IDENTIFYING NOUNS

commonly defined as words that refer to a

person, place, thing, or idea.
 How to Identify a noun
After articles a, an, the

On, of in, after, before, during, amomg,

After Preposition etc.

Many, much, some, a lot of , several, few,

After quantity of a few, a little, little, one, two, three. Etc.
expression

After possessive My, your, our, her, his, their, its, David’s
adjectives and book
possessive nouns
1. She read the play over again.
2. The actions became monotonous.
3. He felt that his marriage. His relationship
with her was strong.
4. The time had finally come to confess the
truth.
5. He’s the boy who delivers the paper.
6. The glitterati always like to follow the
fashion of the day.
7. They will repair his stove.
8. The arrangement was good for all of them.
9. The audience stared at the screen, fascinated by the
action they were seeing.
10. The definition was in his dictionary.
IDENTIFYING VERBS
1. After a modal auxilary and to :
• go: should go to go
• tell: should tell to tell
• disagree: should disagree to disagree
• spell: should spell to spell
2. V1, V2, V3 (usually after subjects)- ex on p.
26 & 27
IDENTIFYING ADJECTIVES
 IDENTIFYING ADJECTIVES
1. a word between the and a noun (for example,
the, a, an or and ---- boy).
• the brilliant boy
• the embarrassed boy
• the blonde boy
• the hungry boy
• the delightful boy
• A nice flower.
• An automatic machine
A Grammar book
A governor house
The poor house
An ancient book
A new book
Store
some Shoe stores
A Jewelry store
Many Book stores
A Bird store
A lot of Toy stores
 From verbs
V-ing
This class is boring
This boring class almost ends
V3
The provided lines are for answers.
All students are bored.
propose
IDENTIFYNG ADVERBS
1. generally indicate information about LOCATION,
TIME, DEGREE, AND MANNER. They provide extra
information about the action in a sentence, about
adjectives and about other adverbs.
• I live here. (information about location)
• My brother is arriving today. (information about
time)
• She dances gracefully. (information about manner)
• That child is very sweet. (degree information about
an adjective, in this case, about sweet)
• She works extremely efficiently. (degree
information about another adverb, in this case,
about efficiently)
2. Many, though not all, adverbs end in -ly (rapidly,
innocently, sweetly, etc.).
However,
• Some adjectives also end in -ly, for example
lovely, friendly. It’s easy to distinguish them.
• Just remember that the adjectives can go in the
slot the boy: the lovely boy, the friendly boy.
• While adverbs can go before the adjective, for
example the extremely friendly boy
• (extremely is an adverb), adverbs cannot occupy
the slot directly before the noun.
• That is a pretty easy book. (Pretty is similar to the
word very here, and is an adverb of degree.)
• That is a pretty child. (Pretty is an adjective.)
• You drive too fast. (Fast tells us more about the verb
drive, so it is an adverb.)
• This actor’s delivery was too fast. (Fast tells us more
about the noun delivery, so it is an adjective.)
 Review
For each sentence below, write ADV above each
adverb, ADJ above each adjective, N above each
noun, and V above each verb.
1. My roommate usually sleeps very late.
2. Yesterday, the girl accompanied her older sister to
the mall.
3. He walked slowly toward the foggy station.
4. The experienced senator quickly evaded their
probing questions.
5. Later, we took a leisure walk down by the beach.
6. The once popular guitarist appeared on TV
regularly.
7. Successful brokers will surely receive sizeable
commissions.
8. We recently had a wonderful time in Spain.
9. I will take a quick dip in the invitingly blue waters
of the ocean.
10. Obviously, you are not the same person now
that you were when I first met you.
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