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What are nouns

name of a thing, an idea, a place or a person

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What are the kinds of nouns?

Proper noun, common noun, collective noun, abrstract noun and compound noun.

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What is a proper noun?

Name of a specific person

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What is common noun?

A name given to a class of people - City, teacher, Player, river and City

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What is collective noun?

A name given to a group of people - herd, flock, army

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Abstract Noun

Denoting to Idea, quality or state - Happiness, Sadness, truth, lie. If you can replace these word with a thing then it is a noun. Example - Truth is not a lie or something is not a lie
Hapiness is what I am looking for or Something is what I am looking for.

Even love an pride also works

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What is countable noun?

Nouns that can take singular or plural for “s”. A countable noun will always be accompanied by a or an.
Plural form will be accompanied by some, any or numbers

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What is uncountable noun?

Milk, rice, water. They always have one form and they can not be expressed in plural.
A glass of milk
A cup of coffee for her and I

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What are pronouns

He, she, they, her, them, myself, themselves, who, which, that. Used in place of nouns.

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What are adjectives?

Any describing word which adds more meaning to a noun or a pronoun. It could b -

Quality
Quantity
interrogative adjective

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I prefer english than mathematics - Correct this sentence . And why?

I prefer English to mathematics. “ ER or OR ending words will always take “to” in comparison

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My brother is taller than me - correct this sentence

My brother is taller than I

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What are verbs?

Action words. they are different from gerunds.
Main verb - action verbs
Auxiliary or helping verb - Forms of is , am , were, had, shall, was and will (state of being)

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what are adverbs?

anything with ly

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Conjunction

and, but, or, so, for, because, yet, while, after, and although, Conecting 2 sentences

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Interjection