Saturday, August 14, 2010

Learn English Better

In order to have a good hold over the english language, it is very necessary to know about the grammar of english. Indeed it is true to all the languages. So this writing will help you as english grammar tutorial to some extent and i am sure you will be benefited with this writing.

Following are the 8 parts of speech and definition:

  1. Noun: a part of speech inflected for case, signifying a concrete or abstract entity
  2. Verb: a part of speech without case inflection, but inflected for tense, person and number, signifying an activity or process performed or undergone
  3. Participle: a part of speech sharing the features of the verb and the noun
  4. Interjection: a part of speech expressing emotion alone
  5. Pronoun: a part of speech substitutable for a noun and marked for person
  6. Preposition: a part of speech placed before other words in composition and in syntax
  7. Adverb: a part of speech without inflection, in modification of or in addition to a verb
  8. Conjunction: a part of speech binding together the discourse and filling gaps in its interpretation

Following are the figures of speech:

  1. Similie
  2. Metaphor
  3. Personification
  4. Transferred epithet
  5. Innuendo
  6. Oxymoron 
and so on.

I hope this learning is helpful to you. Next time we will move on some other concepts.



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