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“English Grammar”


Grammar is the system of a languaje. We call ‘ grammar’ is simply a reflection of a a languaje at a particular time. When you understand grammar of a language, you can understand many things be yourself, without having to ask a teacher or look in a book.


Categories:

-Nouns: The simple definition is : a person, place or things.

For example :Person: man, woman , teacher
Place: home, office, parish
Thing: table, car, money, music, bird, tiger, love etc...

Note: The problem with this definition is that it does not explain why ‘love’ is a noun but can also be a verb.

Countable Uncountable
Dollar money
Song music
Battery Electricity

Countable Nouns:
Countable nouns are easy torecognize. Thy are things that we can count .
For example ‘pen’.We can count pens because we can have one, two, three or more pens.

Countable nouns can be singular or plural:
-My dog is playing.
-My dogs are hungry.

Note:
"People" is countable. "People" is the plural of "person". We can count people:
-There is one person here.
-There are three people here.


Uncontable Nouns:Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc...
For example, we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself.
-rice, sugar, butter, water, electricity, gas, power
Verbs : The verb is the king in English because the shortest sentence contains a verb. You can make a one-word sentence with a verb, for example: "Stop!".

A verb always hasa subject. (In the sentence "John speaks English", John is the subject and speaks is the verb.) In simple terms, therefore, we can say that verbs are words that tell us what a subject does or is; they describe:

action (Ram plays football.)
state (Anthony seems kind.)


There is something very special about verbs in English. Most other words (adjectives, adverbs, prepositions etc)don’t change in form (although nouns can have singular and plural forms). But almost all verbs change in form. For example, the verb to work has five forms:

to work, work, works, worked, working

Verb Transitive: A transitive verb has two characteristics. First, it is an action verb, expressing a doable activity like kick, want, paint, write, eat, clean, etc. Second, it must have a directobject, something or someone who receives the action of the verb.
Questions to Discovery intransitive verb: What.

For example:

-Sylvia kicked Juan under the table.

Kicked = transitive verb; Juan = direct object.

-Alicia wrote a love poem on a restaurant napkin.

Wrote = transitive verb; poem = direct object.

-In the spring, Damien will run his first marathon.Will run = transitive verb; marathon = direct object.


Verb Intransitive: An intransitive verb has two characteristics. First, it is an action verb, expressing a doable activity like arrive, go, lie, sneeze, sit, die, etc. Second, unlike a transitive verb, it will NOT have a direct object receiving the action.

Questions to discover intransitive verb :
Where, when and How.For example:

-Huffing and puffing, we arrived at the classroom door with only seven seconds to spare.

Arrived = intransitive verb.

-In the evenings, Glenda sits on the front porch to admire her immaculate lawn.

Sits = intransitive verb.
-Because of blood sugar problems, Rosa always eats before leaving for schoolEats = intransitive verb.


Adjetives: An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun, also
an adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (for example : a big dog)


Note: It is sometimes said that the adjective is the enemy of the noun. This is because, very often, if we use the precise noun we don't need an adjective.

For example,...