Unit 1 · NCERT Poorvi

The Day the
River Spoke

Every sentence is a little team — naming words, doing words, describing words. Tap the words below and watch each one show its job. Then read the full story in your Poorvi reader.

📖 3 topics⏱ ~22 min📝 12-question quiz

Play with it

Tag the parts of speech

Here's a practice sentence. Tap any word to find out what job it does — naming, doing, describing, joining or pointing.

Explore · Word-class taggertap a word

Learn

The three big ideas

English words are grouped into eight parts of speech by the job they do:

Noun — names (river, Riya, boat) · Pronoun — replaces a noun (she, it)
Verb — action/being (row, is) · Adjective — describes a noun (wide)
Adverb — describes a verb (slowly) · Preposition — position (across)
Conjunction — joins (and, but) · Interjection — feeling (Wow!)

Good readers do three things:

Find the main idea — what is this mostly about?
Pick out details — who, what, where, when.
Infer — read between the lines for what isn't said directly.

Read The Day the River Spoke in your NCERT Poorvi reader, then ask: what was the river trying to say, and how did people respond?

Every clear sentence has a subject (who/what) and a verb (the action). Adjectives and adverbs add detail.

Worked example. In "The river flowed swiftly", name the noun, the verb and the adverb.

Noun = river · Verb = flowed · Adverb = swiftly (it tells how the river flowed).

Common mistake: a word's part of speech isn't fixed. "Water" is a noun in "the water is cold" but a verb in "water the plants" — always check how it's used.

Where you'll meet it

Why grammar earns its keep

Clear writing

Knowing your nouns from your verbs lets you fix muddled sentences, punctuate correctly and score better in every written exam — not just English.

Learning any language

Parts of speech exist in Hindi, Sanskrit and every language. Spot them in English and you have a map for learning the next language faster.

The Day theRiver Spoke