Nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.

1. Look at this

Steven bought an expensive new car on Friday

Steven--->Noun
bought --------> verb
expensive -----------> adjective
new----> adjective
car-------> noun
friday------->noun

He drove it carefully to Manchester

He, it ----> pronouns
carefully -----> adverbs
to, on -------> preposition
Manchester -----> noun

2. Nouns describe things or people or animals

Butter car woman dog problem


Some nouns (proper nouns) are the names of people, places and things. We begin proper nouns with capital letters ( A, B...):


Jane, Paris, Oxford Street, June, a Rolls- Royce, the Tower London.


3. Verbs describe actions or situations:


Work, play, live, meet, stay, see



They work hard (work= verb)


I saw Peter (Saw= verb)



4. We use auxiliary verbs (be, have, do, will, can, may, must, etc.)
before another verb:

They are working hard. (are= auxiliary)

I have seen Peter. (have = auxiliary)

I must go now. (must= auxiliary)



5. We put adjectives (e.g wonderful) before nouns:

We had a wonderful day


We can also use adjectives after the verbs be, look, seem, feel:

He's hungry She looks tired.


Sometimes we put very before adjectives:

It's very hot today.

he bought a very expensive car


6. We normally use adverbs to describe verbs:

She walked quickly. He sings well


7. We use pronouns (I, you, he, she,etc.) to replace nouns:


David has a new job.
He is enojoying it


8. We use prepositions (in, on, at, etc.) when we are talking about places and times:


Place: She's at home
It's in the box


Time: I'll see you on monday
They went on holiday in June