Parts of Speech (abbreviated to PoS and sometimes called Word Classes) are the different categories of English words which all work in the same grammatical way: nouns, verbs, prepositions and so on.
This section has articles on all the different parts of speech.
A participle is a form of English verb. In English there are 2 participles: the present participle made by adding –ing to the verb, e.g. walk > walking the past participle made by adding –ed to the verb, e.g. walk > walked These two participles can be used as adjectives. […]
Numbers are classified in grammar into two main groups: Cardinal and Ordinal. Numbers serve as adjectives in that they modify the noun which follows, e.g. There are young people here. There are many people here. There are six people here. Note that in a sentence such as: There are thirty […]
A Noun is one of the major parts of speech. A good, general, definition of a noun is that it is something which is used to name an object or thing. car, door, elephant… There are literally thousands upon thousands of nouns in English and we regularly add new nouns […]
When we use nouns, we often use them with one or more other words to make a noun phrase. A noun phrase therefore is a group of words which contains a noun and one or more words that describe it further. Very often we put a determiner in front of […]
Modifiers are pretty straightforward when you come to think of it. Essentially a modifier does just that: it modifies or changes or qualifies another word or phrase or clause. Suppose you have a noun: motorcycle You can then modify it: black motorcycle Harley Davidson motorcycle fast motorcycle So when we […]