Homophones: Same pronunciation, different meaning
What are Homophones? Homophones are words that sound the same when spoken, but have different spellings and different meanings. ...
English
In English, we can categorise certain words into the 8 parts of speech. Some words are more than one part of speech. For example, cook is both a verb and a noun.
Noun: The cook is busy in the kitchen.
Verb: I don’t want to cook, let’s go to a restaurant instead.
A verb is a word that describes an action, state or occurrence. He are some basic forms of the verb walk.
She walks to work. – present simple tense (3rd person singular)
She walked to work. – past simple tense
She is walking to walk. – present continuous /gerund (-ing)
She has walked to work. – present perfect
She had worked to work. – past perfect
Nouns are words that are used to identify things, people and places.
He is a teacher.
She lives in London.
Did you see that boat?
Love is all you need.
Pronouns are used to replace nouns.
Tom’s mother gave him some money. He took it to the shop and bought some sweets.
In this sentence, Tom is the noun. He is the pronoun which replaces Tom.
Don’t tell me what to do.
Where are you going?
She is tall.
It is in my car.
Is this yours?
This is confusing!
Who wrote this?
Invite whomever you want.
I will try and remind myself.
A word that describes or gives us more information about a noun.
The green book.
She’s young.
It’s colder than I remember. – Comparative form
He’s the richest man in the world – Superlative form
The Adverb
A word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb.
She quickly changed her clothes.
I really don’t understand.
She called me yesterday.
We sometimes go fishing.
Prepositions show us the relationship between a noun and another word in a sentence.
We lived in France.
Your keys are on the table.
We walked through the park.
The Conjunction
Conjunctions are used to join parts of sentences/ clauses together.
I had a shower and a shave.
Let me know when you are ready to leave.
We went to the beach because she loves swimming.
Although we were tired, we stayed up late.
I don’t have much time, but I will help you anyway.
We use interjections to show strong emotions and feelings that occur suddenly.
Hey! You are standing on my foot!
Ah, now I understand.
Eh? What did she say?
Ow! That hurt!
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