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- A. Nouns form the plural by adding the edding "s" Example: Cat /Cats Head / Heads
- B. When the noun has one of the following edings form the plural by adding "es" -S (Focus/ Focuses)-SS (Miss/ Misess)-SH (Fish/ Fishes)-CH (Stich/ Stitches)-X ( Fox / Foxes)
- C. If the noun ends in "y" After consonant occurs in plural termination "ies" Example: Battery / Batteries After vowel form the plural by adding "s" Example: Bay / Bays
- D. If the noun ends in a vowel "o" form the plural by adding "es" Example: Tomato / Tomatoes
- 2. ADJECTIVES: Are words that are attached directly to a noun specying or explaining something to him
- A. Subjective Adjetives: Express a personal opinio. Example: Beautiful, ugly, nice, lovely, friendly, elegant, useful.
- B. Objectives Adjectives: Defined objective properties of the noun. These in turn folllow thw following order, although it is some flexibility :
- -SIZE: Big, small, huge,great, medium.
- -GENERAL ASPECTS: Sporty, dirty,quiet,expensive, healthy, strong.
- -AGE: Old, adult, young, new.
- -FORM: Square, hexagonal, round, wide , narrow
- -PERSONALITY: Shy, ambitious, humble, arrogant.
- -COLOR: Blue, yellow, red.
- -MATERIAL: Plastic, wooden, metallic, woolen.
- -ORIGIN: Russian, Spanish, European.
- 3. ADVERBS: An adverd is a word that accompanies the verb to modify its meaning. And adverb can also modify adjectives, names or others adverbs.
- A. The general rule Tto form adverbs is to add the ending "ly" to an adjective, equal to completion in Castilian for "mente" Example: Easy - Easily Cheerful- Cheerfully
- B. Adjectives ending in "ic" termination "ic" with "ically" Is changed. Examples: Automatic- Automatically Tragic- Tragically
- C. Adjectives ending in "le" termination "le" with "ly" Is changed. Examples: Terrible- Terribly True- Truly
- D.Some adverbs do not end in "ly" Example: Hard Fast
- E. As we have seen, adjectives tell us something about a noun ( a person, a thing, a place). Adverbs on the other hand, tells us something about how to do an action. They can modify verbs, adjectives or the adverbs.
- Examples: -VERB: Miguel runs fast You speak loudly
- -ADVERBS: Hell runs really fast. You speak very loudly
- -ADJECTIVES: I am very happy She is really nice
- 4. PREPOSITIONS The preposition is a class of word what: syntactically liking words or phrases within a sentence is morphologically invariable ( has not gender or number or endings). Semantically indicating origin, source, destination, location, address.
- Example: Among,between, to, in, on, at, under, behind, after, before, over, with, without, towards, against, again, of, from, until, for, by, in front of, next to, near of, far from, inside, outside.
- 5. VERBS:The verb is a word, bimembre structure, indicating action. Example: Run, jump, think, draw, cut.
- A. REGULAR VERBS: termination in ed, d, ied in past. Example: Added, admired, danced
- B. IRREGULAR VERBS: Different forms in three times. Example: -PRESENT: Sing -PAST: Sang -PARTICIPLE: Sung
- 6. CONJUCTIONS: Is the class of word or set of propositions linking them phrases of words.
- Example: -TIME: She trembled as he spoke- MODE: Leave the room as you find it- COMPARATIVE EQUALITY: He is not so tall as you are-CONTRAST: Rich as he is, he is not happy-CAUSE: As you were not there I left a message
- 7. QUESTIONS WH: They range short and simple to long and grammaticaly complex.In all cases, questions that begin with wh-words without the complex what been.
- Example: -Where is Mexico? -When is the party? - Who is the president of the united States? - What do you want to eat? -Why are you leaving?
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