Thursday 7 July 2011

Grammar - Articles , Determiners , Verb

today,,i do learn a lot of of new things on grammar..so,,i don't prefer to have a story today on my blog as usual.. i wanna be a teacher today..let me tell you what things that i've learn today..

ARTICLE

'A', 'An' and 'The' are articles

article
example
A, an – indefinite, used before singular countable nouns
A guidlene, a speech, an expert, an honest speaker
The – definite, used before both singular and plural nouns, and before both countable and uncountable noun
The presenter, the audience, the sessions, the time, the Japanese yen, the money


DETERMINER

* used to measure uncountable nouns

Noun
Countable
Uncountable
Singular
Plural
Singular
Quantity words
One, every, each, another
Many, several, some, a few, a number of, a lot of
Much, more, some, a little, a lot of, all
Demonstrative
This, that
These, those
This, that


VERB

action word which show an action being done or already done


Action Verb
Regular
End in ‘-ed’mwhen the past participle form are used

Jog > jogged > jogged
Irregular
End in other ways that when the past tense and past participle foem are used

Buy > bought > bought
Transitive
Require an object in the sentence
She prepared dinner
Intransitive
Do not require an object in the sentence
He jogged along the track

Non-action Verb
Linking
Join a subject to the rest of a sentence
He tired after football match
‘Be’ verb
Can replace linking verbs, although its mean may change
-          Am, is, was, were, has been, had been
He was tired after football match
Auxiliary
Support and give meaning to the main verb
-          Can, could, will, would, shall, may, might, ought to, had better
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Other part of speech used as verb

Take the same word form as noun
Peel the apple you eat it


that is all for today..
the class ended with a game..
and one more important thing is,,Miss Zu is no longer angry..

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