lunes, 2 de agosto de 2010
WRITING BASICS REFERENCE
SECTION A: SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION
01:01 WORDS
What kind of word is it?
Look at this news item:
A man in Medellin returned a library book yesterday thirty-two years late. Mario Restrepo , a teacher, found the book in his mother´s house after she died recently. It was under some old clothes at the bottom of the cupboard. The book was a romantic novel called ¨I See You Everywhere¨. Mario´s mother borrowed it thirty-four years ago, so Mario thought it was time to take it back. The library will decide next week Mr. Restrepo has to pay the overdue fine which is now over two million pesos. ¨I hope they won´t make me pay,¨ he said anxiously. ¨It´s a lot of money, and I´m not a rich man¨.
There are eight different word classes (parts of speech) in English.
1 Verbs: returned, found, died, was, see, borrowed, thought, take
Verbs are ¨doing words¨or ¨action words¨.
Mario Restrepo returned the library book
2 Nouns: man, book, years, teacher, house, clothes, cupboard
Nouns are a person, place or thing.
A man is a person, a book is a thing, a house is a place.
3 Adjective: old, romantic, rich
Adjectives describe a noun.
Some old clothes, the clothes were old.
4 Adverb: yesterday, recently, everywhere, anxiously
Adverbs describe a verb and give you more information.
When was the book returned? It was returned yesterday
5 Preposition: in, under, at, of
Prepositions indicate the position of a person or a thing in space or time.
Where was the man (person)? He was in Medellin (space).
6 Determiner: a, the, his, some
Determiners are placed in front of nouns.
An article (a / an / the) is one type of determiner.
7 Pronoun: she, it, I, you, which, they, me, he
A pronoun replaces the noun – we use a pronoun instead of a determiner + noun.
She = Mario´s mother, it = the book, which = the fine
8 Linking word: after, so, if
A linking word joins sentences together.
Mario Restrepo, a teacher found the book in his mother´s house
after
she died recently
SELF-LEARNING ASSIGNMENT NO: 01-01-001
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