Lesson: THE ALPHABATS. WORD. SENTENCE
1. ALPHABET: Ordered set of letters of a language. Written sign for sound in speech. Written language is made up of letters which stand for sounds. The letters of any language are called its alphabets. A letter itself has no meaning but all the letters i.e., A to Z, are called alphabets. The English alphabets contain twenty-six letters.
2. LETTERS: In English, there are two types of alphabets,
capital letters and small letters. The letters “A, E, I, O, U” are called vowel
letters. Vowels are used to complete a word by adding more letters. Letters are
united to form words. Like boy, girl, pen, hand.
3. WORD: A set of two or more than two letters
is called a word.
(Like)”
come” is a word
4. SENTENCE: A group of words which conveys a
complete meaning or idea is called a sentence. Every new sentence beings with a
capital letter. It always contains a “finite verb” Sentence makes a complete
sense. For example ,
- I read a book.
- He is a man and she is a women.
- This is copy and that is a pen.
5. PHARASE: A phrase is a group of words that
makes sense but not complete sense. It has no “Finite verb”. Phrase itself has no
meanings. (Like) a pen, a dog a boy.
6. PARTS OF SENTENCE: Every sentence consists
of two parts: The subject (the meaning part) and the predicate (the starting
part).
(a) Subject: Subject of a sentence is a person
or thing, doing some action, or about something is told. There are some pronoun
are also use in sentences mentioned under here.
- First Person: The speaker: The person who speaks something.
- First person singular” I, my, me
- First person plural “we, our, us”
(b) Second person: The listener, who listens to
what a speaker says
- Second person singular: “you, your, you”
- Second person plural “you, your, you”
(c)
Third person: Who is not present and about whom
something is said
- Third person singular” he, she, it”
- Third person plural “They, their, the”
7.
PREDICATE:
The part of a sentence which tells something about the subject is called
predicate. (or) The word which says something about the subject.
8.
OBJECT:
It is word to which action of the subject passes on.
(a)
1st Person: I,my,we,me,our,us,mine.
(b)
2nd Person: You, your, yours.
(c) 3rd
Person: He,she,it,its,his,him,her,they,theur,them.