
Rowling, Nikola Tesla, Pablo Picasso, Billie Eilish.

Where possible, using proper nouns in place of common nouns helps bring precision to a student’s writing. This makes them easy to identify in a text. Unlike common nouns, which are always lowercase, proper nouns are capitalized. Proper nouns are the specific names for people, places, and things. Things: language, trophy, magazine, movie, book. Places: country, city, town, house, garden. People: teacher, author, engineer, artist, singer. They are groups or classes on their own, rather than specific types of people, places, or things such as we find in proper nouns.Ĭommon nouns can be further classified as abstract or concrete – more on this shortly! Common NounsĬommon nouns are the general names of people, places, and things. But, what isn’t as widely understood by many of our students is that nouns can be further classified into more specific categories.Īll nouns can be classified as either common or proper. Nouns are naming words, and, as most school kids can recite, they are the names of people, places, and things. Often the first word a child speaks will be a noun, for example, Mum, Dad, cow, dog, etc.

AdverbĪdverbs modify or describe adjectives, verbs, or other adverbs. His daughters also love their caring father.

AdjectiveĪdjective modifies or describes noun in a sentence.Įxample: Alex loves his beautiful daughters. It is considered as the heart of a sentence.Įxample: Alex is going home. Verb shows an action or an ongoing condition. PronounĪ pronoun is used to refer to a noun/noun phrase, or nouns/noun phrases instead of the repeated use of the same noun(s)/noun phrase(s).Įxample: Michael is a good boy. Noun refers to people, places, things, ideas, concepts, etc.Įxample: Michael is a good boy. In English, there are eight parts of speech: Can you imagine all the words of a language can be sorted into these categories? They play different roles in the structure of a language. Parts of speech encompass everything a language has in itself.

Parts of speech are the classification of words categorized by their roles and functions within the structure of the language.
