Learn English Grammar: NOUN, VERB, ADVERB, ADJECTIVE

Meow, and hello there.

My name's Ronnie, and today, you are going to learn very simple, but very essential - which

means important - grammar lesson.

Oh, grammar, it's terrible; it's easy.

And I am always amazed at the number of people who have been studying English for a long

time and maybe are intermediate or a higher level of English that don't know the basics

of English grammar; noun, verb, adverb, and adjective.

And guess what?

Even some native English speakers - no, I do - don't know this stuff.

So, if you are seeing this for the first time, don't feel bad if it's new; just come along

with me and learn.

It'll be great.

So, the first word I've written on the board is a noun.

Now, a noun is - I always remember this - a person, a place, or a thing.

Sometimes a noun is capitalized.

Now, "capitalized" means that there's a big letter, like a big "M" for "Mom", or the city

of Toronto, they have a capital letter - why, Ronnie? - because they are proper nouns.

Oh, they're so proper.

A proper noun just means it's a name of a person or a place, and it must have a big

or capital letter.

So, in a sentence at the beginning, if I put "Mom", I would put a capital letter.

Every time I have the name of a city or a country being a proper noun, it has to have

a capital as well, so be careful of that one.

So, a person would be "Mom"; a place would be "Toronto"; it can be a city, it can be

a town, a village - doesn't matter; and then a thing, and anything, really - a marker - anything

you see that's a thing is a noun.

So, we have lots of nouns all the time.

Noun, noun, noun.

Oh, there's noun.

There's noun, noun, noun, noun, noun.

So, person, place, or thing.

Remember, a noun is a person, a place, or a thing.

You try.

A noun is - yes, person, place, or thing.

See?

That was easy.

Now, a verb.

Dah, dah, dah, dah.

You might have studied in school the famous verb "to be", the verb "to be".

It's a verb, but a verb is an action word - dah, dah, dah, dah - or a state of being.

So, a lot of the times we get confused because we know the verb "to be" is a verb, but when

you think about it, you're like, "But it's not an action word!"

It's okay.

"Be" and "have" are also verbs, but they're not an action verb, but that's okay.

We don't have to follow the rules all the time.

No, we don't.

Don't worry about that.

So, basically, noun, person, place, thing, verb is an action word or a state of being.

The verb "to be" or "have".

And watch out for the conjugations, right?

There's "is", "am", "are" with the verb "to be", and we also have "have" or "has".

Now, if you need some help with those verbs, you can check out other lessons on www.engvid.com

or on YouTube, on my channel, and you can find those wonderful lessons, too.

But let's move on to the next one.

Now, this is the science of everything - oops - the science of the sound.

So, an adverb has the word "verb" in it, so that's fun.

So, I always remember it like this.

An adverb is going to describe a verb, so it tells us how the action was done.

For example, "slowly", "fast", "quietly", "loudly", "Rawr, rawr, rawr", "Ronnie, kick

the chair loudly", okay?

We're talking about the verb, so the adverb is always going to talk about the verb.

Oh, that makes sense, cool, but then we have an adjective, and we have many, many, many,

many, many, many adjectives in English.

For example, "color", "purple", "shape", "round", "size", "big", "small", "large", "brut", adjectives

are all around us, and a lot of people get adverbs and adjectives confused, but you don't

have to, because if an adverb describes a verb, what do you think an adjective does?

An adjective is going to describe a noun, oh yeah, so if I wanted to describe my mom,

I can say "mom", which is my noun, then I can use a verb, "runs", "How does she run?"

is going to be my adverb.

"Mom runs fast", so in this sentence, "mom", because it's a person, is a noun, "runs" is

a verb, it's an action word, and then "fast" describes how my mom runs.

Let's use an example of a sentence using an adjective.

We have the noun of Toronto, Toronto's a city, it's a noun, it's a proper noun, it has to

have a capital, and oh, where's the verb here?

I don't see an action word, we don't have "runs" or "jump" or "hide", oh, "be", no,

"have", no, oh, oh, but remember, when you conjugate the verb "to be", oh, if it's singular,

we use "is", so we say "Toronto is", that's our verb, and then "big" is an adjective,

it describes Toronto, so "big" is the adjective that describes the place.

What's your city?

Tell me an adjective that would describe your city.

Is it big, small, is it loud, is it quiet, is it boring?

Tell me about your city.

Another way that we use adjectives, talk about colour, so, for example, oh, meow, oh, hey,

guy, what's up, oh, look at the cat, so, the cat is red, I'm talking about the colour of

the cat, and I can say "the cat has", so this is my verb, "has a long tail", so let's look

at these sentences, and what we're going to do is we're going to find the noun, the verb,

the adverb, and the adjective, if we can, so let's look at this first sentence.

Oh, no, the cat, oh, don't jump, oh, the cat jumped off the table, he's okay, he's okay.

Mom is what, is it a noun, a verb, an adverb, or an adjective?

Mom is a person, so it's a noun.

Runs is an action word, it's a verb, we usually put a V for a verb, and fast is going to explain

how she runs, so we're going to use here an adverb.

Toronto is a noun, Toronto is verb big, big is an adjective, and here's another really

important tidbit of information, usually when we have the verb to be, it's going to be followed

by an adjective, Toronto is big, the cat is red, so in the next sentence, let's look at

the noun, the verb, and the adjective, so it's your chance, please tell me in the sentence

where the noun is in this sentence, the cat is big, so remember, the noun is a person,

a place, or a thing, meow, meow, oh, good, cat, so cat is the noun, and the verb is going

to be is, and then we're talking about or describing the cat, and we're talking about

the color, the cat is red, so red is going to be the adjective, so cat is the noun, is

the verb, and red is the adjective, hmm, we have another cat here, what can you tell me

about this cat, let's use an adjective, describe the cat, I can say the cat is pink, the cat

is cute, aw, so cute's an adjective as well, let's look at this sentence, this is yours,

you do this, and you tell me the answer, so I want you to tell me which is the noun, which

is the verb, which is the adjective, or the adverb, so the cat has a long tail, so person,

place, or thing, I'm going to use cat as our noun, verb, remember, has is a form of have,

so that's our verb, and then we're describing something, we're describing the cat's tail,

so long is our adjective, and tail is a person, a place, or a thing, it's a noun as well,

so you can have two nouns or two adjectives in a sentence, that's okay, so be creative,

make a sentence, so, learning the basics of English grammar, a noun, person, place, or

thing, a verb, action word, or state of being, adverb, describes the verb, or an adjective,

describing the noun, this one's the most confusing, will really, really help you with your basic

English grammar, and even in advanced English grammar, very, very important, well, I'm off

to go chase some kittens around, I'll talk to you later, buh-bye.