Definition: Nouns make up the basic elements of the English language. Together with verbs‚ nouns form the basic components of nearly all sentences. Nouns are commonly defined as words that refer to persons‚ places‚ things‚ or ideas. The following examples show some types of nouns and how they are typically used in sentences. Persons: John f. Kennedy was president during the Cuban missile crisis. Places: Argentina is a country of wondrous beauty. Things: Football is a great sport. Plural
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Section One Parts of Speech AL Diagnostic Tests Nouns Lessons and Activities Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs CO PY R IG Review Activities Final Tests HT Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections ED 3 MA TE RI Diagnostic Tests 5 Name Date Period Score % DIAGNOSTIC TEST 1 PARTS OF SPEECH For each underlined word in the following sentences‚ identify and then write the part of speech on the line next to the number. Each part of speech is
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Describe how you would drill the past tense or another grammar point with a repetition drill. A repetition drill The teacher get the students to repeat the form in response to a given stimulus‚ quite often a gesture or facial expression. Start the exercise and introduce the form using the ‘back – chaining method’. The phrase is modeled‚ starting at the end and working your way forward e.g. ‘yesterday’ / ‘to town yesterday’ / ‘I went to town yesterday’. Students repeat each respective ‘chunk’
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Word classes and phrases There are eight word classes‚ or parts of speech‚ that are distinguished in English: nouns‚ determiners‚ pronouns‚ verbs‚ adjectives‚ adverbs‚ prepositions‚ and conjunctions. (Determiners‚ traditionally classified along with adjectives‚ have not always been regarded as a separate part of speech.) Interjections are another word class‚ but these are not described here as they do not form part of the clause and sentence structure of the language.[1] Nouns‚ verbs‚ adjectives
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Of Speech: Pronouns * PRONOUN: a word that replaces a noun without specifying a name. * He was tired. In this sentence‚ he is the pronoun‚ replacing the name of the person who was tired (Jack was tired) or some other identifier (The boy was tired). * ANTECEDENT: the word to which a pronoun refers. * Because Jack left in a hurry‚ he forgot his lunch. In this sentence‚ Jack is the antecedent and he is the pronoun. Types of pronoun * DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS: the words
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I forgot that the exam was today. Hey! Put that down! I heard one guy say to another guy‚ "He has a new car‚ eh?" I don’t know about you but‚ good lord‚ I think taxes are too high! Preposition A preposition links nouns‚ pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. A preposition usually indicates the temporal‚ spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence
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UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG Department of Languages and Literatures / English Autumn 2010 ENGLISH GRAMMAR (EN1A01 & EN1A04) Theoretical background‚ exercises and study questions by Andreas Nordin ENGLISH GRAMMAR (EN1A01 & EN1A04) Theoretical background‚ exercises and study questions This compendium accompanies the 3rd edition of Greenbaum & Nelson‚ An Introduction to English Grammar (Longman). The compendium provides additional theoretical discussions of certain topics of English grammar
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Determiner (a) + Pre-modifier (sixth) + Head (sense) + Post Modiefier (about her) | | Within her first month | Determiner (her) + Pre-modifier (first) + Head (month) | Table 1: Noun groups and their structures Three Pronouns | Pronouns | Types | | It was very hard | Personal Pronoun | | more than
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as follows: Noun (black equilateral triangle) Article (small blue equilateral triangle) Adjective (medium dark blue equilateral triangle) Verb (red circle) Preposition (green crescent) Adverb (small orange circle) Pronoun (purple isosceles triangle) Conjunction (small pink rectangle) Interjection (golden keyhole) NOUN FAMILY Noun - a large black equilateral triangle Impressionistic Lesson: Introduce
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description is similar to the procedures followed in conducting a scientific experiment. It describes definite steps in a necessary order. The misplacement of any action will cause confusion. In a process paragraph‚ uses of imperative sentences‚ the indefinite pronoun “you” and the present tense are common. 19.1 Transitions used in a process paragraph (描述过程的联接词) Transitions used in a process paragraph include listings words and words indicating time. The following table illustrates some listing words that
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