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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 - Nouns

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Grammar Spree Leaning grammar is very interesting and at times very entertaining even though many students find it difficult to learn grammar Therefore let's start from the very beginning In English language  there are hundreds and thousands  of    which have different forms and functions Let's look at what kinds of words we have There are words which we identify as nouns adjectives determiners pronouns verbs adverbs prepositions conjunctions and interjections    All these are also called Parts of Speech. Lets begin with Noun is a word that we use to name we name : a person or people boy , woman ,Pavan an animal cat , lion,  camel  a thing table, pen, box a place village, Wattala ,town an idea price, noise, friendship a quality kindness, beauty, pride a state peace, honesty, harmony an event competition , concert, sports meet an action  cycling,...