English Basics

What is Adjective? An adjective is a word which modifies (tells us more about) a noun or a pronoun. Examples: hot tea, old man, beautiful girl, white shirt, intelligent student, interesting story, handsome boy, huge room. In these examples the words “hot, old, white, white, intelligent, interesting, handsome, & huge” are adjectives because they modify (gives more information about) the attached nouns. Adjectives modify the nouns by telling more about various aspects […]

What is Verb? A verb is a word that expresses a state or an action of something. e.g. Go, Write, come, run, play, eat, weep, read, catch, clean, drink, walk,  speak, cut, hold. Example: She is driving a car. In the above sentence, the word ‘drive’ is a verb because it tells about an action being done by […]

Common Noun & Proper Noun   There are two major types of nouns: Common Noun Proper Noun 1⇒ Common Noun A common noun is a name of non-specific or a common thing, place or a person. Examples: “book, pen, room, garden man, girl, road, camera, month, day, chair, school, boy, car”  are common nouns because each […]

What is a Noun? Noun is an important part of speech which is used a lot in written as well as spoken English. A noun is a word that names a place, a person, a thing, an animal or an idea. Examples: “table, chair, New York, Lahore, book, cup, boy, computer, Newton, hospital, garden, room, man, […]