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Grammar - Common Nouns

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Lets look at Common Nouns    Look at the following sentences The  teacher is  sitting at the table.  The word teacher is common to all teachers it can be applied to any teacher not only to any particular special teacher. A girl is carrying some books . Here the word girl is common to all girls and the word book is also common   to any book.  Therefore    They can refer to any  girl or any book not only to any  special or particular girl or book. The  students  are sitting in their  students  . Here the word  students  is common to all  students   and   class is also common to any class .  Th erefore they   can be applied to any student or any class Therefore we called these nouns  teacher, girl, books, students,  etc. Common Nouns Common Noun is a name given in common to every person ,thing and a pl...

Grammar - Proper Nouns

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There are Different Kinds of Nouns Proper Nouns Common Nouns Collective Nouns Abstract Nouns Countable Nouns  Uncountable Nouns Lets begin  with Proper Nouns Look at the following sentences Mr.Perera is our Maths teacher.  Here Mr.Perera   refers  to a particular teacher   It is maths teacher's real name  Pavan and Pahan  are  Parami's friends    Here Pavan  and  Pahan    refers  to particular friends of Parami   They are Param's friends real names Queen Elizabeth  ruled England. Here    Queen  Elizabeth  refers  to particular queen. It is a real name of a queen Therefore  the nouns : Mr.Perera Pavan Pahan Queen  Elizabeth are called   Proper Nouns Proper means one's own therefore proper name is a person's own name.  They are t...

Grammar - Possessive Pronouns

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  Possessive Pronouns                                                       A   Possessive Pronoun  shows who or what something belong to. It is used in place of a noun phrase and  prevents repetition. Following are the possessive pronouns  mine,ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs Look how  they are used in sentences! mine This is  my bag. This bag is mine   Everything that belong to me is my thing This bag  belongs to me. therefore  This is my bag. so we can say This bag is mine.    ours That is  our house That house is ours . Everything that belong to us is ours . The house belongs to us therefore   That is our house .  so we can say That house is ours . ...