What are adjectives?
What are adjectives? Adjectives are words that describe something. Everything has a name and in English names of things are called ‘nouns’. For example: “The house is beautiful”. The name of the thing is ‘house’ and so ‘house’ is a noun’. The house is described as ‘beautiful’ and so ‘beautiful’ is an adjective. Other common […]
What is ‘part of speech’?
What is ‘part of speech’? ‘Part of speech’ is a formal term used to state what particular type of word a specific word is. There are 9 different ‘parts of speech’ or categories which any word could belong to. The 9 categories are: Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Preposition Pronoun Determiner Conjunction Interjection. Let us look […]