COMMUNICATION 1
Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place, person or group
to another. Every communication involves (at least) one sender, a message and a recipient.
This may sound simple, but communication is actually a very complex subject.
The transmission of the message from sender to recipient can be affected by a huge range of
things. These include our emotions, the cultural situation, the medium used to communicate,
and even our location.
Communication, n. The imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some
other medium. …The successful conveying or sharing of ideas and feelings.
Oxford English Dictionary
A communication therefore has three parts: the sender, the message, and the recipient.
The communication Process
Communication channel is the term given to the way in which we communicate. It is
therefore the method used to transmit our message to a recipient, or to receive a message
from someone else.
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PART OF SPEECH
A part of speech is a term used in traditional grammar for one of the nine main
categories into which words are classified according to their functions in sentences, such as
nouns or verbs. Also known as word classes, these are the building blocks of grammar.
Noun
Nouns are a person, place, or thing (or even an abstraction, such as an idea). They can take on
myriad roles in a sentence, from the subject of it all to the object of an action or any other
(literal) thing in between. They are capitalized when they're an official name of something or
someone. For example pirate, Caribbean, ship, freedom, Captain Jack Sparrow
Pronoun
Pronouns stand in for nouns in a sentence. Examples: I, you, he, she, it, ours, them, who,
which, anybody, ourselves
Verb
Verbs are what happen in a sentence. They're either action words or show the state of being
(is, was) of the subject of the sentence. They change form based on tense (present, past) and
the subject of the sentence (singular or plural). Examples: sing, dance, believe, seem, finish,
eat, drink, be, become
Adjective
Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns. They specify which one, how much, or what kind.
Examples: hot, lazy, funny, unique, bright, beautiful, poor, smooth
Adverb
Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or even other adverbs.
They specify when something happened, where, how, why, and how much. Examples: softly,
lazily, often, only, hopefully, softly, sometimes
Preposition
Prepositions show a relationship between a noun (or a pronoun) and the other words in a
sentence. They come at the start of a prepositional phrase. For example: up, over, against, by,
for, into, close to, out of, apart from
Conjunction
Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence. Examples: and, but, or, so, yet,
with
Articles and Determiners
Articles and determiners function like adjectives by modifying nouns, but they are different
than adjectives, in that they are necessary for a sentence to have proper syntax.
Examples: articles: a, an, the; determiners: these, that, those; enough, much, few; which, what
Interjection
Interjections are expressions that can stand on their own as complete sentences.
They are words that often carry emotion. Examples: ah, whoops, ouch, yabba dabba do!
PUNCTUATIONS
Punctuation is the traffic light for reading; it tells the reader when to pause, when to stop, and
how to proceed. There are 14 punctuation marks that are commonly used in English
grammar. They are the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon,
dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, quotation marks, and ellipsis.
Following their correct usage will make your writing easier to read and more appealing.
The Basic Signs of Punctuation
the comma ,
the full stop .
the exclamation mark !
the question mark ?
the semi-colon ;
the colon :
the apostrophe '
brackets ( ) or [ ]
the slash /
