Unit 4 --- Verbs and Nouns

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Unit 4 – Verbs and Nouns: Irregular and Regular Verbs, Single and Compound Nouns and Verbs, Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns
There are 2 basic parts of speech which students must be able to identify at sight: 
Nouns and Verbs. (A more extensive list of parts of speech will be studied in another chapter.
Nouns can contain verbs but verbs cannot contain nouns. 
Everything anyone says or writes is either part of a noun or part of a verb or both.
2.1 – Nouns: Nouns refer to objects, concepts, people, places and things in general. Nouns can be single words, compound nouns or entire phrases. The two most important types of noun are the SUBJECT and the OBJECT. The SUBJECT comes first in natural sentence structure in English, then the verb, and last the OBJECT (or OBJECTS). Nouns can be singular or plural when countable. Nouns can also be uncountable. All students should understand and practice identifying parts of speech, first the subject and verb, then the objects.
2.2 – Verbs: Verbs refer to actions or existence. They can also be Auxiliary Verbs. Aside from Auxiliary Verbs (always Irregular), all verbs are either Regular or Irregular. Regular verbs end with “ed” in both Past and Past Participle. Irregular verbs end in many different ways and must be memorized. All students must memorize the irregular verbs list if they wish to have a normal conversation with anyone.
Examples: (subjects are purple, verbs are underlined, adverbs are normal and objects are yellow)
She is a great person to work with!
The new project looks very good.
They have taken this paragraph out of the contract.
The people you are expecting are here.
We went there on Wednesday.
The sales manager said he could help.
After the project was implemented, production rose 35%.
The film we saw last night was a classic from the sixties.
The file was what we had been looking for.
Once the equipment has been installed, they will give us a call.
Mr. Jones has worked here for many years.
We are still implementing the new control system.
This happens quite frequently.
This is where we had a problem yesterday.
Everything that was presented yesterday is in the report we´ve prepared.
The job was done correctly.
Later the next day, we decided to change the logo.
The client has requested a discount for a large order.