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Common Noun: City, Birth, Day, Happiness

This document provides an overview of nouns, verbs, sentences, and other parts of speech. It defines common and proper nouns, and gives examples of each. For verbs, it explains singular verb forms, irregular verbs, and gives examples. It also briefly defines command sentences, request sentences, exclamatory sentences, prepositions, adjectives including cardinal and ordinal forms, and how new words can be formed from rootwords with suffixes or prefixes.

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Common Noun: City, Birth, Day, Happiness

This document provides an overview of nouns, verbs, sentences, and other parts of speech. It defines common and proper nouns, and gives examples of each. For verbs, it explains singular verb forms, irregular verbs, and gives examples. It also briefly defines command sentences, request sentences, exclamatory sentences, prepositions, adjectives including cardinal and ordinal forms, and how new words can be formed from rootwords with suffixes or prefixes.

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NOUNS: UNIT 1

NOUNS – names of people, places or things we write in information sheets are called nouns.

PEOPLE PLACES THINGS


Mother Mall Pencil
Father Park Plants
Teacher school Birds

Common noun
A common noun is a noun that refers to people or things in general, e.g. boy, country, bridge,
city, birth, day, happiness.
Example: car, fan, girl, dog, park, boy
Proper noun
A proper noun is a name that identifies a particular person, place, or thing, e.g. Steven, Africa,
London, Monday. In written English, proper nouns begin with capital letters.
Example: Faribah, Joshua, Luneta Park, Singapore

Verbs are action words

For singular subjects, we add -s or -es to the verbs. We add -es to verbs that end in s,x,z,o,sh, and
ch. The pronouns he, she, and it, are also paired with -s or -es form of the verb.

verb -s/-+es form Base form


Listen Listens Listen
Write Writes Write
Practice Practices Practice
Wash Washes Wash
march Marches March

1. He reads quietly at the corner.


2. Remy and Dulce attend ballet rehearsal every Tuesday.
3. He writes poems very well.
4. They always pick up the litter without being told.
5. I always return books to the library on time.
Irregular Verbs—changing the spelling or retain their base form.

Is Was
See Saw
Give Gave
Break Broke
Sing Sang
Come Came
Think thought

KINDS OF SENTENCES

 Command Sentence-gives a command.


 Request Sentence-requesting someone to do something.
 Exclamatory sentences express a strong feeling.

PREPOSITIONS
The preposition in, on, and under tell us the position of an object in a particular space.
Example:
I placed the box under the table.
We use in if a person or thing is on top of something.
We use on if a person or thing is on top of something.
We use under if a person or thing is below something.
ADJECTIVES
CARDINAL objectives—describe the number of persons, places, or things talked about in sentence.
They answer the question, “How many?”
ORDINAL adjectives tell us the position in sequence. The words first and second are example of it.

CARDINAL ORDINAL
One First
Two Second
Three Third
Four Fourth

ROOTWORDS AND SUFFIXES

ROOTWORD SUFFIX NEW WORD


Sound -ly Soundly
Color -ful Colorful
Fear -less Fearless

ROOTWORD AND PREFIXES

PREFIX ROOTWORD NEW WORD


-un Friend unfriend
-im Polite impolite
-ir responsible Irresponsible

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