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ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR GRADE 10

ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR GRADE 10. BY G.H.C.HAMBAYI. Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections. Parts of Speech. Nouns and Pronous. Nouns. A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. Persons Places Things Ideas.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR GRADE 10

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  1. ENGLISH LANGUAGEFOR GRADE 10 BY G.H.C.HAMBAYI

  2. Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections Parts of Speech

  3. Nouns and Pronous

  4. Nouns • A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea

  5. Persons Places Things Ideas • Teacher cities baseball leadership • Mrs Musa Lusaka Hoe cowardice • Family Monze canoe liberty

  6. There are several kinds of nouns: Proper and common, Compound, and Collective.

  7. Proper and Common Nouns • A Proper noun is the name or title of a particular person, place, thing, or idea; it always begin with a capital letter. • A Common noun refers to a category or a class of people, places, thing, or ideas. • You cannot capitalize a common noun unless it begins a sentence. • Common Noun - She is going to school. • Proper Noun - She is going to Chelstone School

  8. Exercise 1 Label the following nouns as Proper or Common. • river • newspaper • town • October • Richard • Choma

  9. Compound Nouns A Compound noun consist of two or more words used together to form a single noun. One kind of Compound noun consists of two or more words joined together. blue + print = blueprint Base + ball = baseball

  10. A third kind of compound noun consists of two words often us they are not joined. • Mountain lion • Ice cream

  11. A forth kind of compound noun is a proper name that consists of more than one word. • Mrs Hambayi • Gulf Stream

  12. Collective Nouns A collective noun refers to a group of people, places, things, or ideas. • The herd moved slowly across the prairie. • Our family discussed vacation plans. [Herd and family are collective nouns.

  13. Exercise 2 Identify the nouns in the following sentences. Example: The aeroplane descended in the clouds. Answer : aeroplane, clouds 1. He was a fellow named Bill. 2. Soon the first passenger walked down the steps 3. He headed for the line if taxis outside the terminal.

  14. Pronouns A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun. Pronouns identify persons, places, things, and ideas without renaming them. Jane is an athlete. She trains everyday. Many people attended the concert. They enjoyed it. The noun that a pronoun replaced is the antecedent of the pronoun.

  15. Personal Pronouns Personal pronoun require different forms to express person, number, and gender . • When you write or speak about yourself, you use first-persons pronouns: I, me, we, us. • When you refer to your audience, you use the second-person pronoun, you. • When you refer to other people or things, you use third-person pronouns, such as he, she, they, it and them.

  16. Possessive Pronoun Personal pronouns have possessive forms to show ownership or belonging. • The house is ours. • Is that pen mine?

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