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MATERIAL COMPILADO POR ROSELIA SILVA.

UNIT II. THE SENTENCE. ELEMENTS OF THE SENTENCE: NOUN, ADJECTIVE, VERB, ADVERB. SIMPLE SENTENCE AND COMPOUND SENTENCE.
La oración (the sentence), es la menor unidad informativa. Indivisible en otras unidades informativas. Contiene un sentido completo o acabado y propio.
For instance: Latin popular music reflects gender, race, class and national identities.

Sustantivo (noun), parte variable de la oración que designa persona, animal o cosa.
Verbo (verb), indica esencia, acción o estado de los seres.
Adjetivo (adjective), modifica al sustantivo, describe a personas, animales, cosas, lugares.
Adverbio, modifica a un verbo, adjetivo y a otro adverbio

SENTENCE VERB
ADVERB (adj +ly) sincerely
(action ) learn, run, study, eat.

ADJECTIVE (modify nouns) useful, systematic, slow.
NOUN
(persons, animals, things) story, girl, table, machine, engineering
(cities, nationalities, occupations, sports, place, food).

What are Nouns?
The simple definition is: a person, place or thing
teacher, school, book
Countable Nouns, Uncountable Nouns
Why is this important? Why do some nouns have no plural?
dog/dogs, rice, hair(s)
Proper Nouns (Names)
Do we say "Atlantic Ocean" or "the Atlantic Ocean"? Should I write "february" or "February"?
Shirley, Mr Jeckyll, Thailand, April, Sony
Possessive 's
Adding 's or ' to show possession.
John's car, my parents' house
Noun as Adjective
Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun is "acting as" an adjective.
love story, tooth-brush, bathroom