Noun - A word which names something. e.g.
cat, person, essay, report, theory .
Object - The person or thing to which something happens or is done. e.g.
I wrote an essay .
An object can be
direct (e.g.
My lecturer marked the report ) or
indirect (
The waiter served the singer a drink .) You could rewrite the indirect example with the word
to :
The waiter served a drink to the singer . In this sentence, the waiter is the
subject
,
a drink is the
direct object (the
thing that the waiter served) and
the singer is the
indirect object (the person to whom the
waiter served the drink).
Part of speech - The way words are divided in English grammar books and explained in
dictionaries. e.g.
adjective, noun, verb Person - A word used to refer to pronouns and verbs to show who is doing an action.
First person singular -
I go First person plural -
we go Second person singular -
you go Second person plural -
you go Third person singular -
he, she, it goes Third person plural -
they go Preposition - A small word that shows a relationship between two nouns (e.g.
an essay on linguistics ) or a verb and a noun (e.g.
to write about linguistics ). (Please see
the
prepositions
section of this website for more information.)
Pronoun -
A word in the place of another
noun
.
Subject
pronouns:
I, you, he, she, it, we, they Object
pronouns:
me, you, him, her, it, us, them Possessive pronouns:
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
