In English, there are nine basic types of words. These types are called parts of speech. The parts of speech are nouns, articles, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Nouns (for example, boy or tree) stand for people, places, or things. They are identifying words or names and fall into two categories: common and proper. A common noun is any general word or name (president, country, clock). A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing (Abraham Lincoln, Germany, Big Ben). Proper nouns are capitalized when they are written.Nouns can be singular or plural (house, houses). Nouns can also have ownership of other nouns. This is called possession. An apostrophe followed by an s is used to show possession (a girl’s book, the farmer’scow). Articles (a, an, the) tell whether a noun is general (a tree) or specific (the tree). Pronouns (he, she, it) replace nouns (she played).
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