Revising Your Work
This chapter is a revision one to reinforce what you have
learnt.
Revising the parts of speech
Each word is a part of speech which has a role to play in
your sentence.
Remembering nouns
Concreteorcommon nounsare the names of things:
book table
Proper nounsare the names of people or places and always
start with a capital letter:
Alison EnglandAbstract nounsare states or feelings: beauty happiness
Collective nounsare singular words which refer to a group of
objects or people:
team crowd audienceGerundsare verb-nouns formed from the present participle
of the verb:
crying shopping10
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