- •Plurals
- •Irregular plurals:
- •Countable and uncountable nouns
- •Much, many and a lot.
- •In the interrogative forms we use:
- •In the negative forms we use:
- •In the affirmative forms:
- •A little or a few, little or few
- •Definite and indefinite articles
- •Adjectives What are adjectives?
- •Adjectives versus adverbs
- •Comparatives and superlatives
- •Other noun modifiers
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- •Comparatives and Superlatives
- •Irregular comparatives and superlatives
- •Adverbs
- •1. Regular adverbs:
- •2. Exceptions:
- •3. Things to remember:
- •Position of Adverbs
- •1. Adverb of Manner
- •2. Adverbs of Place
- •3. Adverbs of Time
- •4. Adverbs of Frequency
- •Adverbs of Frequency
- •Cumulative and Coordinate Adjectives
- •Quantifiers
- •Numbers and Numerals Числа и числительные
- •Functions of numerals Функции числительных
- •Note: Примечание:
- •Numerals: BrE and AmE Числительные: BrE и AmE
- •Digits, figures, numerals, numbers Цифры, числительные, числа
- •Cardinal numerals Количественные числительные
- •Examples of spelling Примеры написания
- •Examples in sentences Примеры в предложениях
- •Note: Multiples of one hundred Примечание: Числа, кратные ста
- •Examples in sentences Примеры в предложениях
- •Difficult spellings Трудные случаи написания
- •Fractions Дроби
- •Examples of spelling Примеры написания
- •Examples of spelling and pronunciation Примеры написания и произношения
- •Examples in sentences Примеры в предложениях
- •Singular or plural verb Глагол в ед. Или мн. Числе
- •Hundred, thousand, million Сто, тысяча, миллион
- •Note: Billion and milliard Примечание: Billion и milliard
- •Pronouns
- •Subject Pronouns
- •Object Pronouns
- •Reflexive Pronouns
- •I look at myself in the mirror.
- •Possessive Adjectives
- •Demonstratives - This, that, these, those
- •Relative Pronouns What are relative pronouns?
- •Relative pronouns
- •The English Verb
- •Verbs in English
- •Inflections
- •Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
- •Intransitive verbs
- •Finite Verbs What is a finite verb?
- •Examples
- •What is a non-finite verb?
- •Examples
- •Auxiliary verbs What are auxiliary verbs?
- •List of auxiliary verbs
- •Auxiliary verb or full verb?
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- •Linking verbs What are linking verbs?
- •List of linking verbs
- •Linking verb?
- •Related material: Stative and Dynamic / Action Verbs
- •Causative Verbs
- •Contraction
- •Clipping
- •Blending What are blends?
- •Demonstratives - This, that, these, those What are demonstratives?
- •Demonstrative pronouns vs demonstrative adjectives
- •Use of demonstratives
- •H questions (Question Words) Types of questions
- •Question words
- •Asking questions
- •Tag Questions Definition
- •Examples Statements
- •Possessives
- •Quantifiers What are quantifiers?
- •The full infinitive
- •Gerund or Infinitive Some verbs can be followed by either an infinitive or a gerund:
- •Verbs that can be followed by a gerund (ex: doing)
- •Verbs that can be followed by an infinitive ( ex : to do)
- •Some and Any Use of some and any
- •Study the following tables:
- •The rules of some and many: some:
- •Exception:
- •Something, anything, somewhere, anywhere, someone ,anyone:
- •Form of the passive voice:
- •Examples of the passive voice:
- •Passive voice sentences with two Objects:
- •B. Reporting Questions
- •C. Reporting requests / commands
- •D. Other transformations
- •Main clauses connected with and/but
- •Parts of Speech Parts of Speech
- •A list of parts of speech
- •Examples of parts of speech
- •Subject What is a subject?
- •Agreement
- •Questions with there
- •Deictic or pronoun?
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- •Contracted forms
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Parts of Speech Parts of Speech
In grammar, a part of speech (also called lexical categories, grammatical categories or word classes) is a linguistic category of words. In English there are eight parts of speech.
A list of parts of speech
A list of parts of speech in English grammar include the following:
1. Verb
A verb is used to show an action or a state of being
go, write, exist, be
2. Noun
A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events, ideas and feelings. A noun functions as a subject or object of a verb and can be modified by an adjective.
John, lion, table, freedom, love ...
3. Adjective
Adjectives are used to describe or specify a noun or pronoun
good, beautiful, nice, my ...
4. Adverb
An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective and other adverbs.
completely, never, there ...
5. Pronoun
A pronoun is used in the place of a noun or phrase.
I, you, he, she, it ...
6. Preposition
Prepositions are used before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when, how and why
in, above, to, for, at ...
7. Conjunction
Conjunctions join clauses or sentences or words
and, but, when ...
8. Interjection
Interjections are used to show surprise or emotion.
oh!, Good Lord
Examples of parts of speech
Here are some examples of parts of speech:
My (adjective) friend (noun) speaks (verb) English (noun) fluently (adverb).
Oh! (interjection) I ( pronoun) went (verb) to (preposition) school (noun) and (conjunction) I ( pronoun) met (verb) Fred (noun).
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Subject What is a subject?
The subject is one of the main two parts of a sentence. According to traditional grammar, a sentence consists of two parts:
a subject,
a predicate which modifies the subject.
consider the following sentence:
Leila loves painting.
Leila is the subject and likes soccer acts as the predicate
The subject relates its constituent (a noun phrase) by means of the verb to any other elements present in the sentence (objects, complements and adverbials.)
Examples of subjects
Nurses are on strike. (subject with no determiners)
The big man hurt him. (a noun phrase introduced by a determiner)
Driving is what I like most. (Gerund)
To write poems is difficult. (Infinitive)
That he worked hard is a fact. (a clause)
I/you...like soccer. (subject pronouns)
It rains often here. (dummy subject)
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Dummy subject there
There used as a dummy subject
In English, the word there can be used as a pronoun, functioning as a dummy subject.
Examples:
There is hope.
There are some students.
There occurred a terrible accident.
There exist two major factors.
As in the examples above, there can be used with the verb to be in existential clauses, clauses that refer to the existence or presence of something. It can also be used with verbs like exist or occur.
It is noteworthy that the logical subject of the verbs mentioned above appears as a complement.
Hope is there.
Some students are there.
A terrible accident occurred there.
Two major factors exist there.