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.
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.
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)