THE 8 PARTS OF SPEECH 1. Noun- something you can see‚ touch‚ taste‚ hears‚ smell‚ or have. Perform actions‚ complete actions or be the objects of actions. A noun that performs an action is called a subject. EX.) John ran. Nouns that complete actions or have actions done to them are called objects. EX.) John visited Grandma. John gave Grandma a pie. Objects or prepositions are nouns that follow prepositions. EX.) John dropped the pie on the floor. On is the preposition and floor is the object
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aspect) (sees) Perfect (has seen) Pregressive (is seeing) Perfect progressive (has been seeing) Voice Active (sees) Passive (is seen) Modality Unmarked (sees) With modal verb (will/can/might see) Negation Positive (sees) Negative (doesn´t see) Finite clause type (also called “mood”) Declarative (you saw) Interrogative (did you see?) Imperative/subjunctive (see) Chapter six concentrates on the first four kinds of variation in the verb phrase: tense‚ aspect‚ voice and modality. These structures can be
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UNITY OF THOUGHT •A sentence has unity if it expresses only one main idea. SENTENCE UNITY HOW TO ACHIEVESENT ENCE UNITY? Consistent Use of Tenses • A verb in an adverbial clause generally agrees with the tense of the verb in the main clause. • Avoid unnecessary shifting from first person to third person or vice versa Consistent use of Number • Shifting persons of pronouns will destroy unity. The pronouns must agree with their antecedents Consistent Use of Persons of pronouns • Do
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Origin: a Swiss watch It has neither number‚ nor case‚ nor gender distinctions. Some adjectives have degrees of comparison. Adverbs in English can modify verbs‚ adjectives (including numbers)‚ clauses‚ sentences and other adverbs. Adverbs typically answer questions such as how? ‚ in what way? ‚ when? ‚ where? ‚ and to what extent?. Some words can be both adverbs and adjectives as follow: far‚ hard‚ and long. It is important to distinguish
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the difficulties‚ my English teacher made some plans or measures to help us‚ such as more than three English diaries should be handed in every week and in every every composition we should use these sentence patterns: attributive clauses‚ noun clauses and adverbial clauses‚ which we called “Advanced Sentences”. As a result‚ we spent a large amount of time in studying how to use the “Advanced Sentences” as much as possible in our composition. Obviously‚ the practice like this made few effects‚ especially
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JORDAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE A constituent college of st. of Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) FACULTY OF EDUCATION P.O BOX 1878‚ Morogoro-Tanzania. COURSE; ENGLISH STRUCTURE CODE; LL 214 DEPARTMENT; ENGLISH SUBMITTED BY; GERALD‚ RICHARD REGISTRATION NUMBER; 2011/ 0237 SUBMITTED TO; MADAM MARY JIBREA TASK: THE RELEVANCES OF ENGLISH SRUCTURE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Structure of English We can study the English structure to relate to the English
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Grammar: Section 2 in writers handbook: A sentence is an independent clause A sentence has a subject and a predicate Ex: The in the classroom found grammar lessons extremely tedious Types of sentences: Declarative: makes a statement → tigers are dangerous Interrogative: asks a question → Are tigers really dangerous? Imperative: gives a command → Be careful when you tickle tigers! Exclamatory: expresses a strong feeling → I love tickling tigers! Basic Sentence Patterns: Subject + Verb
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separate syntagm if it is emphasized. e.g. Mary is John’s sister. 2. Homogeneous predicates or other members of the sentence. e.g. John came \but he didn’t stay long. The teacher spoke of our country \and its development program. 3. An adverbial parenthetical phrase at the beginning of the sentence. e.g. A few minutes later \we heard a ring at the door. To tell you the truth he’s never late. BUT He’s never late‚ to tell you the truth. Note: In slow speech participial‚ gerundial‚ infinitive
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basically made up of a series of prepositional phrases that can be found in his descriptive and narrative passages. There is also use of interrupters as in‚ "One evening during the supreme madness of..." What also can be found is some adverbial clauses and some other adverbial segments. 12)Are the words and structures commonly anticipated or freshly different? Poe writes in a manner that is freshly different. He likes to build importance and emphasis‚ and explanation on certain aspects
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English Grammar in Conversation Geoffrey Leech DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LANCASTER UNIVERSITY‚ LANCASTER LA1 4YT‚ UK A thorough description of spoken English grammar is felt to be overdue. After all‚ spoken language has largely been neglected by grammatical tradition; the word grammar itself descends from the classical Greek word for writing. The grammarian ’s bias towards the written language remains strong today‚ and is reflected in such terminology as ’left
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