Adjectives What are they? In Spanish as well as in English‚ an adjective describes the person‚ things‚ etc. that a noun refers to. We use adjectives to say what a person is like or seems like Adjectives can give us information about: • Quality • Size • Age • Temperature • Shape • Colour • Origin An adjective can also describe the idea(s) contained in a whole group of words -Robert’s ideas about the future are absurd They can give general or precise information -What ’s the car like
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EnglishClub is a web site. I likeEnglishClub. Noun thing or person pen‚ dog‚ work‚ music‚ town‚ London‚ teacher‚ John This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. Adjective describes a noun a/an‚ the‚ 2‚ some‚ good‚ big‚ red‚ well‚ interesting I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I likebig dogs. Adverb describes a verb‚ adjective or adverb quickly‚ silently‚ well‚ badly‚ very‚ really My dog eats quickly. When he is veryhungry‚ he eats reallyquickly. Pronoun replaces a noun I‚ you‚ he‚ she‚ some Tara is
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which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb‚ among others. There are open word classes‚ which constantly acquire new members‚ and closed word classes‚ which acquire new members infrequently if at all. Almost all languages have the lexical categories noun and verb‚ but beyond these there are significant variations in different languages.[1] For example‚ Japanese has as many as three classes
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57-B Block‚ Burgos Street La Paz‚ Iloilo City September 10‚ 2013 Ana Manalastas‚ Manager The Toy Company 17-A Block‚ Jalandoni Street Jaro‚ Iloilo City 5000 Dear Madame: On August 30‚ 2013‚ my husband and I bought a remote controlled toy car worth 5000Php. It includes extra battery for the remote‚ a charger‚ and has a six month warranty. Last September 8‚ 2013‚ we noticed that the toy car’s battery is often drained. We tried to charge it but the charger was not working
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15. Polysyndeton is the use of a conjunction between each word‚ phrase‚ or clause‚ and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of polysyndeton‚ however‚ often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity‚ energetic enumeration‚ and building up. * They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked. Use polysyndeton to show an attempt to encompass something complex: * The water‚ like a witch’s oils‚ / Burnt green
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LANGUAGE FOCUS: THE VOCABULARY SHIFT A distinctive feature of academic writing style is choosing the more formal alternative when selecting a verb‚ noun‚ or other part of speech. Verbs English often has two (or more) choices to express an action or occurrence. The choice is often between a phrasal or prepositional verb (verb + preposition) and a single verb‚ the latter with Latinate origins. Often in lectures and other instances of everyday spoken English‚ the verb
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which treats of the parts of speech and their inflexion that is: the forms of number and case of nouns and pronouns‚ the forms of tense‚ mood‚ etc. of verbs‚ the forms of degrees of comparison of adjectives. (M. Ganshina and N. Vasilevskaya‚ 1954: 13). We distinguish between notional and structural parts of speech (V. L. Kaushanskaya and others‚ 1973: 13). The notional parts of speech are: the noun‚ the adjective‚ the pronoun‚ the numeral‚ the verb‚ the adverb‚ the words of the category of state
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next class. Questions 1-6 FINDING SUBJECTS AND VERBS On the answer sheet‚ for each of these sentences‚ write the main subject(s) in the first blank and the main verb(s) in the second blank. Careful – beware of prepositional phrases or dependent clauses that might lurk in between the real subject and verb to fool you. Also remember that verbs‚ sometimes‚ can have more than one word (called a verb phrase). EASIER TO FIND THE VERB FIRST THEN FIND THE DOER The end of the story was very unexpected
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ransposition of lexico-grammatical classes of nouns. Stylistic function of articles‚ genitive case‚ plural number. Stylistic functions of different grammatical categories in different parts of speech. 1) Stylistic transposition of pronouns. 2) Adjectives‚ stylistic function of degrees of comparison. 3) Stylistic functions of verbal categories. 4) Stylistic functions of adverbs. Style is less investigated on the morphological level than on any other one because very many scholars hold
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Some word classes are OPEN‚ that is‚ new words can be added to the class as the need arises. The class of nouns‚ for instance‚ is potentially infinite‚ since it is continually being expanded as new scientific discoveries are made‚ new products are developed‚ and new ideas are explored. In the late twentieth century‚ for example‚ developments in computer technology have given rise to many new nouns: Internet‚ website‚ URL‚ CD-ROM‚ email‚ newsgroup‚ bitmap‚ modem‚ multimedia New verbs have also been
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