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Whether you are taking the #gre or any other exams, understanding some elements of #grammar is important. One of the things you should 🦢definitely🦢 know is parts of speech.

🎚️ Here is part 1️⃣ of the 4️⃣ part series on Parts of Speech

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Nouns refer to persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc.
Nouns encompass most of the words of a language.

🔹Noun can be a/an -
➖Person – a name for a person: - John, Sita, Rahman, Vinay, Srinivas, Abdul, Manoj, etc.
➖Animal – a name for an animal: - Dog, Cat, Rat, Horse, etc.
➖Place – a name for a place: - Mumbai, Delhi, Patna etc.
➖Thing – a name for a thing: - Pen, Pencil, Rubber, Computer, Table etc.
➖Idea – A name for an idea: - devotion, superstition, happiness, excitement, etc.
➖Emotion - A name for an emotion of feeling: anger, sadness, jealousy, tiredness, etc.


8️⃣ Types of Nouns:

1️⃣Proper Noun:
A proper noun is a name which refers only to a single person, place, or thing and there is no common name for it. In written English, a proper noun always begins with capital letters.
Example: Mumbai (it refers to only one particular city), Amit (refers to a particular person)

2️⃣Common Noun:
A common noun is a name for something which is common for many things, person, or places. It encompasses a particular type of things, person, or places.
Example: Country (it can refer to any country, nothing in particular), city (it can refer to any city like Delhi, Mumbai, etc. but nothing in particular).

3️⃣Abstract Noun:
An abstract noun is a word for something that cannot be seen but is there. It has no physical existence. Generally, it refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.
Example: Truth, lies, happiness, sorrow, time, friendship, humour, patriotism, etc.

4️⃣Concrete Noun:
A concrete noun is the exact opposite of abstract noun. It refers to the things we see and have physical existence.
Example: Chair, table, bat, ball, water, money, sugar, etc.

5️⃣Countable Noun:
The nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns. Countable nouns can take an article: a, an, the.
Example: Chair, table, bat, ball, etc. (you can say 1 chair, 2 chairs, 3 chairs – so chairs are countable)

6️⃣Non-countable Noun:
The nouns that cannot be counted are called non-countable nouns.
Example: Water, sugar, oil, salt, etc. (you cannot say “1 water, 2 water, 3 water” because water is not countable)

7️⃣Collective Noun:
A collective noun is a word for a group of things, people, or animals, etc.
Example: family, team, jury, cattle, etc.

8️⃣Compound Noun:
Sometimes two or three nouns appear together, or even with other parts of speech, and create idiomatic compound nouns. Idiomatic means that those nouns behave as a unit and, to a lesser or greater degree, amount to more than the sum of their parts.
Example: six-pack, five-year-old, and son-in-law, snowball, mailbox, etc.

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💡 Abstract nouns and proper nouns are always non-countable nouns, but common nouns and concrete nouns can be both count and non-count nouns.

💡Collective nouns can be both plural and singular. However, Americans prefer to use collective nouns as singular, but both of the uses are correct in other parts of the world.

Will be doing 🆚 Will have done

➡️#grammar #tenses #futuretense

🟢 Will ➕ be ➕ Verb➕ing 🟰 Future Continuous
🟢 Will ➕ have ➕ Past Participle Verb 🟰 Future Perfect


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✅️Future continuous is used to say that an action will be in progress at a specific time in the future:

➡️ In two hours she will be leaving work.



✅️ Future continuous is used for an action in progress in the future which is interrupted by a shorter action:

➡️ I will be waiting for you when you come back.
➡️ I will be sleeping by the time you reach USA


✅️Future continuous is used to predict the present:

➡️ He will be sleeping if you call him.
➡️ The teacher will be administering the test now.

✅️Future continuous is used for arrangements, often as a reminder or warning:

➡️ The train will be leaving at 7AM. (So, don’t be late!)
➡️ I will be attending a session at 9AM. (So, don't call me!)

✅️ Future continuous is used to make enquiries about someone’s plans (without wishing to influence those plans):

➡️ Will you be watching the movie with John? (You simply want to know)

➡️ Will you be taking the car tomorrow? (I just want to know if the car will be free so I can take it in case you don't want to take it.)

✅️ We also use the future continuous to talk about complete actions (rather than ongoing actions) in the future (When we use it in this way, will be (doing) is similar to will (do) and going to (do):

➡️ Later in the class, we will be talking about calculus.
➡️ Shyama will not be playing in the game on Saturday.

Will be doing 🆚 Will have done

➡️#grammar #tenses #futuretense

🟢 Will ➕ be ➕ Verb➕ing 🟰 Future Continuous
🟢 Will ➕ have ➕ Past Participle Verb 🟰 Future Perfect


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✅️ When describing an action that will be completed before another action or point in the future (The action will be completed between now and some point of time in the future.):

➡️ I will have eaten before the class starts.
➡️ By the end of this post, you will have understood the Future Perfect Tense.


✅️ Future perfect says ‘how long’ an action that starts before and continues up to another action or time in the future.

Usually we need ‘for’ to indicate time duration of that action:

➡️ By next February, we will have been a couple for one year.
➡️ By noon today, I will have been working for 24 hours without break.


✅️We use the future perfect with a future time word, (often with 'by') to talk about an action that will finish before a certain time in the future, but we don't know exactly when:

➡️ By 10 o'clock, I will have finished my homework.
➡️ By the time I'm sixty, I will have retired.


✅️ Certainty about the Near Past (to express conviction / confidence / belief / or assumption that something happened in the near past):

➡️ The train will have left by now.
➡️ He will have noticed the missing money by now.