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Unit 2 covered parts of speech including nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions. A basic sentence includes a subject, a verb, an object. Nouns are people, manes, places, things, qualities, and states. The main types of nouns are common nouns, proper nouns, compound nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns. In addition, there are countable and uncountable nouns. Adjectives describe nouns, people, and things and are either comparative or superlative adjectives. Articles are indefinite or definite preceding a noun. Verbs are transitive, intransitive, infinitive or auxiliary. Verb forms include base, past simple, past participate, and present participate. Adverbs add meaning or information to an action, quality or state of a verb. Types of adverbs include manner, place, time, degree, frequency, comment, linking, viewpoint or adding. Gerunds add an "ing" to the end of a verb to use it as a noun. Pronouns are words that are used in place of precise nouns or noun phrases. The types of pronouns include personal, possessive, reflexive, or relative. Prepositions are the relationship between nouns or pronouns and other words. The three types include time/date, movement, and place/position. Lastly, conjunctions join words or groups in a sentence. Upon reflection, I realized that I have not reflected on the parts of speech of the sentences I use while speaking unless I am speaking or learning another foreign language. This Unit refreshed my memory from primary school where I originally learned this content matter. I now feel I have a greater conscious understanding of how and why I speak English in the order I speak it.
