Grammar for Teachers Andrea DeCapua Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Author Andrea DeCapua‚ Ed.D. College of New Rochelle New Rochelle‚ NY 10805 adecapua@cnr.edu ISBN: 978-0-387-76331-6 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-76332-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937636 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the
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1. THE GERM. LANGUAGES IN THE MOD. WORLD Languages can be classified acc. to different principles. The historical classification groups lang-s in accordance with their origin from a common linguistic ancestor. English belongs to the Germanic or Teutonic group of lang-s. The modern GL are 11 in number. They all go to ProtoGermanic. And protogerm. goes to the Indoeuropean tongues. The GL fall into: 1. East Germanic (The Gothic Lang.) – nowadays all of them are dead‚ 2. North Germanic : Swedish –
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Common English Usage and Grammar Errors Please do not make the following common errors (for a complete list‚ please see http://www.wsu.edu/ ~brians/errors/errors.html): Possessive Pronouns it its (not it’s‚ a contraction of it is; note: there is no such word as its’) you your (not you’re‚ a contraction of you are) they their (not they’re‚ a contraction of they are) who whose (not who’s‚ a contraction of who is) Other Common Errors everyday (adjective) vs. every day (noun) lead (present
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Definition: Nouns make up the basic elements of the English language. Together with verbs‚ nouns form the basic components of nearly all sentences. Nouns are commonly defined as words that refer to persons‚ places‚ things‚ or ideas. The following examples show some types of nouns and how they are typically used in sentences. Persons: John f. Kennedy was president during the Cuban missile crisis. Places: Argentina is a country of wondrous beauty. Things: Football is a great sport. Plural
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Male and female English: ------------------------------------------------- adjective use in descriptions Marie De Peuter Prof. A. Housen Canigia Mestdagh English Linguistics III 2012-2013 ------------------------------------------------- Table of contents 0. Introduction 1. Theoretical background 1.1 Previous studies 1.2 Explaining
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Table of of Contents TableContents INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................3 SPELLING MISTAKES ....................................................................................4 USAGE MISTAKES .......................................................................................15 GRAMMAR MISTAKES ................................................................................31 PUNCTUATION MISTAKES ...............
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UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG Department of Languages and Literatures / English Autumn 2010 ENGLISH GRAMMAR (EN1A01 & EN1A04) Theoretical background‚ exercises and study questions by Andreas Nordin ENGLISH GRAMMAR (EN1A01 & EN1A04) Theoretical background‚ exercises and study questions This compendium accompanies the 3rd edition of Greenbaum & Nelson‚ An Introduction to English Grammar (Longman). The compendium provides additional theoretical discussions of certain topics of English grammar
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Alumna estudiosa If an adjective describes a mixed group (masculine and feminine) then the masculine plural form is used. -Alumnos estudiosos What uses do they have? In English as well as in Spanish adjectives act: • as modifiers of nouns or pronouns. • as complements of either the subject or an object The function determines their position in the sentence‚ however‚ the place the adjectives lake may be different in the Iwo languages. Kinds Adjectives in Spanish and English ale classified
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sympathetic to her because of this. The Duke wields a different form of power in ‘My Last Duchess’; that of a political and social form. He views everyone as his possessions‚ particularly his wife‚ which is shown through the repeated use of the personal pronoun “my”‚
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List all of the noun phrases in the passage‚ including the pronouns. After you have studied the list write an essay on how the noun phrases contribute to the text. How do they relate to what is being described in the extract? In Lindsey Davis’s Ode to a Banker‚ there are many uses of the noun phrase. The noun phrase is a phrase that contains a noun as well as other constituents (Yule 2010‚ p291). The noun can stand on its own as the noun phrase or include the use of articles and modifiers to enhance
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