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There are nine parts of speech within the English language:
1. Nouns
2. Verbs
3. Adjectives
4. Adverbs
5. Pronouns
6. Prepositions
7. Conjunctions
8. Articles, determiners, and quantifiers
9. Interjections
This chapter examines the correct use of these parts of speech.
Nouns
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. A proper noun, which names a specific person, place, or thing (Kevin, Atlanta, God, English, Jennifer), is usually capitalized. A proper noun used as someoneās name is called a noun of address. The remaining nouns for everything else are called common nouns and are not usually capitalized.
A group of related words can act like a noun within a sentence. This is called a noun clause, and it contains a subject and a verb. Here is an example of a noun clause:
What he did for the country was unbelievable.
In this example, āWhat he did for the countryā is the noun clause.
A noun phrase consists of a noun with several modifiers that act as a single noun. The following are examples of noun phrases:
Professional football team
Money market account
Grossly exaggerated totals
Abnormally long fingers
Real estate investment trust
There are also groups of words that can form compound nouns. Some examples include:
Son-in-law
Stick-in-the-mud
Other Noun Categories
There are additional categories of nouns:
Count Nounsāused for anything that can be counted, such as five dollars, a dozen, and seven continents.
Mass Nounsāused for naming things that canāt be counted, like water, air, energy, and data.
Collective Nounsāused for naming groups of individuals or things, such as team, class, or jury.
Abstract Nounsāused for naming intangible things, such as love, peace, justice, hope, hatred, and friendship.
Some words can be a count noun or a non-count noun, depending on how they are used. Whether a noun is a count or non-count noun determines whether it can be used with articles and determiners. For example:
Non-count: The team got into trouble.
Count: The team had many troubles.
Noun Case
Nouns can be in the subjective, possessive, and objective case. The case tells you the role of a noun in a sentence. Here are some examples:
The football player (subject) runs very fast.
He selected a car (object).
The football playerās (possessive) jersey was torn.
Nouns in the subjective and objective case are identical. Nouns in the possessive usually require an apostrophe followed by the lett...
