Sunday, 19 April 2009

Part of speech (simple definitions)






My own definitions of the following words:

i) noun: It refers to a person, place or thing.

ii) verb: It's an action or state.

iii) adjective: It qualifies nouns.

iv) adverb: It modifies verbs, nouns and adverbs.

v) conjunction It joins words, phrases or sentences.

vi) preposition: It links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words.

vii) subject of a sentence: It's the person or thing which performs the action of a verb.

viii) object of a sentence: It's a person or thing that is affected by the action of a verb.



Victor Hugo Loncomilla