PowerPoint Presentation PART OF SPEECH & WORD FORMS 8 PARTS OF SPEECH Verbs Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections Verbs Meaning Types Forms 1 Meaning Ex[.]
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&
WORD FORMS
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Types
Forms
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Express action action verb
clean, study, eat, etc
Express state of being state verb live, become, feel, etc
Note:
action verb + adverb
She sings well
state verb + adjective
He feels tired
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Require an object transitive verb
She buys a book.
Stand without an object
intransitive verb
She lives in an apartment.
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Tense form for main verbs
She buys a book (present simple)
She bought a book (past simple)
Other forms: infinitive (To-V), bare form (V), -ing form (V-ing), past
participle (V-ed/3)
She helps me do the exercise.
It is not easy to pass the exam.
We do not prefer items made in China.
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Nouns often come after a determiner (a determiner is a word like a, an, the, this, my, such):
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this difficult word
my brown and white house
such crass stupidity
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Nouns have certain functions in a
sentence, for example:
subject of verb: Doctors work hard.
object of verb: He likes coffee.
subject and object of verb: Teachers teach students.
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phrase
E.g.: I like playing football.
Subject: I (pronoun)
Object: Playing football (gerund phrase)
The color of your bag is so ugly.
Subject: The color of your bag (noun phrase)
“Color” is the central noun of this noun phrase
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Pronouns have all functions of nouns.
Subject pronouns: I, you, we, they,
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to him, this problem is mine
SP
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Position
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Rely + -able reliable = can be relied on or trusted Comprehension + -ible comprehensible
= can be comprehended or understood
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opposite meaning by adding the prefix
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The suffix -ful often means ‘full of + the
meaning of the adjective
careful = full of care
painful = hurt a lot
The suffix -less means ‘without’ + the
meaning of the adjective
if you are careless, you do something ‘without
care’
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2.1 Adjectives before nouns
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2.2 Adjectives after stative verbs: be, seem, appear, look, sound, smell, taste, feel, get, become, stay, remain, keep, grow, go, turn
The policemen became angry.
The soup looked, smelt and tasted good .
Adjectives only after stative verbs
adjectives begin with
a-awake, afloat, asleep, alive
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2.4 Adjective phrase after Noun
We are recruiting students capable of
achieving first-class degrees.
All bags more expensive than this one are put over there.
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Participles are placed after the nouns
which they define.
The shoes made in Italy are very fashionable.
I don’t like the man talking to Sam.
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2.5 Adjectives after most measurement
nouns
The fence around the estate was three
metres high, thirty-five kilometres long and one hundred and twenty years old.
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2.6 Adjectives after some-, any- and no- words
This place doesn’t look very promising, but let’s try and find somewhere nice for dinner.
I couldn’t find anything interesting on the television so I had an early night.
There’s somebody outside who wants to speak
to you Shall I let him in?
Nobody present at the meeting was able to offer me any useful advice.
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Trang 321 Adverb of Manner
Adj + -ly
slowly, carefully, happily
These adverbs are put behind the direct object (or behind the verb if there's no direct object).
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here, there, behind, above
Like adverbs of manner, these adverbs are put behind the direct object or the verb
subject verb(s) direct
object adverb
I didn't see him here.
He stayed behind.
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recently, now, then, yesterday
Adverbs of time are usually put at the
end of the sentence or at the beginning
of the sentence
subject verb(s) indirect
object
direct object time
I will tell you the story tomorrow
.
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never, sometimes, seldom, often,
usually, always
Adverbs of frequency are put directly
before the main verb If 'be' is the main verb and there is no auxiliary verb,
adverbs of frequency are put behind
'be' If there is an auxiliary verb, adverbs
of frequency are put before 'be'
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subject
auxiliary
/ Be
adverb main verb object, place or time
swimming
in the evenings.
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certainly - definitely - maybe - possibly clearly - obviously - perhaps - probably
maybe and perhaps usually come at
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Other adverbs of possibility usually
come in front of the main verb:
He is certainly coming to the party.
Will they definitely be there?
We will possibly come to England next
year
but in after am, is, are, was, were:
She was obviously very surprised.
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hardly, scarcely, completely, very, extremely.
Adverbs of degree are usually placed:
before the adjective or adverb they are
modifying:
e.g The water was extremely cold.
before the main verb:
e.g He was just leaving She has almost
finished.