English Grammar: Khan Academy.

Question 1

1) Explain what is Grammar ?

Answer 1

1) What Is Grammar ?
A set of conventions and rules that govern language.
Context - Dependent.
You already know so much Grammar.
Standard American English.,
Nouns:
1) Common: House, Canyon, Girl.
Everyday Things.

2) Proper Nouns: White House, Grand Canyon, Nino.
Captalization Specific Things, famous etc, someone specific.

3) Single Noun: 1. foot / cat / tooth, Person.

4) Plural Noun Regular: Cats.

Plural Noun Irregular: Feet, Teeth, People.

5) Concrete Noun: Apple
You can have with your senses.

6) Abstract Noun: Ideias, Emotions,
Things you can see with your senses.

7) Collective Nouns: Team in soccer, Baseball team.
Is A Group, Crowed,

8) Compound Nouns: Bookstore, dry-cleaning.
combination of two words with a - or with out

9) Countable Nouns:
Things you can count.

10) Uncountable Nouns:
all water in the world.

Question 2

2) Explain what are Nouns ?

Answer 2

2)The Noun:
Basically Anything.
1)People / Person.
2)Places / Country.
3)Things / Living being.
4)Ideias

This is Raul.
He is from Argentina.
He is a penguin.
Raul has big dreams.

Noun: Raul, Argentina, Penguin, Dreams.

Question 3

3) Explain Singular Nouns and Plural Nouns ?

Answer 3

Singular Nouns and Plural Nouns:
Singular Nouns = Single.
Plural Nouns = Plus/More.

Singular and Regular Plural.
Dog / Dogs.
Cat / Cats.
Dinosaur / Dinosaurs.
Whale / Whales.

Irregular Plural:
Leaf = Lea-ves.
Child = Child-ren.
Fungus = Fungi.
Mouse = Mice.
Sheep = Sheep.

One Elephant / Two Elephant-S. = Plural: +S.

Question 4

4) Explain what is IrRegular Plurals:

Answer 4

The Irregular Plural Part1:
Regular Plural:
Dog-S.
Plural comes from the latin Plus That Means More +
Singular = One Of A Thing.
One dog / Two dogs.

IrRegular Plural:
Leaf = Lea-Ves.
Loaf = Loa-Ves.
calf = Cal-Ves.

F = Ves.

Question 5

5) Explique The Irregular Plural, Part 2:

Answer 5

Explique The Irregular Plural, Part 2:

Regular Plural:
A regular plural noun is a noun that becomes plural by adding an “s” or “es” to the end of the word. For example, the singular noun “book” becomes the plural noun “books”.
Dogs.
Books.
Boxes.

Irregular plural nouns are nouns that do not become plural by adding “-s” or “-es”. For example, the plural of “man” is “men” and not “mans”.

Leaf = Lea-ves.
Child = Children
Ox = Oxen

Question 6

6) The Irregular Plural Part 3:

Answer 6

The Irregular Plural Part 3:
One Sheep, Two Sheep and etc…

Base Plural:
There Was one sheep on the hill.
There Were two sheep on the hill.

Sheep, Fish and Bison.

Regular Plural:
Dogs (S).
Whales (S).
Cats(S).

Individual:
Marty caught thirty fish.
Marta studied thirty fishes. (Individual Fishes).

Question 7

7)Explain Common and proper nouns ?

Answer 7

Common = General / Proper = Specific.
City / Chicago.
Frog / Kermit.
River / Nile.
Mountain / Kilimanjaro.

Proper Noun: Are Always Captalized.
Common Noun: Capitalized when they begin sentences.

Question 8

8) Explain Concrete and abstract nouns ?

Answer 8

Concrete Nouns:
Together / Grown
Physical.

Abstract Nouns:
Away / Drawn
Not Physical.

Abstract Nouns:
Sadness, Happiness, Freedom, Permission.

Concrete Nouns:
Dog, Ball, Cliff, Ice Cream.

Question 9

9) Explain Irregular Plural part 4 ? The Mutant Plurals ?

Answer 9

The Mutant Plurals:
Word / Singular / Plural.
1) Foot / Feet.
2) Woman / Women.
3) Man / Men.
4) Tooth / Teeth. =
5) Goose / Geese. = Ganso.(S).
6) Mouse / Mice. = Rato.(S).
7) Louse / Lice. = Piolho(S).

Question 10

10) Explain Irregular plural nouns | foreign plurals ?

Answer 10

Latim = Fungus / Cactus. / Fungi, Cacti.
Greek = Thesis / Criteria

Language / Change / Singular / Irregular Plural / Informal Regular Plural.
Latin / A > AE / LarvA / LarvAE / Larvas.
Latin / US > i / Fungus / Fungi / Fungunes.
Latin/ UM > A / Datum / Data.
Latin/ EX > ICES / Index / Indices/ Indexes.
Greek/ IS>ES / Thesis / Theses/ Thesises.
Greek/ ON>A/ Criterion/ Criteria.