BASIC SKILLS COMMUNICATION

PINSP ARLENE M JAVIER

Licensed Criminologist & Teacher

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1. NOUN means name; name of a person, place, thing, animal, event or idea
Types of Noun
Common nouns refer to any one of a class of persons, places, or things

Proper nouns names of specific persons, places or thing

Collective nouns indicate to a group of persons, or things taken as a unit

Abstract nouns things that do not have physical form; ideas or qualities
known
by their effects.

Mass nouns formless and cannot be counted

Count nouns solid and can be counted

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Number of nouns
Singular - one
Plural more than one
Gender of nouns
Masculine - male
Feminine - female
Common applies to both male and female
Neuter inanimate things

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2. PRONOUNS substitutes for nouns
Kinds of pronouns
Personal I, we, you, she, he, us, my, they
Demonstrative this, that, these, those
Reflexive myself, himself, themselves
Intensive herself, itself (same)
Interrogative which what, who, whose
Possessive your/s, mine, its, her, his, hers
Indefinite someone, everybody, any, many

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3. ADJECTIVES describes, limits, qualifies or
modifies a noun or a pronoun
Comparison of Adjectives
Positive
Comparative
Superlative

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ADVERB - describes, limits, qualifies or modifies

adjective, verb or another adverb

Kinds:

Time
Place
Manner
Frequency
Degree

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VERB expresses an action word, or refers to an event or a state of being

Forms:

Base from
S-from
ing form
Past form
Kinds of Verbs
1. regular
2. irregular
Tenses
Present
Past
Future

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PREPOSITION shows a relation between a word and a noun or
pronoun that follows it.

A preposition indicates:

Place and position across, above, below, between, behind, far

behind, beyond

Direction and motion in, toward, out of, about, around, through, by,
down over

Time at, before, after, during, since ,until

Miscellaneous as, like, with, along with, instead of, in spite of,
despite

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Conjunction

connects two words, or group of words

Kinds:

Connectors tie together words that have the same grammatical construction
Examples: and, but, or, for, so, nor, yet

Correlatives are paired conjunctions classified as coordinators.

Eitheror neithernor
Not onlybut also whetheror

Connectors joins the independent clauses and are used as transition words in a sentence.

Examples: therefore, also, however, in fact, indeed, hence, consequently, furthermore, on the
other hand

Subordinators are function words that join dependent clauses to main clauses

Examples: when, where, because, after, unless, so that, whenever, as long as

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Interjection expresses emotion, acts, as a signal
or adds a conversational touch

Examples: Ouch! It hurts.

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