Name: Basic English Grammar: Parts of Speech noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb...
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I would like to talk about something
that will help you understand English,

What are the parts of speech
and how do you use them?

The second is called syntax, which is a
very complicated word for word order.

Where do you put the
words in a sentence?

In some languages they have a different word
order, some languages it doesn't really matter,

but what my job today is, is to
show you where the words go and:

What do they basically
mean-okay-in the parts of speech?

Now, if you're new to English or even if you're
an intermediate student, sometimes this causes

You've heard the terms: "preposition", "determiner",
"syntax", and you're like: "Oh, it's so complicated."

It will help you understand
and use English better.

So I'm going to start off with the most basic
part of parts of speech, and I want to start

An animal, a cat or a dog, or
an apple, these are things.

We call these things nouns, because
nouns name people - Hi, I'm James;

places - Toronto, Ontario; things - my watch;
animals - a cat, meow; and food - an apple.

But sometimes you don't want to keep
using the same noun again and again.

"James ate the apple and James walked his
dog as James talked to his friend, Oliver,

It gets what we call repetitive and boring, and
it also makes the sentences go really slow.

And sometimes we want to use
the noun in a different way.

So in this case we introduce
what's called pronouns.

Pronouns can replace
nouns in a sentence.

So now you could say something like this:
"James ate the apple and he walked his dog."

Instead of: "James ate the apple and James
walked his dog", we can use a pronoun to replace

Now, we talked about
word order or syntax.

In order to use a pronoun
first you must use the noun.

You introduce the noun and then you
can replace it with a pronoun.

That's why you see number
one then number two.

If I started a sentence at the
beginning: "He went to the store."

The very first thing you will
say to me is: "Who's he?"

I go: "Oh, James went to the store
and he bought the apples there."

So, pronouns kind of number two because you
have to actually introduce first with a noun,

I'm just going to go over and show you
a couple of them so you get an idea.

Pronouns include: "I", "we",
which are subject pronouns.

Object pronouns when we're talking about something
that's not us, but something on the other

side that receives action, as a
subject pronoun I do things.

Well, they are receiving it and
we call those object pronouns.

So the most basic ones are
subject and object pronouns.

One is doing something,
one is receiving.

There are reflexive pronouns, like: "himself"
where somebody is talking about themselves.

So he's talking about him as an object,
but reflecting it back to himself.

There are others, but I'm not going to get
into them right now because I want to keep

this simple just so you know what the parts
of speech are, and you can always come to

engVid to come and see other
lessons in which we go deeply into

reflexive pronouns, object
and subject pronouns.

So we talked about how pronouns can
replace nouns, and we're good with that.

So let's go to stage number three, because
once you've replaced them, how do you know

The word itself can be broken
into two parts: "ject" and "ad".

Do you remember when I said subject and
object, and I gave you the example?

I said, for instance: "I"
is a subject pronoun.

When you look at an adjective, "ad" means to
put on, you add, like two plus two is four,

So an adjective you add to a pronoun
or a noun to describe them.

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