EXERCISE : Name things that belong to each category Make a list Compare your list with your classmates' lists AU of the words you use in this exercise are called "nouns." Name clothing you see in this room (shirt) Name kinds of fruit (apple) Name things you drink (coffee) Name parts of the body (head) Name kinds of animals (horse) Name cities in the United States and Canada (new York, Montreal .) NOTE:The names of cities begin with capital letters Name languages (English) NOTE: The names of languages begin with capital letters Name school subjects (history) A NOUN is used as the subject of a sentence A NOUN (a) I Birds I fly I is used as the object of a verb.* In (a): Birds is a NOUN It is used as the subject of the sentence In (b): pen is a NOUN It has the article a in front of it; a pen is used as the object of the verb NOUN subject verb NOUN (b) Uohn NOUN I is holding subject verb ( a pen object is holding A NOUN is also used as the object of a NOUN NOUN I (c) IBirds I fly I in I thesky subject verb prep object of prep NOUN (c) 1J o b I subject NOUN is holding verb I a pen I in I NOUN I his hand object prep object of prep preposition In (c): in is a preposition (prep.) The noun sky (with the article the in front) is the OBJECT of the preposition in Examples of some common prepositions: about, across, at, between, by, for,fmm, in, of, on, to, with *Some verbs are followed by an object These verbs are called transitive verbs (v.t.in a dictionary) Some verbs are not followed by an object These verbs are called intransitive verbs ( v i in a dictionary) NOUNS AND PRONOUNS H 127 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark EXERCISE 2: Describe the grammatical smcture of the sentences as shown in items and i :