8 Parts of Speech with Noun

8 Parts of speech

There are eight parts of speech.

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Verb
4. Adjective
5. Adverb
6. Preposition
7. Conjunction
8. Interjection

1. Noun:

   Noun is a word which names a person, a place or a thing. Such as:

Chair, table, white board, school, tree, Garden, motorcycle stone, etc.

Types of noun:

There are two main types of noun:

1. Common noun
2. Proper noun

Common noun:

  It is the name of a common or a non -specific thing,place or person.

common noun refers to a non specific or non particular thing, place a person. For example, boy, girl, road, stone, flag, fan, etc.

These are all common nouns because each of these nouns refer to a common thing, place or person.

Proper noun:

Proper noun is the name of a particular or a specific thing, place or person.

For example Samsung company, Tuesday, June, University of Scotland etc. These are all proper nouns because each of these nouns refer to a particular thing, place a person.

       If a common noun is specified it becomes a proper noun. For example, night is a common noun but if it is specified like Monday or friday, it becomes Proper noun.

Similarly motorcycle is a common noun but if it is specified like Samsung company, it becomes Proper noun.

The first letter of Proper noun is always written in capital letter.

Some examples:

He lives in New York.

She studies and University of Oxford.

The author of this book is Peter.

The richest person of the Universe is Bill Gates.