Noun – Verb – Adjective
Quite often than not, students get confused among these three basic elements of grammar. Let me keep it simple and straight. Noun is the name of a person, a place or a thing. The world thing means something you can see, touch, taste, or think of. Let me elaborate with noun examples:
Noun as name of a person :- Ram, Harry, Laxmi etc.
Noun as name of place :- Bilaspur, India, America etc.
Noun as a thing :- Table, sky, air, tea, milk, honesty, youth etc.
Basically nouns can be classified into 5 categories :-
a) The Proper Noun
b) The Material Noun
c) The Common Noun
d) The collective Noun
e) The Abstract Noun
Nouns can further be classified into two categories:-
a) Countable Nouns
b) Uncountable Nouns
Verb is the work we do. Do you know that no sentence is possible without a verb? Read, write, play, climb etc. these are all verbs. Your level in English is determined by the number of verbs you know. A bare minimum of 300 verbs should be known to a student of under graduate level.
A verb has 3 forms viz. Present, Past & Past Participle. This is also called conjugation of verbs. There are three categories of verb viz. Transitive Verb, Intransitive Verb & Auxiliary or Helping Verb.
Adjective is something that will qualify a noun or a pronoun. Good, bad, enough, tall, either etc are all adjectives.
Adjectives are basically of the following 6 types :-
a) Adjectives of quality
b) Adjectives of quantity
c) Adjectives of numeral types
d) Distributive Adjectives
e) Demonstrative adjectives
f) Interrogative adjectives
Degrees of Comparison:-
Positive Degree :- Quality of a person or a thing.
Comparative Degree :- Better or worse of the two.
Superlative Degree :- The best or the worst of a group comprising more than two.
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