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    This document provides an overview of the nine parts of speech in English grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and articles. It defines each part of speech and provides examples. For nouns, it describes the five types of nouns - common, proper, collective, abstract, and material nouns. It also defines the three persons of pronouns and the three forms of verbs. Additionally, it covers the three degrees of adjectives - positive, comparative, and superlative.

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    Parts of Speech

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    This document provides an overview of the nine parts of speech in English grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and articles. It defines each part of speech and provides examples. For nouns, it describes the five types of nouns - common, proper, collective, abstract, and material nouns. It also defines the three persons of pronouns and the three forms of verbs. Additionally, it covers the three degrees of adjectives - positive, comparative, and superlative.

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    This document provides an overview of the nine parts of speech in English grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and articles. It defines each part of speech and provides examples. For nouns, it describes the five types of nouns - common, proper, collective, abstract, and material nouns. It also defines the three persons of pronouns and the three forms of verbs. Additionally, it covers the three degrees of adjectives - positive, comparative, and superlative.

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    Parts of Speech

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    This document provides an overview of the nine parts of speech in English grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and articles. It defines each part of speech and provides examples. For nouns, it describes the five types of nouns - common, proper, collective, abstract, and material nouns. It also defines the three persons of pronouns and the three forms of verbs. Additionally, it covers the three degrees of adjectives - positive, comparative, and superlative.

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    The key takeaways are the 9 parts of speech in English grammar - noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, preposition, adverb, conjunction, interjection and article.

    The different types of nouns mentioned are common noun, proper noun, collective noun, abstract noun and material noun.

    The three forms of verbs are present, past and past participle.

    English Grammar Notes

    PARTS OF SPEECH
    Different types of words which are used while speaking and writing a sentence.
    In English language there are 9 parts of speech.
    1)Noun
    2)Pronoun
    3) Verb
    4) Adjective
    5)Preposition
    6) Adverb
    7) Conjunction
    8) Interjection
    *To some grammarians9) Articles is also include in parts of speech.
    1) NOUN (naming words)
    The name of person place or thing
    Examples:
    Ali, Sana, Lahore, School, Chair, Pen , sun ,boy, gold etc
    Kinds of Noun
    There are 5 types of noun.
    a) Common Noun
    The name of everything of same class, place or person
    Examples:
    Boy, man, mosque etc
    b) Proper Noun
    The name of any particular thing, place or person
    Examples:
    Ali, Lahore, Chanab,etc
    c) Collective Noun
    A word used to name the group of persons, places or things
    Examples:
    Class, army, crowd, etc
    d) Abstract Noun
    A word used to name a quality, action or state
    /*these nouns cannot be seen or touched*/
    Examples:
    Honesty, kindness, love, poverty, childhood, etc
    e) Material Noun
    Name of the material from which many things can be build
    Examples:
    Iron, wood, cotton,milk, etc
    2) PRONOUN (replace noun)

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    A word used in place of noun
    Examples:
    I, We, they, she, he, it, etc
    Persons of Pronoun:
    There are three persons of Pronoun.

    1st person->denote the persons speaking->e.g I,We, my, our, us, me etc
    2nd person->denote the persons we are speaking to->e.g you, your, yours
    3rd person->person whom we are talking->e.g he, she, it, his, their,heretc

    3) VERB (action words)


    A word which shows action, state or activity
    Examples:
    Play, went, eat, run, sing, sit, come, sleep, spend, saved etc
    /* is, am, are was,were, has, have, had, will, shall etc also called helping verb*/
    FORMS OF VERBS
    There are three forms of verbs
    1) Present
    2) past
    3)past participle
    /* use your notes or English grammar book for learn these forms */
    4) ADJECTIVE (describing words)
    A word used to describe the quality, number or quantity of noun
    Examples:
    Dark night, bright morning, ten students, fat man, dirty room etc
    DEGREES OF ADJECTIVES

    Positive Degree-> simplest form ->e.g sweet, intelligent etc


    Comparative Degree-> compare two things->e.gtaller than you, more beautifuletc
    Superlative Degree-> highest degree of quality,(used when more than two things
    are compared) ->e.gstrongest, cleverest girl etc

    5) ADVERB(modifying words)
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    A word which modifies the meaning of a verb, adjective or another adverb.
    It tells us how, when, where and how often action takes place.
    Examples:
    1. She walks slowly.
    2. She is very beautiful. 3. He is too careless.
    6) PREPOSITION(showing position)
    A word which shows position of something regards to another.
    It tells us where something is.
    Examples:
    At, on, over, into, in, to etc
    7) CONJUNCTION (joining words)
    The word used to join two words or sentences to each other.
    Examples:
    1) We work and play together.
    2) He is poor but honest.
    8) INTERJECTION (express feelings)
    The words that express some sudden emotion or feelings of happiness, sorrow or wonder

    Examples:
    Hurrah!, Alas!, Oh!, Wow!, etc
    9) ARTICLE
    It is a kind of adjective which is always used with noun or adjective and gives some
    information about a noun.
    Types of article:
    There are two types of articles:
    1) Definite article: indicates that its noun is a particular one which is identifiable to the
    listener.
    The is definite article.
    2) Indefinite article: indicates that its noun is not a particular one->a and an are
    indefinite articles.
    A: if a word start with sound of consonant we us a before it.-> a table, a book, a
    pen etc
    An: if a word start with sound of vowels we use an before it.-> an ant, an
    honest, an F.A etc

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