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The reason for this post is the lingustic part of the language. I am more interested in sentence construction that nouns and verbs. I just want to be understood and to me that is sentence construction. I am bias against nouns and verbs. I am looking forward to your feedback to my questions and reasons why I am bias against them. Thoughts please?pljames

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Hi;

I am puzzled.

Why are you biased against nouns and verbs, but not pronouns, adjectives, determiners, prepositions, interjections, conjunctions or adverbs?

Nouns and verbs are essential for written and spoken communication. They are the building blocks of sentence construction.

Regards,

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Pljames · Answer

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For some reason I do understand sentences better than nouns and verbs. I want to be understood by what I wrote in a sentence than the basics of the word action, noun verb and so on. There is no perfect language and nothing is perfect even the disciplines in this world. I love the English language especially to write in a sentence to be understood. Sentence construction is the best I can do. pljames

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Hi pljames;

Ah, I understand now.

You might be wondering how a sentence is built from the different linguistic elements.

For illustration, I colored the words in your sentences: blue for nouns, yellow for verbs (or verb phrases) and green for verbals, which are verbs (or verb phrases) acting like nouns. Notice how much of your writing is just nouns and verbs!

For some reason I do understand sentences better than nouns and verbs. I want to be understood by what I wrote in a sentence than the basics of the word action, noun verb and so on. There is no perfect language and nothing is perfect even the disciplines in this world. I love the English language especially to write in a sentence to be understood. Sentence construction is the best I can do. pljames

Joy to the beautiful English language!

Pljames · Answer

Excellent and outstanding! That would make a great teaching tool for those who want to understand the basic building blocks of the English language. Did I get my point across well ( not understanding how nouns and verbs interact with each other)? How could I improve that paragraph using your coloring technic? Does the brackets help get the points understood better? Can I be your friend on this forum? You have my total interest. pljames

AlpheccaStars · Answer

pljames Did I get my point across well ( not understanding how nouns and verbs interact with each other)?

Well there are three basic ways that nouns interact with verbs.

First a noun can be the actor (doer) of the verb. It performs the action.

In English the actor usually comes before the verb. It is called the subject of the verb.

In questions, the actor can come after the main verb, or in between a helping verb and main verb. (In fact the change in position of the subject actually tells us that the sentence is a question. )

Second, the noun can get the results of the action. It is called the direct object of the verb.

Third, the noun can be a second (indirect) object. It comes after the verb and before the direct object, or it follows the direct object in a to or for prepositional phrase.

There can be a few more complications, such as active and passive voice, where the subject and object positions are reversed.

pljames How could I improve that paragraph using your coloring technique?

Well, you could use other colors for the other parts of speech. But then a paragraph would look like a broken rainbow!

Feel free to ask more questions. There are lots of helpful teachers who answer questions here.

Pljames · Answer

I praise you for your patience. Question, is it possible to use other names than verbs nouns and such. Like a helping word before and after the noun verb etc? Example, The cat sat on the mat (cat sat and mat cat noun mat thing and sat verb? The words on the are helping words? I associate the words with the sentence hopefully with common sense common logic and rational reasoning. But your chart helps greatly. The definition of the words are accepted as used and memorized. It would seem normal that readers use these words everyday and understand them.

My style of writing is to get the point across. I am beginning to think about the language HTML within my writing. Thoughts please? pljames

AlpheccaStars · Answer

The parts of speech are: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, determiner, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

Every word in every sentence will be one of these parts of speech. The parts of speech are used in the construction of a sentence.

English is an "SVO" language. S=subject (a noun or pronoun), V=verb (main verb or verb phrase), O = object (a noun or pronoun).

Notice that a noun or pronoun can perform different functions in a sentence - subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition (an a few others.)

Your sentence (The cat sat on the mat. ) has six words: two nouns (cat, mat), one verb (sat), one preposition (on), and two determiners (the).

You sentence has a subject, but not a direct object:

The cat (subject) sat (verb) on (preposition) the mat (object of preposition).

You can add adjectives before the nouns:

The skinny young black cat sat on the big round red mat.

You can add adverbs after the verb:

The cat sat quietly and patiently on the mat.

pljamesI am beginning to think about the language HTML within my writing. Thoughts please? pljames

HTML is not a human language. It is not for people to read, but for your web browser to read and display.

Here are some very simple examples:

http://html.comsci.us/examples/blank.html

and more detailed examples: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp

For the most part, HTML is written using special computer programs that design web sites. HTML is extremely tedious to write by hand.

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