A Lesson Most of you
Grammer
in
no doubt familiar with nouns, verbs,
are
adverbs, adjectives ans such. However, here are
may have
things your English teachers
A noun,
you know
is
"
A word
Dictionary).
A proper noun whic
church and kindness.
therefore
common
less
tell
you.
used to name a
person,place,thing,quality, or action" (The
quality, or action
some
neglected to
is
American Heritage
a person, place, thing,
considered to be good and proper, such as
is
An
improper noun
in a
noun which
is
consid-
ered to be in itself improper, such as deception. Proper nouns
may
also include any person,place, or to particular people, but not
others and improper nouns include any person,place, thing,quality,
or action that
inappropriate in a particular situation,time,place,or
is
to particular people.
proper
may
in
A good example of this
situations,
it
is
is
laughter.
nouns also include words signifying a person, place, or action which
it
is
improper
Although
improper during funerals. Proper to use in a
thing, quality,
given situation. This
especially important for writers to understand. For example, are writing an historical novel set about
one hundred
is
if
you
years
fifty
ago, you will most likely want to avoid using the term "leg" as
respectable people did not use that
more acceptable
to say
"One of the
word
at that time. It is
table limbs
Proper and improper verbs follow proper and improper nouns. Murder
is
much
much
broken."
the
and slander are
same rules as good examples
of improper verbs.
A the
helping noun
name of the
need.
"We went
ruined.
I
is
what you use when you cannot think of
person, place, thing, quality, or action that you
over there and they gave us the things. They were
have never before experienced such, you know." They
also include such
words as dodad, whatchamacallit, and do
flotchymajigger. In addition to declerative, imperative, interrogative,
exclamatory sentences, there are inflammatory sentences. important to
know what
and
It is
they are in order to avoid making the.
Inflammatory sentences are those intended
to
"arouse strong
emotion, as passion or anger" ("inflammatory",
AHD)
