Verb and Adverb notes
1. Verb is an action word or state of the subject.
Three types of Verbs
1. Main Verbs or Lexical verbs
- Main verbs show what the subject does or its state.
2. Auxiliary Verbs or Helping Verbs
- Helps create questions or negative statements or show tense(e.g. be, do, and have)
3. Modal Verbs
- Show special conditions like ability, probability, or suggestion (e.g. may, can, might)
Adverbs
- Adverbs describes a verb, adjective, or other adverbs.
- Adverbs that ends in "ly" are called regular adverbs.
- Some adverbs do not follow the -ly rule. These are called irregular adverbs.
For example:
1. The early bird gets the worm.
- The word early is an adjective because it describes the noun (bird).
2. Those daily emails are too long. (adjective)
- The word daily is an adjective since it describes the email, which is a noun.
Conjunctions and Prepositions
Conjunctions connects acts as a bridge or connects nouns, phrases or sentences.
2 Types of Conjunctions
1. Coordinating Conjunctions - Connects two parts of a sentence that have similar or equal importance. Use FANBOYS for example.
2. Subordinating Conjunctions - Connects two parts of a sentence by showing relationship between them. It acts as bridge for two parts of a sentence that do not have an equal importance. For example:
1. They are happy because their life is perfect
- They are happy is a more important because it is a complete idea.
- "because their life is perfect" is not equal with the first clause since it is not a complete idea.
Prepositions
- shows a relationship of place, time, movement, and others between a noun, pronoun, and the rest of the sentence.
Interjections- It is a written expression in english (e.g. Wow!, Ow!, Ouch!)