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Topic: nouns |
Summary: The nouns are words to describe people, animals, places and things. They divide in two parts, common and proper. Common nouns: for people: like father, mother, uncle, teacher, student, etc... for animals: like eagle,dog,shark,snake, deer... etc for places: like beach, hill, backery, city, airport, house,... etc. and for things: like basket, computer, power, book, bed, etc... Something more about this topic… The study of nouns is based in three aspects: form function and signify. And we can classify in individual and collective… more information: |
Apprenticeship: The common nouns can help to we, describe something, somebody, that we want put in to the sentence. And well now after of 13 years I know the mean of nouns, and I´m proud because I learned this in my English subject… ha ha ha. |
Topic: proper nouns |
Summary: They are words to describe specific people, places and things. They always begin with a capital letter. Example: Omar, Ali Baba, Santa Claus, Harry Potter,etc... The name of countries and the people of this countries also in to in this list. Mexican, American, Egyptian, etc… The name of towns, cities, building, oceans, rivers, lakes and mountains also are proper nouns for places. Lake Michigan, the Alps, the Himalayas, the Great Wall of China, etc... The name of days week, the name of festivals dates, the name of months, are proper nouns for things. Valentine´s day, Father´s day, Mother´s day, Labor day, etc... Something more about this topic… A proper noun has two features. 1)it will name a specific (usually one-of-a-kind) item, and 2)it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence. We don´t use “the” with names of people. We normally use “the” for county names that include “states”, ”kingdom”, “republic” etc…More information: |
Apprenticeship: Different of common nouns, the proper nouns all begin with a capital letter, and serve to describe specific people, places and thing. With exception of animals, that are the are discarded from this list. |
Topic: sungular nouns |
They are words that we use when we talk about only one person, places, animal or thing. Something more about this topic… When a noun means one only, it is said to be singular. Examples: boy, girl, book, church, box… More information in… |
Apprenticeship: Like in the Spanish, we use the singular noun in our life, always we talk about somebody, something, but that be only one, we are using a singular noun. |
Topic: plural nouns |
They are words that we use when we talk about two or more person, places, animal or thing. We can recognize because finish whit “s”, “es”, “ies”, “ves”. But the irregular nouns don´t follow a common rule. An example is: child – children or man – men Something more about this topic… When a noun means more than one, it is said to be plural. The plural nouns is usually formed adding - s- to a singular noun :lamp-lamps Nuns ending in s,z,x,sh,ch, form the plural by adding –es: moss-mosses More information in… |
Apprenticeship: Like in the Spanish, we use the singular noun in our life, always we talk about somebody, something, but that be more that one, we are using a singular noun. |
HERE STAR THE SECOND UNITY:
Topic: pronouns | ||||||||||||
They are word that substitute common and proper nouns. Personal pronouns: The first person --------J is who talks The second person-----J is who listens The third person--------J what we talk about We must to learn that exit two types so important, they are SINGULAR AND PLURAL
An example of this is the next sentence. The pronoun “I” does reference to the name “Carlos” | ||||||||||||
Apprenticeship: Now we know that exist words that can substitute a common a proper noun, that´s good because sometimes we need space and time of writing. And the personal pronouns can be singular or plural. |
Topic: subject | ||||||||||||||||||
The subject of a sentence is the person, place, animal or thing that does the action shown by the verb. On the contrary, the object pronoun is where fell down the action, like shown the next list.
And well, how the objects also are nouns they can be: persons, places, things or animals. | ||||||||||||||||||
Apprenticeship: The object of a sentence is the person, place, thing or animal that receives the action shown by the verb. |
Topic: reflexive pronouns | ||||||||
Those words have two functions: REFLEXIVE or EMPHASIZING a sentence, and only have a meaning when we use them to do a reflexive sentence, on the contrary when we use to emphasizing sentence they only affirm what we are saying, but haven´t meaning as such. | ||||||||
Apprenticeship: We must take care with the use of those words, all depend what we want to write and what we want to do, reflexive or emphasizing. |
Topic: posessive pronouns |
Those words like the objects also set after of the verb. They serve to indicate that something concern to somebody or something. Those words are: · mine · yours · his · hers · its · ours · yours · theirs For example: you can take mine and give me yours. |
Apprenticeship: The possessive pronouns serve to indicate possession something over. |
Topic: demostrative pronouns | |||||||||
Those words always set before of the verb. Sometimes is a customary to confuse his function of demonstrative pronoun with his function of adjective. For example: This marker is blue.---------J function of adjective This is blue.-------------------J function of demonstrative pronoun They exist in two forms and for two circumstances
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Apprenticeship: A demonstrative pronoun have a function of show who refer the verb, although sometimes we customary to change his function with an adjective. |
Topic: interrogative pronouns |
They are the principal words that serve to ask a question, and they are the next: Who-------L people What------Lthings Where----Lplaces When-----Ltime Why-------Lreasons Examples: Who rang the bell? A= someone rang the bell Where are our friends studying? A= Our friends are studying somewhere ****when I ask for a subject I don´t use auxiliary, when I don´t ask for a subject I use auxiliary. When I ask for a object I use the auxiliary. |
Apprenticeship: Is very easy to make a question, but we must to know the word’s order besides when we must to use an auxiliary, and when not. |
Topic: adjectives |
An adjective is a word that serves to describe a noun. The adjectives can set before or after of the noun: *the intelligent students will get a lot in English. *the students are intelligent and they will get a lot English. And they can describe: 1.- qualities--------------------------à a cold drink 2.- origin-----------------------------à the Mexican people 3.- color------------------------------à the blue sky 4.-size--------------------------------à the big mountain 5.-number--------------------------à two princes… some houses. |
Apprenticeship: The adjectives serve to describe how, where from, what color, what size and how much, we have of something, all those characteristics that may have something. |
WELCOME TO THE THIRD UNITY...
Topic: main idea |
The main idea is a reading method. It consist in find the main idea of a text. The main idea is that express in a little paragraph what want to say the all text. Generally the main idea is situated in the upper part and the start of the text, but exist exceptions. |
Apprenticeship: The main idea is a general vision about the content of the text, so the reader can to know about what is the text without must to read all text. |
Topic: scanning |
Like his name say, scanning consist in scan the text, this is give it a fast reading starting in the upper part following to the end of the text. In this reading method, the reader find the key words and build, with this words a summary about the content of the text. Once that reader to have the summary can to know what want to say the text. |
Apprenticeship: Scanning is a fast scan of the text, finding the key words and making ourselves summary to know what about the text is. |
Topic: skimming |
Skimming It is the action of remove the cream of the milk. It apply to reading method, it is that let to the reader to reduce the number of words, without affect the understanding of the text. It is about get all ideas of the text and they shouldn´t be precisely the main ideas. |
Apprenticeship: Skimming help us to remove all this adornment that have the text. The reader takes the important ideas, but EYE WITH THIS: this ideas shouldn’t be the main ideas. |
AND FINALLY THIS IS OUR LAST NOTES...
Topic: passive voice | ||||||||||||||||
Passive voice is that we use to read a text; it is not common to use to speak. Is so important remember that to change a text to passive voice, the verbs always it pass to participle past.
We must to identify three elements in a sentence, the subject the verb and the object. Having this three elements we´ll change a sentence from active voice to passive voice. If we haven´t the object it is impossible to change the sentence to passive voice. To difference, from passive voice we can to change to active voice without the object. | ||||||||||||||||
Apprenticeship: Passive voice is something we use to read a text, is unusual use this type voice to speak, it is only used to read or write a text. |
