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Explanation: What is a verb?

Verbs are usually words used to express actions or states. In English, verbs are mainly divided into two categories according to their functions, one is predicate verbs and the other is non-predicate verbs.

< For example > Jump, surprise, surprise and other actions are verbs.

In Chinese grammar, it means the action or dynamic change of people or things. It usually appears after the subject or clause of a noun.

Nouns are a kind of parts of speech and belong to content words. Nouns represent the names of people, things, places or abstract concepts, and nouns are divided into proper nouns and common nouns.

Types of noun case: There are three cases of English nouns, namely, nominative case, accusative case and possessive case. Among them, individual nouns refer to individuals in a certain kind of people or things, such as girls. Collective noun represents a collection of individuals, such as the audience. Material nouns denote objects that cannot be divided into individuals, such as water.

Abstract nouns represent abstract concepts such as action, state, quality and feeling, such as work and happiness. Nouns can be divided into countable nouns and uncountable nouns according to their countability.

Adjectives are one of the main parts of speech in many languages. Adjectives are mainly used to describe or modify nouns or pronouns and express the nature of people or things. State, feature or attribute, often used as attribute, can also be used as predicative, complement or adverbial.

Adverbs refer to words that express the characteristics of behavior or state in a sentence, which are used to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs or the whole sentence and express concepts such as time, place, degree and way. Adverbs can be divided into time adverbs, frequency adverbs, place adverbs, way adverbs, degree adverbs, question adverbs, connection adverbs, relationship adverbs, adverbs indicating order and completion.

Extended data:

Adjective: indicates the shape, nature and state of things. Such as "big, tall, earnest, vivid, beautiful, smart, cute, cold, elementary, advanced, simple and complex".

The order of adverbs used together: degree adverb+way adverb+place adverb+time adverb.

Function: a word that modifies or restricts the function of a verb or adjective and indicates the degree or scope.

Nouns can be divided into countable nouns and uncountable nouns.

1, uncountable noun

Uncountable nouns refer to things that cannot be counted by numbers and can not be divided into individual concepts, states, qualities, feelings or substances. Generally, there is no plural form, only singular form, and the indefinite article a/an cannot be added before it. Abstract nouns, material nouns and proper nouns are generally uncountable nouns. Such as milk, bread, coffee, etc.

2. Countable nouns

Countable nouns refer to people or things that can be counted by numbers and divided into individuals, so they have plural forms. Such as cups, cats, etc.

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