english grammar.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Quantifiers
Quantifiers are words that are used to state quantity or amount of something without the stating the actually number.
Quantifiers answer the questions ¨How many?¨ and ¨How much¨?
Examples:
Plural Countable: Many people going to the beach.
Where are my jeans?
Uncountable: The jelly is rich.
The studends are reading grammar books.
Plural Countable, Uncountable: Some books are of the teacher.
There are traffic all the time in the morning.
Singular Countable: The person is very friendly.
A green apple is good for fatigue.
The Pronoun
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. you use pronouns like ¨he,¨ ¨which,¨ ¨noone,¨ and ¨you¨ to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive.
A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. you use pronouns like ¨he,¨ ¨which,¨ ¨noone,¨ and ¨you¨ to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive.
Examples:
1- She has a very nice rabbit.
2- My mother prepared the food for Us.
3-This car is Ours.
4- I love My guitar.
5- Won the olimpics for Yourself.
ONE ------- Is formal.
One should be honored.
One should respect to the others.
DEMOSTRATIVE PRONOUNS.
Examples.
1- This is my sister Sara.
2-These boys.
3-That boy.
4- Those boys.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
Articles
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- What is an Article? Basically, an article is an adjective. Like adjectives, articles modify nouns.
- English he has two articles: THE and a/an is used to refer to specific or particular nouns; a/an is used to modify non-specific or non-particular nous. We call THE the definite article and a/an the indefinite article.
the = definite article.
a/an = indefinite article.
Remember:
Using a or an depends on the sounds that begins the next word.
- a + singular noun beginning with a consonant: a boy, a car, a bike, a zoo, a dog.
- a + singular noun beginning with a vowel: an elephant, an egg, an apple, an idiot.
- a + singular noun beginning with a consonant sound: a user ( sounds like ´yoo-zer´, i.e begins with a consonant ´´y´´ sound, so ´a´ is used); a university, a unicycle.
- an + nouns starting with silent ¨h¨: an hour.
- an + nouns starting with a pronounced ¨h¨: a horse.
Examples: - a broken egg.
- an unusual problem.
The definite article is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is specific or particular. The signals that the noun is definite, that it refers to a particular member of a group.
For Example:
The dog that bit me ran away. (Here, we´re talking about a specific dog, the dog that bit me)
The apple you ate was rotten.
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Genitive Case
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Type Example Genitive Case
Singular noun Dog Dog´s dinner.
Plural nouns Dogs Dogs´ dinner.
Singular noun ending S Chris Chris´ hat or Chri´s hat.
Plural nouns not ending S Men Men´s room.
Types of Nouns
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing or ide. Whatever exist,we assume, can be named and that name is a noun. A proper noun, which names a specific person, place or thing.
Proper: Most propers nouns, for example: New York, Coca Cola, Mary. Begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns are not usually preceded by articles or other determiners. Most proper nous are singular.
for example:
1- I had a dinner with Orlando tonight.
2- Andrès and I will go to Spain.
Concrete:
examples: 1- The Pizza is hot, but rich.
2- The blue Pen is new.
Abstract: your five senses cannot detect this group of nouns. You cannot see , hear, smell , tasted or feel.
for example:
- Honesty
- Courage
- Loyalty
- Love
- Hate
Collective: Are words used to define a group of objects.
examples: 1- An army of frogs.
2- A promise of barmen.
Compound: Acoumpoun noun is a noun that is made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns in English are formed by nouns modofied by other nouns or adjectives.
for example:
1- What a beutiful the Computer!
2- I love getting up at Sunrise.
Simple:
examples: 1- The scissors are my aunt.
2- The book has much information.
3- The cat is under the table.
4- The shoes are black.
Common: A common noun is a noun that refers to a person, thing and place.
Example: - The white phone is nice.
- The black dog is in the room.
Countable: A countable noun is a type of noun that can be:
- Precented in both the singular form and the plural form.
- Represented by a number, such as two cats, five books.
examples:
- The cat is big.
- The cats are big.
- There are four cats in the room.
Uncountable: Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts, that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot ´´count´´ them. For example we cannot count ´´milk´´.
Some more uncountable nouns:
- money, currency.
- rice, sugar, butter, water.
- music, art, love, happines.
Compound: Acoumpoun noun is a noun that is made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns in English are formed by nouns modofied by other nouns or adjectives.
for example:
1- What a beutiful the Computer!
2- I love getting up at Sunrise.
Simple:
examples: 1- The scissors are my aunt.
2- The book has much information.
3- The cat is under the table.
4- The shoes are black.
Common: A common noun is a noun that refers to a person, thing and place.
Example: - The white phone is nice.
- The black dog is in the room.
Countable: A countable noun is a type of noun that can be:
- Precented in both the singular form and the plural form.
- Represented by a number, such as two cats, five books.
examples:
- The cat is big.
- The cats are big.
- There are four cats in the room.
Uncountable: Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts, that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot ´´count´´ them. For example we cannot count ´´milk´´.
Some more uncountable nouns:
- money, currency.
- rice, sugar, butter, water.
- music, art, love, happines.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Example of Compound Complex sentence.
If Barack Obama is the nominee for the Democratic Party, he'll run against John McCain, but it won't be an easy contest to win.
independent cause: he'll run against John McCain
independent cause: it won't be an easy contest to win.
Dependent clause: If Barack Obama is the nominee for the Democratic Party
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