Parts of Speech - English Grammar

PARTS OF SPEECH 

The following are eight parts of speech. 

1. Noun 2. Pronoun 3. Verb 4. Adjective 5. Adverb 6. Preposition 7. Conjuction 8. Interjection

1. NOUN 

Definition
A noun is the name a person, place, thing or idea e.g. Ali, Peshawar, Book, Sorrow etc.

How Can We Know a Noun

We can recognize a noun by the following suffixes which always express that a word is a noun which has  -acy, -age, -cy, -dom, -ee, -ence, -ency, -or, -ery, -ess, -er, -ette, -hood, -ship, -ics at the end.

Examples of Nouns: Independence, indication, artist, kingdom, actress, courtship, orphanage, literacy, manhood, singer, physics, deed, appearance, mannerism, etc. Singular Nouns The name of only one thing, place or person e,g man, lamp, chair etc. Plural Nouns. The nouns which name more than one thing, place or person are plural nouns, for example, lamps, men, tables etc.

How Many Kinds of Nouns Are There?

i. Common Noun
It is the name of a thing, person or place which is common or ordinary; for example , pen , chair, city etc.

ii. Proper Noun
It is the name of a thing, place or person which is specific or particular. The first letter of proper nouns is always capitalized. Examples are : Lahore, The Atlantic Ocean, Muhammad Ali Jinnah etc.

iii. Concrete Noun
Concrete nouns are those nouns  which are perceptible to our senses. Examples are: Chair, Computer, Lake etc. To make it easy to recognize, these nouns occupy space or can be recognized by our senses as; mountains, salt etc.

iv. Abstract Nouns:
Those nouns which are not perceptible to our senses, but it is a name of an idea, quality or a characteristic. For example: Happiness, Grief, Beauty, fury etc.

v. Countable Nouns
Those nouns which can be counted are said to be countable nouns. Example, Book, Pen, Room, Horse, Bus etc.

vi. Uncountable Nouns
Those nouns which we cannot count and are always descried in their individual capacity. ( these are also called Material Nouns). For example, sugar, water, iron, silver, copper, tea, milk etc.

vii. Compound Nouns
Those nouns which are made of more than one word are called compound nouns. For examples A shopkeeper, a mother-in-Law etc