English Learning Notes

Definition of Verb : A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action ("bring", "read"), occurrence ("to decompose" (itself), "to glitter"), or a state of being ("exist", "live", "soak", "stand"). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. It may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments (what we usually call subject, object, etc.).

Verb is words that show an action :

Ronaldinho kicks the ball
I walk to school
My mom cooks for lunch

Verb explains when action is made :

(a) Present Tense
The present tense is the tense (form of a verb) that is often used to express :
* Action at the present time
* A state of being
* A habitual action
* An occurrence in the near future
* An action that occurred in the past and continues up to the present
Example : eat, sleep, study

(b) Continuous Tense
The continuous and progressive aspects are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time. The continuous aspect expresses the state of the subject that is continuing the action while the progressive aspect expresses the dynamic quality of actions that are in progress.
Example : eating, sleeping, studying

(c) Past Tense
The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past.
Example : ate, slept, studied

(d) Future Tense
A future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected to in the future.
Example : I shall eat, He will sleep, They will study

(e) Perfect Tense
The perfect tenses are verb tenses showing actions completed at or before a specific time.
Example : has eaten, has slept, has studied

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Definition of Noun : A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. Nouns are parts of speech and can be classified in different ways such as proper nouns (e.g. "Janet") versus common nouns (e.g. "girl"), or collective nouns (e.g. "bunch", "herd"). Nouns can be substituted by pronouns (e.g. "she" and "which"). The word noun derives from Latin nomen meaning "name" (as a noun can be considered an object, person, or concept's name).

Two important things to remember when using noun :
(a) Is it singular or plural
(b) Is it countable or uncountable

If that noun is delegating only one thing, do not put 's' at the end of that noun.

Example : Dog

Notes : There must be 'a' before noun that delegating only one thing.
a dog (only one dog)

If there is more than one dog, put 's' at the end of that noun.
dogs (more than one dog)

There are some noun that need to be added '-es' or '-ies' at the end of word when they delegating more than one thing.

Example :

glass – glasses
hero – heroes
lorry – lorries
lady – ladies
baby – babies

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