We will consider the parts of speech in terms of the noun phrase, verbs, adverbs and prepositions, and discourse. The noun phrase A noun phrase may consist of just a noun or a (‘John’) pronoun (‘he’, ‘they’). The noun may be preceded by a man). There may be determiner (‘this woman, ‘a one or more adjectives before the noun young handsome old (‘a woman’, ‘a man’), and the noun may be post- modified in some way (e.g. woman with a ‘a computer’ a ‘the man wearing hat’). Nouns The way nouns behave depends upon a number of grammatical and morphological variables. Countable and uncountable A distinction needs to be made between countable nouns and uncountable nouns. As their name implies, with countable nouns you can what the words ‘count’ refer to (e.g. and therefore you can make ‘apple’, ‘table’, ‘horse’, ‘cottage’, ‘novel’) them etc), but you count what uncountable words plural (‘apples’, ‘tables’, can’t refer to (e.g. and and you make them plural - we ‘furniture’ ‘comfort’) can’t can’t say ‘*two furnitures’, ‘*eight comforts’). part of speech description examples (words) examples (sentences, etc) noun (noun a word (or group of Rachel Rachel arrives tomorrow. phrase) words) that is the New York I love New York. name of a person, book I recommend this book. a place, a thing or sense I get any sense out of can’t activity or a quality her. walking stick or idea; nouns can I need a walking stick. be used as the don’t town hall
We will consider the parts of speech in terms of the noun phrase, verbs, adverbs and prepositions, and discourse. The noun phrase A noun phrase may consist of just a noun (‘John’) or a pronoun (‘he’, ‘they’). The noun may be preceded by a determiner (‘this woman, ‘a man). There may be one or more adjectives before the noun (‘a young woman’, ‘a handsome old man’), and the noun may be post- modified in some way (e.g. ‘a woman with a computer’ ‘the man wearing a hat’). Nouns The way nouns behave depends upon a number of grammatical and morphological variables. Countable and uncountable A distinction needs to be made between countable nouns and uncountable nouns. As their name implies, with countable nouns you can ‘count’ what the words refer to (e.g. ‘apple’, ‘table’, ‘horse’, ‘cottage’, ‘novel’) and therefore you can make them plural (‘apples’, ‘tables’, etc), but you can’t count what uncountable words refer to (e.g. ‘furniture’ and ‘comfort’) and you can’t make them plural - we can’t say ‘*two furnitures’, ‘*eight comforts’). part of speech description examples (words) examples (sentences, etc) noun (noun phrase) a word (or group of words) that is the name of a person, a place, a thing or activity or a quality or idea; nouns can be used as the Rachel New York book sense walking stick town hall Rachel arrives tomorrow. I love New York. I recommend this book. I can’t get any sense out of her. I don’t need a walking stick.
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