A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, orquality.

Examples:

PERSON: a girl, a driver, Kevin

PLACE: a park, a city, Boston

THING: tennis balls, milk, a Toyota

QUALITY: friendship, joy, conficence

What questions does a noun answer?

Who or what.

Proper and common

P: Princess Diana, Los Angeles, Friday, a Toyota

C: a princess, a city, a day, a product

Concrete (perceive with senses) and abstract

(emotions, ideas, qualities)

C: sunset, cars, cologne, doughnuts, breeze

A: patience, childhood, justice, humor, success

Count and non countable

C: assignment, fact, machine

N-C: homework, information, machinery

Identify the nouns in bold as

CONCRETE, ABSTRACT, COUNTABLE,

NON-COUNTABLE nouns.

Write the answers on your notebook.

Verbs shows actions or being (existence). A verb is the heart of any English sentence.Examples:

Action: run, eat, prepare, destroy, ask, love

Being: be (am, is, are, was, were)

What question does a verb answer?

What does/did [subject] do?

Verbs have four principal parts: base form, past, past principle, and present participle.

Verbs can be regular and irregular.

Regular Their past and past participle forms use the suffix -ed.

Examples:

Work– worked Rob- robbed Flash- flashed

Copy-copied Pull- pulled Seem-seemed

Irregular They use a variety of forms, including suffixes –en, -ne

as well as internal vowels changes or not.

Examples:

Take-took-taken Go-went-gone Sing- sang- sung

Cut-cut-cut Fall-felt-fallen

Transitive They have an object for their action. (Who? and What?)

Example:

Love Kill Make Furnish (supply)

Persuade Sense Put Hit

I like the bookI didn´t eat a big breakfast in the restaurant.

Intransitive They NEVER have an object for their action. Not done by

someone or something. They only involves a subject.

Example:

Die Arrive Occur

Thrive (grow) Happen Travel

Every single person voted.He dissapeared after the birthday party.The little girl sat quietly on the chair.

Some verbs can be transitive and intransitive. Read Move Study Watch

Operate Run Agree Sit

Examples:

Mel walks for miles.

Mel walks the dog for miles

The apes played in the woods.

The apes played hide and seek in the woods.

Use your dictionary to know

if verbs are tr. or intr.

Tell if the verbs are transitive or intransitive. Mention objects

if the option is transitive.

Present tense verbs tell us what is happening now or talks about routines. Frogs croak loudly at night.

Past tense verbs tell us what has alreadyhappened. The frog croaked loudly last night.

Future tense verbs tell us what will or mighthappen. The frogs will croak loudly tomorrow night.

Auxiliary verbs are helper verbs. That burglar alarm has been ringing for 10 minutes. I

will call the police.

Auxiliary or helping verbs.

Do

How many cups of sugar does the recipe call for?

Have

The cost of living has been rising sharply.

Modals

You can do anything if you try.

How will you get from the airport to lyour apartment?

Shall we sit here for a while?

A pronoun is a word that can replace, or substitute for, a noun.

Who? or What?

Example:

Oregon is on the western coast of the United States. It is in the Pacific Time Zone.

They can be:

Object pronouns (me, you, him, her, it, us, them)

Relative pronouns (who, that, which, whom)

Indefinite pronouns (anyone, anything, anybody, someone, something, somebody, no one, nobody)

Reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, themselves, ourselves, yourselves)

Demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those)

Possessive pronouns(mine, yours, hers, his, its, theirs, ours)

Reciprocal pronouns(each other, another)

________ want to eat now. (Daniel and Fabián)

Can Marie see ________ , too? (Jack)

Dr. Smith is a profesor ______ we like the most.

The flight arrived late, _________ caused us

many problems.

Complete the

sentences using the

best pronoun.

Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns.

EXAMPLES:

Good tallest slow problematic

Green national expensive adorable

What questions does an adjective answers?

Which? The green book is mine.

How many? There are six children in her family.

How much? No one received any mail today.

What kind? Raw milk can be dangerous.

More than one adjective to describe a noun havea special order:

# one, ten, thousands

Opininon fantastic, expensive, awful

Size big, long, small

Age elder, ancient, young

Shape round, flat, square

Color scarlet, purple, dark blue

Origin Japanese, Colombian, German

Material wooden, golden, plastic

Purpose rocking, camping, sun

Noun

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, and adjective, or another adverb.

They can be classified as:

Manner: tells us how something is done or happens.

Ex: slowly, quietly, badly, happily, well, hard, fast

Place: tells us where something is done or happens.

Ex: on the island, there, outside, below, under, upstairs

Frequency: tells us how often something is done or happens.

Ex: every day, often, rarely, twice

Time: tells us when something is done or happens.

Ex: before, now, fist, early, immediately, last month, soon, then, yesterday

Degree: tells us the level or extent that

something is done or happens.

Ex: almost, hardly, extremely, very

A conjunctoion is a word that connects parts

of a sentence together. They are…

linking words:

I see a cat and a dog.

Phrases:

The cat might be on the bed or under the sofa.

Clauses:

The cat couldn´t walk because it had a broken

leg.

Common conjunctions include:

Coordinating: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet

Subordintating: after, although, before, because,

even if, if, now, that, since, though, unless,

until, when, while

Correlative: both…, and…, either… or …, not only

…but also…