Transcript English for us ones

English in use.
By mark
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Main types of grammar.
Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives
A noun by any other name!
Which of the following is a noun?
•Tall
Did you get the answer?
•Slow
Actually there were two:
•Time
Time, and Giraffe.
•Giraffe
Both are names of
things.
•Then
What types of nouns are there?
People have names
Me, I, Mark.
Things have names
Table, computer
Animals have names
George, Rhino
Places have names
England, London
Emotions have labels
Tired, happy
Things have categories and labels Cutlery, spoon
Senses
And sohave
on… descriptive words
Smell, delicious
How about verbs then?
Which of the following is a verb?
Goat
Which was it?
Tree
Again there were two to
choose.
Small
Gentle
Cooking, continuously.
Cooking
Read, to read something.
Read
Types of verb (to do words)
Basically, anything that has a process is a verb,
if you do it, it’s a verb, i.e. go, run, do ,make;
seeing, writing, playing… and so on.
How to add meaning, then?
To add meaning to the thing or process there are
other words you can use. These words expand our
understanding of something.
For example: instead of ‘the tree’, you could help
explain by adding extra words ‘the magnificent
tree’, or ‘the hallowed tree’, or even ‘the
dishevelled, forlorn tree!’
Another example: ‘Typing’ at the computer, could be
enhanced by ‘excitedly typing’, or even, ‘lethargically
and unevenly typing’.
Summary
We have looked at the following:
Review Quiz:
Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives
Which type of words are these:
You, big, friendly, beautiful, happy,
strong, kind, adventurous, confident,
apple, James, fruit, city, table,
computer, hot, ironically, steep,
tempestuous, gorgeous, scented,
stilted, run, Mary, be, look, find,
ungainly, modest, poor, quickly, happily,
understandably!
Review Quiz answers
Nouns:
You,
James,
apple,
fruit, city,
table,
computer,
Mary
Verbs:
Run,
be,
look,
find
Adverbs:
Adjectives:
Ironically,
Big, friendly,
understandably, beautiful, stilted,
happily, quickly gorgeous,
adventurous,
confident, scented,
ungainly, steep, hot,
kind, strong,
modest, poor,
happy, kind