Name: Parts of Speech in English Grammar: NOUNS & ADJECTIVES
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In today's video, I'm going to start talking to you about the parts of speech.

Now, some of you might think this is a lesson for beginners, which it is for the most part,

but even if you're at the intermediate level, even if you're at the advanced level, there's

plenty for you to gain out of this video, so please watch how I explain and I get into

more detail about the different parts of speech.

Now, when I talk about parts of speech, what does this mean?

Well, every word in English has a certain category that it falls into.

So, if you're looking at an English sentence, every word has its part of speech, and it's

very important to know what the different parts of speech are when you're learning how

Because you need to know what can be a subject, what can be a verb, the different types of

verbs, what is an adjective, what is an adverb, you need to know all these things so you can

There's one more here, but I'm not going to worry too much about it.

We have nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, articles, conjunctions, and prepositions.

The one that's not on here is called interjections like "Wow!"

We're not going to worry too much about them because those are a little bit self-explanatory.

So, in this video, I'm going to concentrate on nouns and adjectives, okay?

There will be separate videos for the other conjunctions, you can find links in the description

box for these, and if the link is not there yet, the video is coming, just look out for

So again, today we're looking at nouns and adjectives.

Now, most English teachers, when they teach their students what a noun is, they say it's

a person, a place, or a thing, and that's it.

But you have to get a little bit deeper into what these things mean because there are different

types of ways to talk about person, there are different ways to talk about place, there

are different ways and different types of things, okay?

So, it's important to know all the different ways you can look at a noun and the different

forms that they take, which I'll talk about soon as well.

So, a person doesn't just mean man, woman, or things like that, or the guy over there,

Now, this is called a proper noun, when you're talking about a person's name, it's still

a person, it's still a noun, but it's a proper noun.

Proper nouns always take capital letters.

Bill is a proper noun, it takes a capital B, so we have names.

Pronouns are technically nouns, but as you notice, they're considered a different part

of speech, so I'll talk about those separately.

Title - now people often sometimes forget that your job title, your position in a company

or an organization, this is also a noun, a person noun, okay?

CEO, Chief Executive Officer, that's a noun.

Different ways to talk about people in terms of their position in an organization, in life,

A retiree is an older person who has stopped working.

Usually at 65 years old, but again, retiree is still a noun, and just knowing that it's

a noun helps you place it within a sentence, okay?

Man, woman, there's a lot of different varieties of gender these days, okay?

You have transgender, etc., but gender, male, female, man, woman, etc. these are still person.

You could think of it as a thing, but we'll talk about that separately.

So, a senior, senior can also be an adjective, which we'll talk about after this, but senior

can also be a noun, and you're referring to a person, according to his or her age.

A teen, a youth, etc., all of these are nouns, person nouns, based on their age.

So you can see just saying "person" is not enough.

There's different areas and different types of person, and the same thing for place, different

The name of a place, like Paris, still a proper noun, okay, proper noun - capital.

Beside something - that's preposition, we'll talk about separately.

In the back, in the east, in the northeast, etc.

If I'm looking at it as a place - sorry it's a little messy - east, for example, is a location.

Now, you can think of heaven as a place, some people believe that when they pass away, they

will go to heaven or to hell, depending on the person, but heaven is not a real place,

So it's an abstract place, but it's still a place noun that you have to recognize.

Or, a description of a place can also be - again, the back, or the example escapes me now, but

Thing, now thing is where people get lost when it comes to nouns because they don't

realize that thing can be so many different types of things.

So, first we're going to look at animate and inanimate.

Animate is anything that is living, okay?

Like animals, any animal is technically a thing.

Now, let's say you have a dog or a cat and you're very attached to your pet and it's

a part of the family and it's a male dog.

Technically, the correct pronoun would be "it", because your dog is a thing.

It's an animate thing, but it is a thing.

So, any animal, any fish, anything that is moving, anything that is alive.

Again, the question between plants and animals - plants are technically living things, but

they don't really move, they stay in place, so they're inanimate.

But when we talk about inanimate, we're generally speaking about things that are not alive.

Table, chair, ball, court, street, all of these things are inanimate.

Now, generally, animate and inanimate things can be sensed by the five senses; you can

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