Unit 1

Unit 1

1. Pronouns

   • Substitute for nouns in the sentence
     • Personal
     • Possessive
     • Demonstrative
     • Reflexive
     • Undefined "it"
     • Using "the"

2. Prepositions

   • Time
     • Specific time period
       • In
       • On
       • At
   • Place
     • They show the location of something
       • Above, after, behind, in front of, under, below, over, close to, by, etc.

3. Connectors

   • They make a sentence longer from two smaller ones
     • And
     • But
     • Or
     • Because
     • So

4. Comparisions

   • Comparatives
     • Describe the differences between 2 or more people or objects
       • One syllable adjectives: Add er to them
       • One syllable adjectives ending in e: add r
       • One-syllable adjectives with the consonant + vowel + consonant structure: The last consonant is doubled and er is added
       • Two-syllable adjectives ending in y: Change the y to i + er
       • Adjectives of two or more syllables: The more/less structure is added
   • Superlatives
     • Objectively or subjectively describe some insurmountable characteristic of some person or object
       • One-syllable adjectives: Add est
       • One-syllable adjectives ending in e: Add st
       • One-syllable adjectives with the consonant + vowel + consonant structure: The last consonant is doubled and this is added.
       • Adjectives with two syllables ending in y: y is changed to i + est
       • Adjectives of two or more syllables: The most/the least structure is added

5. Nouns

   • Countable
     • Can be used with the articles a/an
   • Uncountable
     • Cannot normally be used with the articles a/an

6. Adjectives

   • Adjectives describe nouns and are going to come in front of nouns, adjectives "modify" nouns

7. Frequency adverbs

   • Described how often an act is carried out, how often the action of the verb occurs
     • Always 100%
     • Usually 99-90%
     • Often 90-75%
     • Sometimes 75-25%
     • Seldom 25-10%
     • Rarely 10-1%
     • Never 0%

8. Determiners

   • Used to modify a noun and goes in front of it this helps to make clear what the noun is referring to
     • Common determiners
       • Quantifiers
         • a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, too, enought
       • Distributives
         • both, either, neither
       • Difference words
         • other, another

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