Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2011

Parts of the speech.

There are 8 parts of speech

1)Noun-Noun is a word that tells the name of a person , place , thing , an emotion or an idea.
Example- Ram goes to the market every evening.
Here Ram and market are nouns.

2)Pronoun-The word that takes place of a noun is called pronoun.
Example-Ram goes to the market every evening. He buys chocolates.
"He" is pronoun because it replaces the noun "Ram".

3)Verb-It is a word which shows action or state of being.
Ram goes to the market every evening.
"goes" is an action word so it is a verb.

4)Adverb-It is a word that describes verb.
Example- Ram generally goes to market every evening.
Here the word "generally" is an adverb.

5)Adjectives-A words that describes noun.
Ram goes to the super-market every evening.
Here the word "super" is an adjective.

6)Preposition-A word which relates noun or pronoun with the sentence.
Ram goes to the market in the evening.
Here "in"  is a preposition.

7)Conjunctions-It is a word that joins words or sentences.
Ram goes to the market and the park every evening.
Here "and" is a conjunction

8)Interjection-It is a word which express sudden emotions.
Wow!Ram goes to the market every evening.
here the word "Wow!" is an interjection.

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Pluralisation Errors


Following words need special attention before making their plurals

Child-Children
person-people
foot-feet
mouse-mice
tooth-teeth
man-men
woman-women
ox-oxen
goose-geese

Now look at the following words as they have same identical singular and plural form

aircraft-aircraft
fish-fish
headquaters-headquaters
sheep-sheep
species-species
deer-deer


Some nouns exists only in plural form

cattle
scissors
trousers
tweezers
congratulations
pyjamas

Note- The uncountable noun will take only singular form which will be discussed in the next post