Another Look At The Parts of Speech

     The usual grouping of the parts  of speech in the English language are: noun, pronoun, verb, ajective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

NOUNS

     A Noun is the name of any person, place, or things. It may be proper or common. Proper nouns are the names of particular persons, places, or things, while common nouns are the names of things used by a class.

     Example of proper nouns:

     Name of particular persons -- Jose Reyes, Carmen Bañez, Gloria, Fe Hipolito Cruz, Jerry Vidal
     Name of particular places -- Bulacan, Pampanga, Masbate, Manila, Philippines, Europe.

     Names of particular things -- Mayon Volcano, Pagsanjan Falls, Sierra Madre Mountain, Lake          

                                                 Buhi, Statue of Liberty, Observatory Hill.
     Names pertaining to the deity -- God, Lord, Saviour, Creator, Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Bathala.

     Names of personified thing, Here are a few examples:
     1. "Save me a like from foolish Pride. Or impious Discontent!" --Pope.
     2. "Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton             
         Wiles, Nods, and Becks,  and wreathed Smiles..." --- Milton.

     Common Nouns

     Common nouns may be collective, concrete, and abstract. Collective nouns are those that denote a group or a multitude, as army, troop, family, crowd, audience, committee, hard, bevy, and flock. Concrete nouns are names of compact, tangible objects and visible things, like house, rock, book, boy, pencil, paper, box, knife, tree, and mountain. Abstract nouns are nouns expressing the qualities of concrete nouns apart from the object, as badness, patience, charity, oblivion, roughness, beauty, endurance, goodness,  and virtue.

     To these three classes of common nouns, some authorities add a fourth class, the diminutives. Here are a few examples of these nouns that express a lessening of the thing or quality: rivulet, kitten, kitchenette, gosting.

     Gender of Nouns

     Gender denotes sex. A male nouns is in the masculine gender, a female noun, in the feminine gender, and all sexless nouns are in the neuter gender. Personified objects, however, are regarded as masculine  if they denote strength, manliness, vigor; feminine, if they denote beauty, softness, kindness, and other feminine attributes. Adam, Pedro, Carlos, boy, and man are in the masculine gender. Mule, cock, and cockerel are likewise in the masculine gender. Eve, Luisa, Carmen,  and Josefa are in the feminine gender. Women, girl, stewardess, mare, pullet, and hen are in the feminine gender, Table, chair, floor and other inanimate objects  in the neuter gender. Very small animate objects are often regarded as in the neuter gender.