Grammar Flashcards
The verb BE has three forms:
Am, is, are
What type of sentence is this?
I am a teacher
You are a student
He is in the lab
She is my sister
Affirmative sentence
What type of sentence is this?
She is not sad
They are not in the school
She is not here
are called that because the answers always start with Yes
or No
Yes/ No question
-It looks for information
according to the question word.
-In this kind of question you never answer
Yes or No, because they are asking for some
information. The answer is a statement with
the information according to the question
word
WH-question
We use THIS / THESE when the objects are near to the speaker
We use THAT / THOSE when the objects are far from the speakers.
Demonstratives
We use _________ when the objects are far from the speakers.
That/those
We use ________ when the objects are near to the speaker
This/these
What do you call these nouns?
boss - bosses
tax - taxes
bush - bushes
fly - flies
try - tries
curry – curries
cat - cats
face - faces
day – days
Plural Nouns
What do you call these nouns
knife - knives
life - lives
wife - wives
half - halves
wolf - wolves
loaf - loaves
potato - potatoes
tomato - tomatoes
volcano -
volcanoes
Irregular Plural Nouns
What do you call these adjectives?
I My
You Your
He His
She Her
It Its
We Our
They Their
Possessive adjectives
What do you call these prepositions?
In the house in a shop
In a room in a town
In a car in a garden
On a shelf on a wall
On a plate on the table
On a balcony on a door
Preposition of Place
is used to
describe activities that
happen now, that
means activities that
are develop in the
moment of speaking
Present continous
is used to show ability
Can
What are the lexical catergories?
Noun
Verb
Pronoun
Interjection
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Conjuction
The word that names a person, place, thing, an idea
Noun
Kinds of noun
common
proper
singular
plural
singular possessive
plural possessive
are names of any,
place, or thing and name of person.
Common nouns are not capitalized.
* The city
* A policeman
* That newspaper
Common nouns
are the name of a
special person, place, or thing. Proper
nouns are capitalized.
* Dallas
* Officer Walker
* New York Times
Proper nouns
A word that expresses action
or otherwise helps to make a
statement.
Verb
Every sentence must have
a
Verb
verbs express
mental or physical
action
Action verbs
make a statement by
connecting the subject
with a word that
describes or explains
it
Linking verbs
Kind of Verbs
Action and linking verbs
Links subject to noun or an adjective in
the predicate part of the sentence.
* Is, are, was ,were, am, been
* Smell, look, taste, remain, feel, appear,
sound, seem, become, grow, stand, turn
Linking verbs
is a word used in place of one or more nouns.
It may stand for a person, place, thing, or idea.
Pronoun
Types of pronouns
Personal
Indefinite
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Relative
Possessive
Reflexive
Reciprocal
What type of pronouns
I, me, mine
you, your, yours
she, her, hers,
it, its
we, us, our, ours
they, them, their,
theirs
myself
yourself
Personal
Type of pronoun
anybody
each
either
none
someone, one, etc
Indefinite
Type of pronoun
this
that
these
those
Demonstrative
Type of pronoun
who
whom
what
which
whose
Interrogative
Modifies or describes a
noun or pronoun
Adjectives
Modifies or describes
a verb, an adjective,
or another adverb
Adverb
Kind of adverbs
Interrogative adverbs
Kind of adverb that introduce questions
Interrogative adverb
introduces a noun or pronoun
or a phrase or clause functioning in the sentence
as a noun.
Preposition
The word or word group that the
preposition introduces is its
Object
RELATES A
NOUN OR
PRONOUN TO
ANOTHER
WORD IN THE
SENTENCE
Preposition
They received a postcard from Bobby telling
about his trip to Thailand.
What type of lexical category?
Preposition
is a word that joins words
or groups of words
conjuction
CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL
GROUPS OF WORDS
-AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET
-EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR
Conjunction
is an exclamatory word that expresses
emotion
interjection
