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An adjective is~ a word that describes a noun like *The brown cat* the word brown is the adj. and the cat is the noun
A noun is~ Person, Place and Thing. Some examples are The word car, cat, school, computer, t.v., shirt, school, clock, frog,. Person is like a doctor, teacher or a president.
Place is like school, hospital, store
Thing is like shirt, keyboard, chair, and so on.
A verb is~ A acton word. Some examples are swimming, run, drink. A verb in a sentence would be *She ran to the school* or He kept drinking and running at the same time!* Some verbs end with *ing* like swimming.
A adverb is~ A adverb describes a verb. Like when did the action happen. Like *He ate that cake yesterday*. Yesterday is the adverb because it tells when he ate it.
Hope this helped and don't feel bad if you don't understand this its okay!! Hope this helped =]
2007-02-17 06:40:56
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answered by Anonymous
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What are Verbs?
The verb is king in English. The shortest sentence contains a verb. You can make a one-word sentence with a verb, for example: "Stop!" You cannot make a one-word sentence with any other type of word.
Verbs are sometimes described as "action words". This is partly true. Many verbs give the idea of action, of "doing" something. For example, words like run, fight, do and work all convey action.
But some verbs do not give the idea of action; they give the idea of existence, of state, of "being". For example, verbs like be, exist, seem and belong all convey state.
A verb always has a subject. (In the sentence "John speaks English", John is the subject and speaks is the verb.) In simple terms, therefore, we can say that verbs are words that tell us what a subject does or is; they describe:
action (Ram plays football.)
state (Anthony seems kind.)
There is something very special about verbs in English. Most other words (adjectives, adverbs, prepositions etc) do not change in form (although nouns can have singular and plural forms). But almost all verbs change in form. For example, the verb to work has five forms:
to work, work, works, worked, working
Of course, this is still very few forms compared to some languages which may have thirty or more forms for a single verb.
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Adjectives
An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. (By "noun" we include pronouns and noun phrases.) An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (a big dog). Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food) or after certain verbs (It is hard). We can often use two or more adjectives together (a beautiful young French lady).
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What are Nouns?
The simple definition is: a person, place or thing. Here are some examples:
person: man, woman, teacher, John, Mary
place: home, office, town, countryside, America
thing: table, car, banana, money, music, love, dog, monkey
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Adverbs
An adverb is a word that tells us more about a verb. An adverb "qualifies" or "modifies" a verb (The man ran quickly). But adverbs can also modify adjectives (Tara is really beautiful), or even other adverbs (It works very well).
Many different kinds of word are called adverbs. We can usually recognise an adverb by its:
Function (Job)
Form
Position
1. Function
The principal job of an adverb is to modify (give more information about) verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. In the following examples, the adverb is in bold and the word that it modifies is in italics.
Modify a verb:
- John speaks loudly. (How does John speak?)
- Mary lives locally. (Where does Mary live?)
- She never smokes. (When does she smoke?)
Modify an adjective:
- He is really handsome.
Modify another adverb:
- She drives incredibly slowly.
But adverbs have other functions, too. They can:
Modify a whole sentence:
- Obviously, I can't know everything.
Modify a prepositional phrase:
- It's immediately inside the door.
2. Form
Many adverbs end in -ly. We form such adverbs by adding -ly to the adjective. Here are some examples:
quickly, softly, strongly, honestly, interestingly
But not all words that end in -ly are adverbs. "Friendly", for example, is an adjective.
Some adverbs have no particular form, for example:
well, fast, very, never, always, often, still
3. Position
Adverbs have three main positions in the sentence:
Front (before the subject):
- Now we will study adverbs.
Middle (between the subject and the main verb):
- We often study adverbs.
End (after the verb or object):
- We study adverbs carefully.
Adverbs of Frequency
always, sometimes, never...
2007-02-17 06:47:57
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answered by Mummy is not at home 4
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Here are some basic definitions:
A noun is a person, place or thing: Jim, Florida, chair.
An adjective describes a noun: big Jim, sunny Florida, wooden chair
A verb is an action: run, sing, type
An Adverb describes a verb: run fast, sing beautifully, type poorly
In general, if it has an "ly" at the end, it's probably an adverb.
I (noun) hope (verb) these (adjective) short (adjective) definitions (noun) help (verb) immensely (adverb)!
2007-02-17 06:41:08
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answered by Chris C 5
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An adjective is a word that describes something, a noun is the name of a place, person, or thing, a verb is an action word, and an adverb is a word ending in ly.
2007-02-17 19:59:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Robyn English is never anyone's strong point but briefly adjective describes something/noun name of person or place/verb is an action /and adverb explains the verb/ thats all you need to know to utilise it
2007-02-17 06:55:29
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answered by srracvuee 7
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An Adjective is a describing word, such as, It was a "BIG" fish.
An Noun is a name of a place or object, such as, He took the "PAINTING" to "ESSEX".
A Verb is a doing word, such as, A woodpecker "PECKS" some wood.
An Adverb adds more meaning to a verb, such as, Fred's train "ARRIVED" "EARLY"
Hope this has helped
All the best
Dekker
2007-02-17 06:46:47
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answered by Dekker 2
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adjective is a describing word such as beautiful, fast
noun is a person place thing or idea such as table, park, boy etc
verb is an action word such as run walk swim
adverb modifies nouns verbs or adjectives such as extremely good, extremely modifies good
2007-02-17 06:44:37
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answered by Anonymous
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Look it up! type in adverb,verb, etc. Cmon if you can ask this question you can answer it.
2007-02-17 06:33:51
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answered by WTH (idea 2
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Try looking up the parts of speech on the internet.
2007-02-17 06:33:55
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answered by ♥Stacy 6
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There's a homework help section in Yahoo! Answers. The people there will help you loads, and they know a lot.
2007-02-17 06:36:18
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answered by blimey 2
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