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1. Grammar
2.Vocabulary
3.Composition
4.Oral
Nouns
Nouns are naming words. They the part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea (e.g. car, dog, happiness). There are different kinds of nouns, such as pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns and possessive nouns.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm
Pronouns
Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence. For example, in the sentence “Mary had a little lamb and she brought it to school,” the word she replaced “Mary” and the word it replaced “lamb”.
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/pronoun.asp
Proper nouns
Proper nouns are alike nouns, just more specific. Proper nouns gives you the actual name of the person, place, thing, or idea. Using the example “Mary had a little lamb,” the word Mary is a proper noun whereas lamb is just a noun. The word Mary gave you the actual name of the person instead of just saying The Girl, which is a noun. The names of planets, countries, cities, your family members, your school are all proper nouns.
http://www.k12reader.com/proper-nouns/
Common nouns
Common nouns are almost like the opposite of proper nouns. While proper nouns give you the specifics, common nouns are the general name you give a person, place, thing, or idea. For example, person, place, thing and idea are all common nouns because they generalise things under that category and are not specific to just one.
Nouns are naming words. They the part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea (e.g. car, dog, happiness). There are different kinds of nouns, such as pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns and possessive nouns.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm
Pronouns
Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence. For example, in the sentence “Mary had a little lamb and she brought it to school,” the word she replaced “Mary” and the word it replaced “lamb”.
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/pronoun.asp
Proper nouns
Proper nouns are alike nouns, just more specific. Proper nouns gives you the actual name of the person, place, thing, or idea. Using the example “Mary had a little lamb,” the word Mary is a proper noun whereas lamb is just a noun. The word Mary gave you the actual name of the person instead of just saying The Girl, which is a noun. The names of planets, countries, cities, your family members, your school are all proper nouns.
http://www.k12reader.com/proper-nouns/
Common nouns
Common nouns are almost like the opposite of proper nouns. While proper nouns give you the specifics, common nouns are the general name you give a person, place, thing, or idea. For example, person, place, thing and idea are all common nouns because they generalise things under that category and are not specific to just one.
Possessive Nouns
Possessive nouns are used to show possession over something.
For singular nouns that do not end with s, just adding an apostrophe s (’s) changes it to its possessive form.
Possessive nouns are used to show possession over something.
For singular nouns that do not end with s, just adding an apostrophe s (’s) changes it to its possessive form.
For singular nouns that end with s or s sound, add either an apostrophe (’) or apostrophe s (’s)
For plural nouns that do not end with s, add apostrophe s (’s)
For plural nouns that end with s, add an apostrophe (’)
When you want to show individual ownership over something, you you add an apostrophe s (’s) to all the nouns
I have visited Jack’s and Jill’s home
When you want to show joint ownership over something, you add an apostrophe s (’s) to the second noun
I have visited Jack and Jill’s home
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/punctuation/apstrphe.html
Vowels and Consonants
Vowels and Consonants make up the 26 letters in the English Alphabet.
Vowels: a,e,i,o,u
Consonants: every other letter apart from a,e,i,o,u
The Rule:
“A” should be placed before a consonant-starting word while “an” is placed before a vowel-starting word. For example, “a cat” and “an apple”. However, this rule is based on the pronunciation of the word and not the letter. For instance, it is “an hour” and not “a hour” as hour is pronounced like our and begins with a vowel-sound. Similarly, it is “a union” as union begins with the consonant-sound yu.
Singular and Plural
Words can be further split into singular and plural.
Singular words refer to just ONE, whereas plural nouns refer to MORE THAN ONE. Sounds easy enough doesn’t it? Here are some general rules* to follow when changing nouns from singular to plural.
1. For most plural forms, add “-s”
I have visited Jack’s and Jill’s home
When you want to show joint ownership over something, you add an apostrophe s (’s) to the second noun
I have visited Jack and Jill’s home
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/punctuation/apstrphe.html
Vowels and Consonants
Vowels and Consonants make up the 26 letters in the English Alphabet.
Vowels: a,e,i,o,u
Consonants: every other letter apart from a,e,i,o,u
The Rule:
“A” should be placed before a consonant-starting word while “an” is placed before a vowel-starting word. For example, “a cat” and “an apple”. However, this rule is based on the pronunciation of the word and not the letter. For instance, it is “an hour” and not “a hour” as hour is pronounced like our and begins with a vowel-sound. Similarly, it is “a union” as union begins with the consonant-sound yu.
Singular and Plural
Words can be further split into singular and plural.
Singular words refer to just ONE, whereas plural nouns refer to MORE THAN ONE. Sounds easy enough doesn’t it? Here are some general rules* to follow when changing nouns from singular to plural.
1. For most plural forms, add “-s”
2. For words that end with ch,x,s or with an s sound add “-es”