Learning English.

[OdaySomali]

Compound Subjects

 

More than one subject may be used for a verb.

 

Often we use the conjunction “and” or a comma to combine nouns and pronouns as the subject of a verb. Two or more separate subjects make a compound subject.

 

- Example: note the compound subject in the following sentence: “Boys and girls will be at the party”.

[OdaySomali]

Adjectives

 

Adjectives are words that words that describe and “modify” nouns and pronouns. One-word adjectives usually come right before the word they modify and answer the questions: Which one ? or How many ?

 

Example: The following underlined words are adjectives: red cars … expensive clothes … his book … Florida oranges … Sam’s smile… Five covers … Their house … The Story … A journey … Two-faced friend … Running water … Youngest son.

 

There may be more than one adjective. See the examples below.

 

Example: Red, blue, and green cars. Ford, Toyota, and Jeep cars. Small, medium and large sizes. Detached, terraced and semi-terraced houses. A long hot summer. The small brick house. That pretty Somali girl.

 

The most common adjectives are the articles: the, a, an.

[wyre]

OdaySomali;823008 wrote:

Adjectives

Somali

girl.

 

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:D

[OdaySomali]

[OdaySomali]

- A noun is a word that describes a person, place or thing.

 

Example: consider the following nouns: “Alice Smith” is a person; “London, UK” is a place; and a “house” is a thing.

 

 

 

- Pro-nouns are words that take the place of nouns in the sentence.

 

Example: Consider the following: “Jack will attend. He will be late.” The pronoun “he”, takes the place of the noun “Jack”. Other pre-nouns include she, he, they, we, us, I, you, your, it, their, her, his, which, that, both, either, neither etc. Pro-nouns are words that take the place of nouns in the sentence.

 

- A noun can be countable or uncountable. Countable nouns can be "counted", they have a singular and plural form .

 

For example:

 

A book, two books, three books .....

An apple, two apples, three apples ....

 

- Uncountable nouns (also called mass nouns or noncount nouns) cannot be counted, they are not seperate objects. This means you cannot make them plural by adding -s, because they only have a singular form. It also means that they do not take a/an or a number in front of them.

 

For example:

 

Water

Work

Information

Sand

Rice

Music

 

- A common noun is a word that names people, places, things, or ideas. They are not the names of a single person, place or thing. For example:-

 

People:-

man, girl, boy, mother, father, child, person, teacher, student

 

Animals:-

cat, dog, fish, ant, snake

 

Things:-

book, table, chair, phone

 

Places:-

school, city, building, shop

 

Concepts:-

love, hate, idea, pride

 

- Proper nouns ( also called proper names) are the words which name specific people, organisations or places. They always start with a capital letter.

 

For example:-

 

Each part of a person's name is a proper noun:-

Lynne Hand - Elizabeth Helen Ruth Jones ...

 

The names of companies, organisations or trade marks:-

Microsoft - Rolls Royce - the Round Table - WWW

 

Given or pet names of animals:-

Lassie Trigger Sam

 

The names of cities and countries and words derived from those proper nouns:-

Paris - London - New York - England - English

 

Geographical and Celestial Names:-

the Red Sea - Alpha Centauri - Mars

 

Monuments, buildings, meeting rooms:-

The Taj Mahal - The Eiffel Tower - Room 222

 

Historical events, documents, laws, and periods:-

the Civil War - the Industrial Revolution - World War I

 

Months, days of the week, holidays:-

Monday - Christmas - December

[kingofkings]

OdaySomali;823018 wrote:

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Pre-nouns

are words that take the place of nouns in the sentence.

 

odeysomali, its not pre-noun, pronoun.

[kingofkings]

thanks for the thread. sure brings a lot memories in grammar school.

[OdaySomali]

kingofkings;823021 wrote:

odeysomali, its not pre-noun,

pronoun

.

Thanks sxb I've corrected it.

 

kingofkings;823022 wrote:

thanks for the thread. sure brings a lot memories in grammar school.

No prob. I thought whilst i'm studying it, I might as well allow other SOLers the opportunity to learn/refresh their minds.

[OdaySomali]

My lessons were going very well untill I reached adjective identification. To be continued another time.... perhaps when I master adjective identification.

 

I still have a long way to go. 5 and a half modules, to be exact. And I thought learning the basics of the English language would be easy

 

The modules are:

 

1) Word and Phrase Patterns. (What we have been looking at so far.)

2) Cause Patterns

3) Verb Tense and Verbal Patterns

4) Verb Forms and Sentence Patterns

5) Puntuation and Capitalisation

6) Supplement: Troublesome Words.

[kingofkings]

odeysomali :cool:

[kingofkings]

keep the thread alive. A lot of SOLers will benefit from it.

[xiimaaya]

very usefull thanks..

[OdaySomali]

BUMP!

 

I am just getting through adjective identification. It all makes sense now.

[Alpha Blondy]

lol @ thread.

 

why do you want to learn English, abti?

 

 

[OdaySomali]

lol @ you lolling @ this thread... what's funny?

 

So I can speak the language properly

 

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@Alpha Blondy

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lol @ thread.

 

why do you want to learn English, abti?