Re: Capiltalisation

Tony Mountifield schrieb:
In article <yIYdh.20$v4.18@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tom Burton <thomasburton7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well to be honest when I was at school [I'm 24 now] I managed to miss the
lessons in which we was taught the meaning of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and
alike (what is the collective term)?


The collective term is "parts of speech" of which there are eight: noun, pronoun,
verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

It's quite possible that there weren't any lessons at all in which you would
have been taught this. I'm pretty sure my kids never were!

Even when I was at school in the 60s/70s, I learnt much more about the
structure of English grammar from my German lessons than from English,
although we did have one good English teacher in what is now called Year 9
who drilled us on parts of speech and clause analysis.

Today's quiz question: what part of speech is "the"?

None of the above - it's an article (the definite article, to be specific).

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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