Unit 1

Unit 1

• Distintas técnicas:
• El acento
• Tipos de palabras
• Contenido
• Función gramatical
• Sentence Stress (Sentence stress is the music of spoken English):
• Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat".
• Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence.
• Example: She bought a new car.

Sentences have two basic types of word:

• Content Words: keywords of a sentence, they keep the sense are important, as Nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
• Structure Words: not very important, they´re small-simple words, make the sentence correct grammatically, as prepositions, conjuctions: but- because- and, until, how, that, so, or, auxiliaries.
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The rhythm of the English language.

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• Kind of words:
• •Nouns.
• •Names.
• •Pronouns.
• •Adjectives.
• •Adverbs.
• •Verbs.
• •Prepositions.
• •Conjunctions.
• •Articles.

Nouns

• In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object , indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or modifier (name of: person, places, things, animals).
• Countable nouns: nouns that can be counted, nouns can be singular or plural and can be used with numbers and modifiers like a/an, the, some, any, a few, and many: Here is a cat / hera are a few cats / here are eight cats.
• Uncountable nouns: are impossible to count, they name intangible concepts, most of these nouns are singular: information, wealth, collections, milk, sand, air, Ex: They´d love to rent some property around here / Students don´t seen to have much homework these days.
• Nouns and the possessive case: The possessive case shows the relationship of a noun to other words in a sentence, by adding an apostrophe and the letter s: The cat´s toy was missing / Csey´s sister is a geologist.

Nouns

• Nouns as subjects: Every sentence must have a subject, and that subject will always be a noun or pronoun. Ex: mMaria played the piece beautifully.
• Nouns as objects: can be objects of a transitive verb in a sentence. An object can be either a direct object (a noun that receives the action described by the verb) or an indirect object (a noun that receives direct object).
• •Ex: Cleo passed the salt. / Ex: Cleo passed Otto the salt.
• Nouns as subject complements: A subject complement normally follows a linking verb such as be, become, or seem and gives more information about the subject. Ex: Mary is a teacher.
• Nouns as object complements: It provides more information about the direct object, with a transitive verb.
• Ex: : I now pronounce you husbands.

still nouns

Adjetives:

Adverbs

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• Verbs
• Base verb:
• Regular verb:
• Irregular verb:
• Transitive verb: the verb that requires an object to complete its meaning, e.g. bring, buy, call.
• Intransitive verb: the verb that does not require an object to complete its meaning, e.g. sleep, swim, die.

Prepositions

• Prepositions
• are short words (on, in, to) that usually stand in front of nouns (sometimes also in front of gerund verbs).
• There are hardly any rules as to when to use which preposition
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Conjuctions

• Conjunctions are used to combine two or more objects, phrases or clauses.
• •Coordinating conjunctions: to combine two independent clauses. Ex: for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so.
• •Subordinating conjunctions: to combine an independent clause and a dependent clause. Ex: if, although, though, after, before, because, as if, unless, until, when, while, etc.
• •Correlative conjunctions: to combine two parts of the sentence which have equal importance, Ex: not only…but also, either…or, neither…nor, whether…or, rather…or, if…then, etc.
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