SHORT NOTES ON GRAMMAR

NOUN:

1. A content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action.
2. The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition.

PRONOUN:

1. A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase.

VERB:

1. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
2. A content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence

ADVERB:

1.The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses.
2. A word that modifies something other than a noun.

NOUN - ADJECTIVE:

1. A word that expresses an attribute of something.
2. The word class that qualifies nouns.

Adjective: adjective:

1. Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
2. Relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law.

PREPOSITION:

1. A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

2. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached).

ARTICLE:

1. A determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase.