Noun vs verb

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Hi,   I am learning english.what is the difference between noun and verb.How to use that when we speak,write.It is very very difficult to understand for me.please any one reply

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

You use nouns to name people, places, and things in the world. These are used, among other things, to make the subjects of sentences. In other words, they are things you can say something about.

Nouns: table, chair, pen, paper, computer, desk, shelf, book, key, car, truck, floor, wall, lamp, finger, arm, head, cow, dog, bird, flower, mother, father, cousin, Gary, Jane, Louis, Mr. Smith, Mrs. Brown, London, France, India, China, Chicago.

You use verbs to express actions. The verbs tell something about the nouns.

Verbs: jump, run, throw, go, move, say, do, show, look, find, talk, walk, ...

You also use verbs to express states and relationships.

Verbs: have, be, contain, own, seem, ...
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The dog ran. (dog is a noun. It says what you are talking about. ran is a verb. It says what the dog did.)
Henry walks. (Henry is a noun. It says who you are talking about. walks is a verb. It says what Henry does.)

CJ

Khoff · Answer

I'm just curious -- doesn't your native language have nouns and verbs?

CalifJim · Answer

It seems to me that all languages have nouns and verbs, but not every educational system in the world has grammar in their curriculum. Many ESL students are not exposed to concepts like the parts of speech until they learn English, because the topic was never brought up in the context of their own native language.

CJ

Khoff · Answer

That makes sense -- thanks, Jim!

Anonymous · Answer

how can we explain that believe is a verb and belief is a  noun

CalifJim · Answer

AnonymousHow can we explain that 'believe' is a verb and 'belief' is a noun?

We cannot explain it. We can only observe that it is true. By accidents of history it might have turned out that 'belief' was a verb and 'believe' was a noun, but that is not what happened.

On the other hand, if you just want to show that 'belief' is a noun, you can give examples where it is used with determiners and adjectives, just as all other nouns are used. And to show that 'believe' is a verb, you can give examples where it is used with various verb inflections, like -ing and -ed, just as all other verbs are used.

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

plz help diffrence between noun & preposition

Anonymous · Answer

good

Anonymous · Answer

Noun is a name of a person, place or thing. Ex: Name of a person as Rama, Laxmana, Roopa, Mahadevi etc.,
Verb is a doing word, it tells us that what noun is doing. Ex: Rama write a letter, In this sentence the word "write" tells us that What Rama is doing.

Anonymous · Answer

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Some examples:

NOUN VERB
CONtract conTRACT
PREsent preSENT

When there is a shift, the noun always has the stress on the first syllable and the verb on the last.

However, there are at least as many cases where there is no shift, and either both are on the first syllable (anchor, fracture, outlaw) or both on the second (cement, police, review). The only thing that doesn't happen is for a noun with the stress on the last syllable and the verb with the stress on the first.

Rules for English pronunciation are always fraught. It picks up words from many different sources and fractures them across a wide variety of dialects over the centuries. Even today, some words will vary from dictionary to dictionary; for example, research - Wiktionarythat the noun form can be stressed like the verb for, or not.

Sorry. Much about English is actually very simple (for example, its lack of case markers and gender), but its pronunciation and spelling are among the most difficult in the world.

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