Unit 1 Education and Humanity
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle
Grammar (Page 9)
Word classes
A. Word class refers to the category of words of similar form or function. Another name of word class is a parts of speech. In the text below, certain words are underlined. While you read, try to identify which word class they belong to.
Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. These nationwide closures are impacting over 60% of the world’s student population. Some 1 billion students and youth across the planet are affected by school and university closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Several other countries have implemented localized closures impacting millions of additional learners. UNESCO is supporting countries in their efforts to mitigate the immediate impact of school closures, particularly for more vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, and to facilitate the continuity of education for all through remote learning.
The Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO seeks to facilitate inclusive learning opportunities for children and youth during this period of sudden and unprecedented educational disruption. Investment in remote learning should both mitigate the immediate disruption caused by COVID-19 and establish approaches to develop more open and flexible education systems for the future. The Global Coalition members and prospective members are encouraged to pledge for the protection of learners’ personal information, privacy and security.
In the text, the underlined words belong to different word classes or parts of speech.
governments - noun
temporarily - adverb
affected - verb
and - conjunction
in - preposition
immediate - adjective
the - determiner
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B. Classify the underlined words into different word classes.
a. The man who is wearing glasses is my uncle’s friend.
b. I bought a round table in the supermarket.
c. Alas, she is dead.
d. Hari works very hard all the time but his wife is very lazy.
e. I have never been to Japan.
Answer:
a. who - connectives wearing - verb my - determiner
b. round - adjective the - determiner
c. Alas - interjection is - verb
d. hard - adverb but - connective wife - noun
e. never - adverb to - preposition
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C. Read a paragraph of an English newspaper and make a list of about 20 words. Categorize them into different ‘Word classes’. You can refer to the grammar book for help.
badly - adverbs car - noun
near - preposition which - pronoun
ouch - interjection dead - verb
down - preposition quickly - adverb
that - pronoun town - noun
Kathmandu - noun injured - verb
were - verb and - conjunction
the - determiner but - conjunction
Unit - 2 POSITION OF ADVERBS CLICK HERE.
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