noums in inglish

noums in inglish

1. DEFINITIONS

   • Nouns refer to persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc. Nouns encompass most of the words of a language. Noun can be a/an - Person – a name for a person: - Max, Julie, Catherine, Michel, Bob, etc. Animal – a name for an animal: - dog, cat, cow, kangaroo,
     • noun types
       • COMMON NOUNS
         • They are those that refer to general entities and that do not specify any particular individual.
           • hings: Table, chair, pencil, computer. People: Girl, mother, sister, teacher. Animals: Spider, elephant, horse, worm. Places: House, kitchen, country, park.
             • Examples : My mom is beutiful
         • PROPER NOUNS
           • They are those that refer to specific individuals. These are usually written with an initial capital letterl
             • People: Mary, Jhon, Doctor Smith. Animals: King Kong, Scooby Doo. Places: Natural Museum, New York, Australia. Organizations: United Nations, Wall Street. Time/Dates: Saturday, May.
               • examples : I study in Barranquilla
           • CONCRETE NOUNS:
             • They are all those nouns that can be perceived through the senses:
               • Dog, salt, sugar, table
                 • examples: coffee has a lot of sugar
             • ABSTRACT NOUNS:
               • They are the nouns that are conceived as qualities, ideas, feelings or concepts:
                 • Happiness, imagination, thought, sweetness.
                   • examples: today I feel full of happiness
               • COUNTABLE NOUNS:
                 • Accounting nouns are those that can occur singularly or plurally and can be modified by numbers or quantifiers:
                   • Dog: a dog, 6 dogs, many dogs. House: Two houses, a lot of houses, several houses.
                     • examples: I have many dogs in the house
                 • UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS:
                   • In English grammar, they are those that are considered a unit or mass and cannot be counted as they are quantities. Generally in English, the accompanying verb is conjugated in the singular. It is conjugated in the plural when they are accompanied by a unit of measurement:
                     • Water: Two glasses of water Salt: One spoon of salt. Chocolate: 3 bars of chocolate.
                       • Examples: this morning when I woke up I drank two glasses of water
                   • COLLECTIVE NOUNS:
                     • They are those that refer to a group of something. They can be singular or plural and specify that group:
                       • A colony of ants. Two honeycombs of bees
                         • Examples: An ant colony lives in the yard of the house
                     • As you can see, a noun can have several classifications in English grammar. It is important to keep this in mind to avoid confusion and make grammatical mistakes. This is a necessary topic when learning grammar in English and language in general.
   • Adjective: Definition and Types. (5/5, 134 votes) An adjective describes or modifies noun / s and pronoun / s in a sentence. Normally indicates quality, size, shape, duration, feelings, content and more about a noun or pronoun.
     • Descriptive/Qualitative
       • fat, young, blue,round ,nice, long, hot, early
         • Example: My cousin Maria is fat
       • Demonstrative
         • this, that, these ,those
           • Example : these books weigh a lot
         • Quantitative
           • some, any, many, much
             • Example : I love my mom very much
           • Interrogative
             • which?, what?, where? , how?
               • Examples: How many dogs are in my house?
             • Possessive
               • my, your , his, our
                 • Example. my watch is blue
               • Numeric
                 • one , four, first, third
                   • example : I was the first in my class
   • An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, determinant, clause, preposition or sentence. Adverbs generally express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering questions such as how, how, when, where and to what extent
     • Time, place and manner adverbs (early, there, slowly)
       • Time adverbs tell us about when something happens.
         • already lately still tomorrow early now soon yesterday finally recently today yet
           • Example: Have you seen Laurie today?
     • Manner adverbs
       • Manner adverbs tell us about the way something happens or is done.
         • accurately beautifully expertly professionally anxiously carefully greedily quickly badly cautiously loudly quietly
     • Degree adverbs (slightly) and focusing adverbs (generally) Degree and focusing adverbs are the most common types of modifiers of adjectives and other adverbs. Degree adverbs express degrees of qualities, properties, states, conditions and relations. Focusing adverbs point to something.
       • absolutely enough perfectly somewhat a (little) bit entirely pretty terribly a lot extremely quite too almost fairly rather totally awfully highly remarkably utterly completely lots slightly very
         • Example: Mary will be staying a bit longer.
     • Focusing adverbs
       • especially just mainly particularly generally largely only simply
         • Example:I just wanted to ask you what you thought.
     • Evaluative adverbs (surprisingly) and viewpoint adverbs (personally)
       • We put some adverbs outside the clause. They modify the whole sentence or utterance. Evaluative and viewpoint adverbs are good examples of this:
         • The electric car, surprisingly, does not really offer any advantages over petrol cars. (evaluative) Personally, I think the show was great. (viewpoint)