{"id":2131,"date":"2017-04-26T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2017-04-26T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:43:45","slug":"words-used-as-different-parts-of-speech-class-8-and-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/words-used-as-different-parts-of-speech-class-8-and-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Words used as different parts of speech | Class 8 and 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some words in English have the same form even when they are used as different parts of speech. For example, the word <strong>progress<\/strong> can be a noun or a verb.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No nation <strong>can progress<\/strong> without the contribution of its people. (Here the word progress is used as a verb.)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>progress<\/strong> of a nation depends upon the contribution of its people. (Here the word progress is used as a nation.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to recognize nouns and verbs?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/nouns.htm\"><strong>Nouns<\/strong> <\/a>are words used as the subject or object of a verb or a preposition. They are the names of people, places and things. Nouns do not have past or past participle forms. They can be used with articles (a, an, the) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/determiners.htm\">determiners<\/a> (e.g. my, this, that, his, any, some etc.). If you can\u2019t find out whether a particular word is a noun or not, try using an article or a determiner with it. Or see if the word has a plural form.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018discovery\u2019, for example, is a noun. It has a plural form \u2013 <em>discoveries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It can be used with articles and determiners \u2013 <em>a discovery, the discovery, any discovery, my discovery, this discovery etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note that plural and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/countable-nouns.htm\">uncountable nouns <\/a>cannot be used with the articles a and an. Uncountable nouns are words that refer to things we cannot count. Therefore, they do not have a plural form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/verbs.htm\">Verbs<\/a> are action words. Verbs change their form when the tense changes. They have past and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/participles.htm\">past participle forms<\/a>. They also have -ing forms. If you can\u2019t find out whether a particular word is a verb or not, see if it has an -ing form or a past participle form.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the word \u2018discover\u2019 is a verb. It has a past and past participle form \u2013 discovered. It has an \u2013ing form \u2013 discovering.<\/p>\n<h2>Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>A group of words are given below. Identify the nouns and verbs.<\/p>\n<p>(students, country, Rahul, work, take, forest, resource, break, lie, English, language, books, painting, draw, inspire, product, manufacture, company, equipment, invent, invention, discover, discovery, parent, instructor, assignment, truth, year, leave)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Noun<\/td>\n<td>Verb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Students<\/p>\n<p>Country<\/p>\n<p>Rahul<\/p>\n<p>Forest<\/p>\n<p>Resource<\/p>\n<p>Lie (a lie \/ many lies)<\/p>\n<p>English<\/p>\n<p>Language<\/p>\n<p>Books<\/p>\n<p>Painting<\/p>\n<p>Product<\/p>\n<p>Company<\/p>\n<p>Equipment<\/p>\n<p>Invention<\/p>\n<p>Discovery<\/p>\n<p>Parent<\/p>\n<p>Instructor<\/p>\n<p>Assignment<\/p>\n<p>Truth<\/p>\n<p>Year<\/td>\n<td>Work<\/p>\n<p>Take<\/p>\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<p>Lie (lying, lied)<\/p>\n<p>Draw<\/p>\n<p>Inspire<\/p>\n<p>Manufacture<\/p>\n<p>Invent<\/p>\n<p>Discover<\/p>\n<p>leave<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Try using an article or a determiner with the nouns. Examples are given below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The truth, this year, any equipment, the instructor, our product, this discovery, an invention, the company, any parent, the resources etc<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note that we cannot use an article or a determiner with proper nouns (e.g. Rahul).<\/p>\n<p>Verbs have different forms<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Work \/ works \/ worked \/ working<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Break \/ breaks \/ broke \/ broken \/ breaking<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Discover \/ discovers \/ discovering \/ discovered<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some words in English have the same form even when they are used as different parts of speech. For example, the word progress can be a noun or a verb. 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