5 Summary of Week 4

Over the last few weeks you’ve looked at nouns and verbs, the most fundamental parts of a language. These word classes allow us to talk about the world and the things in it, and allow us to communicate what action or processes are happening. Next week you’ll consider a different group of words, the adjectives. These work closely with nouns, and are used to describe things in more detail. Without them our language would be colourless and not very precise, and in many circumstances it wouldn’t be easy to make clear what we were talking about.

You are now halfway through the course. The Open University would really appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future improvement in our optional end-of-course survey [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , which you will also have an opportunity to complete at the end of Week 8. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others.

You can now go to Week 5.