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Part of Speech Kp-Jan 2010
Part of Speech Kp-Jan 2010
NOUN
A noun is the name of a thing,
person, animal, place or idea.
(ii) Places
- Penang, Kota Bharu, Tokyo
(iii) Animals
- Si Putih, Lassie, Blacky
COMMON/ CONCRETE
NOUNS
Isthe general term used to refer to
persons, animals and things or objects.
Flock
of pigeons, a family, an army, an
assembly, a committee, gaggle.
ABSTRACT NOUNS
Are names of special qualities, actions,
emotions or conditions of a person or
persons.
You cannot detect this group of nouns
with your 5 senses.
Eg: wisdom, friendship, honesty,
goodness, happiness, anger.
COMPOUND NOUNS
Consist of 2 or more words put
together to form a name.
They can be written separately but
they mean 1 thing.
Eg: post office, living room, brother-
in-law, narrow-minded.
NOUN
Nouns can also divided to:
- Countable and Uncountable
- Gender
- Number (singular & plural)
- Case (subject, object,
possessive)
COUNTABLE NOUNS
Are the names of objects, people, etc.
that we can count
b. Feminine gender
c. Common gender
d. Neuter gender
GENDER (CONT…I)
a. Masculine gender
a. Singular Number
b. Plural Number
NUMBER (CONT…I)
a. Singular Number
Change the inside vowel of the singular Men, Women, Feet, Teeth
** *-en Ox-> Oxen, Child-> Children
OTHER PLURAL FORMS
o Fish or fishes?
a. Fish – usual plural
b. Fishes – used to talk about different kinds of fish
a. Names of subjects
Eg: Mathematics, Physics, Electronics
- (S) kicked
Eg: The horse (V) the boy
(O)
Accusative comes after the verb Ali broke the window. (object)
11 window
- I can see him walking outside through the window.
12 home
- They go home together after the game.
13 door
- “Please close the door,” said teacher to Sabrina.
14 table
- The teacher asks students to arrange the table neatly in the hall.
15 bowls
- They ate three bowls of soup this morning.
SENTENCES TAKEN FROM STORY OF
GOLDILOCKS
16 spoon
- “Can you please get me a spoon from the kitchen?”
17 chairs
- They discovered that their chairs had been broken.
18 fire
- “For fire safety reasons, there is a no smoking policy in school”, said the
headmaster.
19 bedroom
- Mother asked us to stay quietly in our bedroom.
20 door
- Hakim keeps his dirty shoes behind the door because he afraid that his
mother will scold him.