“Existence” can’t be a verb, first of all because verbs don’t usually come after “in” or any other preposition but “to.” So display isn’t a verb, but a noun. What may be the oldest piece of art in existence is on display in the Israel Museum. So now we are sure, marketing is a verb, and it’s something James Young did. The adverb can come before or after the verb it describes.
On the dots you can only fill in a verb, can’t you?Īnother clue is “successfully.” A word with –ly at the end is an adverb, so that means a word describing a verb. Why is it a verb here? Well, first of all because there is an object, oil. Now with “marketing” we can’t be sure just from the ending. James Young, a Scottish chemist, died a wealthy man, having amassed a great fortune by successfully marketing paraffin lighting oil.Īmassed is a verb, because it has –ed at the end. –ion is an ending (suffix) that is used in nouns. If it were a noun, the word would be invention. It’s known when gunpowder was first used in a war, but it is not known when gunpowder was invented. Verbs are words that describe an action (something that is done).įor instance, you’re a student doing an exam and you read this sentence: Nouns are words that mean a thing, a person, an animal or a feeling. You also need to be able to switch between nouns and verbs to be an effective writer.
It’s a skill that is especially useful for exams in which the vocabulary is a little more difficult than what you can handle. But if they don’t know what the function is of the words, they are unable to work out the correct meaning of the sentence. In other words if they know the function of a word. What I’ve seen with my students is they can guess what the meaning is of a sentence when they know what a noun is and what a verb is. And it can also make you a better writer. Often, especially when your English gets better, it’ll help you understand a text when you know which words are nouns and which are verbs.
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