R1 The Nuts and Bolts of Manx - Grammar, etc.
Like lots of languages, Manx is made up of ‘nouns’, ‘adjectives’, ‘verbs’ and other things which make quite a few people curl up and die on hearing them. Resist this tendency. You don’t have to know and use all these technical terms, but it does help to know what some of them mean. For instance, a ‘noun’ can be described as a ‘naming word’: it is a name for something. ‘Cat’, ‘book’, ‘women’, ‘language’ are all nouns.

‘Adjectives’ tell us what things are like. Some examples of adjectives: ‘big’, ‘little’, ‘wet’, ‘fair’, ‘red’.

In simple terms, ‘verbs’ are ‘doing words’ or ‘being words’, like ‘Make!’, ‘taking’, ‘said’, ‘got’, ‘was’, would be’.

It simplifies things if you can understand and use the terms ‘noun’, ‘adjective’ and ‘verb’. We’ll come across a few other terms, but these three are the most important.