English in Sinhala - KIDS' Edition -Episode 014 ( Nouns & Classification )

Amila S Kumarasinghe

Lesson - 014 | (Fourteenth Episode )

It is raining. / It is raining now. / It is raining at the moment. / It is raining heavily. / It is raining cats and dogs now.

RAIN RELATED WORDS

Synonyms for rain

• cloudburst,
• deluge,
• downfall,
• downpour,
• rainfall,
• rainstorm,
• storm,
• wet

Words Related to rain

• precipitation,
• shower
• thundershower,
• thunderstorm,
• weather

Near Antonyms for rain

• drizzle,
• mist,
• mizzle,
• scud,
• spit,
• sprinkle

WORD CLASSES ( PARTS OF SPEECH) ( Open Class - Nouns )

( Vocabulary Class )

01. NOUNS

The noun may either be singular or plural. A noun may be masculine, feminine, neuter, or common gender. Nouns are classified under a few categories. Mainly there are five classifications.

01. Proper Nouns

02. Common Nouns

03. Collective Nouns

04. Material Nouns

05. Abstract Nouns

* A noun must either be countable or uncountable.

* Nouns may also be concrete.

Remember that there is another category as Verbal Nouns such as Walking, Speaking, Reading, Running ....etc.

Collocations

RAIN

ADJ. driving, heavy, lashing, pouring, torrential | steady | fine, gentle, light, patchy The fine rain turned to mist in the early evening. The forecast is for wind and patchy rain. | warm | cold | constant, continuous, persistent | intermittent | overnight Overnight rain had freshened up the garden. | monsoon, tropical The monsoon rains started early this year. | autumn, spring, etc.

rain verb

ADV. hard, heavily | a little, slightly | incessantly, non-stop, solidly, steadily

VERB + RAIN begin to, start to | be going to |

PHRASES start/stop raining

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