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Communication Skills-I Sanjay Prasad Pandey, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 11: Articles, Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Articles
11.2 Nouns
11.2.1 Countable Nouns

11.2.2 Uncountable Nouns
11.2.3 Nouns used as Countable as well as Uncountable
11.3 Writing Names with and without “the”
11.4 Adjectives

11.4.1 Describing Things
11.4.2 Adding Information
11.4.3 Circumstances
11.5 Adverbs
11.5.1 Identifi cation

11.5.2 Types
11.5.3 Inversion
11.6 Summary
11.7 Keywords

11.8 Self Assessment
11.9 Review Questions
11.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

z Realise the proper use of articles
z Describe the countable and uncountable nouns
z Know the role of adjectives
z Discuss the use of adverbs

Introduction

This unit covers articles, nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

Articles are one of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or defi ne their
application.

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