miércoles, 9 de mayo de 2012

Review of tenses

Simple Present Tense: Expresses a habit of often repeated action. For example: I play everyday.

The Present Progressive: Describe an action that is occurring right now. For example: I am playing.

The Simple Past: Describe an event that occurred in the past. For example: I played.

The Past Progressive: Used to talked that was is progress at a time in the past. For example: I was playing.

The Present Perfect: An event that started in the past and continuous. For example: I have played.

The Present Perfect Progressive: Describes the duration of an action that began in the past and continuous in the present. For example: I have been playing.

The Past Perfect: Describes completed events that took part before other. For example: I had played.

The Past Perfect Progressive: Shows that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. For example: I had been playing.

Future Tense: Describes future actions. For example: I will play, I am going to play.

Future Progressive: Describes an event or action that will occur over a time at a specific time. For example: I will be playing.

Future Perfect: Expresses the idea that something will occur before another action in the future. It can also show that something will happen before a specific time in the future. For example: I will have played.

Future Perfect Progressive: Describes an action that has been in progress for a duration of time before another event or time in the future. For example: I will have been playing.

martes, 8 de mayo de 2012

The eight parts of speech

Noun: Names a person, place, thing or idea. There are four types of nouns:

- Common: table, place, chair, notebook, etc.
- Proper: Richiwi, Peru, Alex, Mexico, etc.
- Abstract: love, hate, charity, intelligence, etc.
- Concrete: hand, paper, bag, chocolate, etc.

Pronoun: A word used instead of a noun to indicate someone or something already mentioned or known. There types of pronouns:

- Personal pronouns: Small words that takes the place of a noun.

Singular
Plural
First Person
I, me, mine
we, us, our, ours
Second Person
you, your, yours
you, your, yours
Third Person
he, him, she, her, hers, it, its
they, them, their, theirs

- Reflexive pronouns: Refers to the subject and directs the action of the verb back to the subject.

First Person
myself, ourselves
Second Person
yourself, yourselves
Third Person
himself, herself, itself, themselves

- Demostrative pronouns: Points out a person, place, thing or idea.- Indefinite pronouns: Doesn't refer to specific noun. This, that, these, those.

  For example: My shoes are those.

- Indefinite pronouns: Doesn't refer to a specific noun. All, both, nobody, either, anyone, everything, some, few, none.

Adjective: Word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

For example:
1. Blue.
2. Red.
3. Good.
4. Bad.
5. Mysterious.
6. Hard.
7. Easy.
8. Excellent.
9. Different.
10. Educated.

Verb: Shows action in a sentence. The types of verb are:

- Linking verb: Links a noun or pronoun, with an adjective or another noun. For example: is, are, seem, become.

- Transitive verb: Action verb followed by a word or words that responds: what? or whom? For example: push, eat, give, play.

- Intransitive verb: Action verb which isn't followed by a word that responds the question: what? or whom? For example: arrive, go, lie, sit, die.

Adverb: A word that tells us more about a verb by making its meaning more specific. It modifies a verb, and adjective or an adverb also.

Where?
When?
How?
How often?
or
How long?
To what extent?
or
How much?

- Modifying a verb:           Finally the storm is ending.
                                        The storm finally is ending.

- Modifying an adjective:  The snow was quite heavy.
                                        Driving was very hazardous.

- Modifying an adverb:     It almost never snows this heavily.
                                        I hardly ever need to wear my boots.

Prepositions: Links nouns, pronouns, phrases to other words in a sentence. They tell where,when, and how something happens. Begin phrases that end with an object: noun or pronoun. That is called the object. For example: of, up, to, about, above, etc.

Conjunction: Word that joins words of groups or words.

- Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet.

- Correlative conjunctions: both... and, not only... but also, either... or, neither... nor.

Interjections: A word that expresses strong emotion. For example: hi, excuse me!, hooray!, etc.

In this presentation, you will be able to see the eight parts of speech as well.



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