. In each sentence, the focusing adverb "even" changes the meaning of the sentence, by focusing on the word or phrase it modifies, emphasizing it, and thereby limiting the meaning of the sentence. | 31 | |
| 750444474 | Adverb of Frequency | An adverb of frequency IS an adverb of time, just more general. For example: daily is time, but often is frequency. | 32 | |
| 750444475 | Adverb of Quantity | An adverb of quantity is an adverb that concerns itself with how many. "all," "both," "many," "every" and "some." no adverb of quantity ends in "-ly." Common quantifying adverbs include words such as all, every, many, some, few, less, both.... | 33 | |
| 750444476 | Adverb of Attitude Markers | Adverbs that describe the attitude? Fortunately, Lovingly, Obstinately....? | 34 | |
| 750444478 | There are Determiners | Possessive adjectives Articles Demonstrative Adjectives Quantifiers | 35 | |
| 750444479 | Possessive Adjectives | Possessive adjectives show ownership or belonging. They must go somewhere before a noun. My, Mine, Your, Yours, His, Her, Hers, Theirs, Ours, Its, | 36 | |
| 750444480 | Articles | Definite article - the Indefinite - a, an | 37 | |
| 750444481 | Demonstrative Adjectives | The demonstrative adjectives-this/that/these/those-tell us where an object is located and how many objects there are. This/ThatThis and that are used to point to one object. This points to something nearby while that points to something "over there." | 38 | |
| 750444482 | Quantifiers | We use quantifiers when we want to give someone information about the number of something: how much or how many. | 39 | |
| 750444483 | There are 8 Prepositions | Time Place Direction Contrast Exemplifcation Exception Cause and effect Dependent | 40 | |
| 750444484 | Prepositions of Time | At, In, or On - At for precise time in - months, years, centuries, & long periods On for days, dates | 41 | |
| 750444485 | Prepositions of Place | at - a point in - enclosed space on - surface above, across, after, against, along, among, around, behind, below, beside, between, by, close to, down, off, onto, opposite, out of, over, past, through, to, towards, under, up | 42 | |
| 750444486 | Prepositions of Direction | Towards, In front of...? | 43 | |
| 750444487 | Prepositions of Contrast | In spite of, Despite | 44 | |
| 750444488 | Prepositions of Exemplification | For instance, For example | 45 | |
| 750444489 | Prepositions of Exception | Apart from, except | 46 | |
| 750444490 | Prepositions of Cause and Effect | Because of.., Due to the fact, | 47 | |
| 750444491 | There are 4 Different Type of Pronouns | Personal Possessive Relative Reflective | 48 | |
| 750444492 | Personal Pronouns | I, me, you, we, he, him, she it, us, they, them | 49 | |
| 750444493 | Possessive Pronouns | mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs | 50 | |
| 750444494 | Relative Pronouns | There are five relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that* | 51 | |
| 750444495 | Reflective Pronouns | reflexive pronoun singular myself yourself himself, herself, itself plural ourselves yourselves themselves | 52 | |
| 750444496 | There are 7 Types of Conjunctions | Reason Addition Contrast Time Condition Purpose Result | 53 | |
| 750444497 | Conjunctions of Addition | 1. Conjunctions of addition and replacement Additive conjunctions simply add more information to what is already there. Examples of additive conjunctions include: and, also, in addition, not only ... but also, moreover, further, besides. | 54 | |
| 750444498 | Conjunctions of Contrast | 2. Conjunctions of comparison, contrast and concession Comparative conjunctions are used to link two ideas that are considered to be similar. Comparative conjunctions include the terms: in the same way, likewise, just as, both ... and. | 55 | |
| 750444499 | Conjunctions of Time | 5. Conjunctions of time Conjunctions of time locate or sequence events or ideas in time. Ideas or events can be located in real world time or text time. Examples of conjunctions of time include: after, afterwards, before, previously, prior to, up 'til now, to the present, at present, second(ly), third(ly), finally. | 56 | |
| 750444500 | Conjunctions of Cause and Condition | 4. Conjunctions of cause and condition Conjunctions of cause highlight a cause-effect relationship between two ideas or give a reason why something happens or is the case. Examples of conjunctions of cause include the terms: for this reason, as, because, because of this, therefore, thus, hence, as a result, consequently, since, so. | 57 | |
| 750444502 | Conjunctions of Purpose | He studied hard in order that he may have a better future. Watch the path, lest you trip and fall. I have it written down so that I can remember. Keep the food in the fridge that it can stay fresh. | 58 | |
| 750444503 | Conjunctions of Result | ... | 59 | |
| 750444504 | Exclamations | To show a strong feeling, especially in information spoken language. | 60 | |
| 750444505 | Categories of Exclamation | Doubt Pain Joy Surprise | 61 | |
| 750444460 | Tenses | Tenses are attributes of a verb that tell us about time. There are 6 tenses in English | 62 | |
| 752331048 | Simple present | actions that happen regularly or are permanently happening | 63 | |
| 752331049 | Simple past | actions that took place in the past | 64 | |
| 752331050 | Simple future | actions that have not taken place yet, but will take place in the future. | 65 |
