* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download The journey back home
Old Norse morphology wikipedia , lookup
Proto-Indo-European verbs wikipedia , lookup
French grammar wikipedia , lookup
Scottish Gaelic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ojibwe grammar wikipedia , lookup
Kannada grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ukrainian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old Irish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Navajo grammar wikipedia , lookup
Portuguese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Germanic strong verb wikipedia , lookup
Germanic weak verb wikipedia , lookup
Chinese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Swedish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Malay grammar wikipedia , lookup
English clause syntax wikipedia , lookup
Japanese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Macedonian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Polish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Hebrew grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ancient Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ancient Greek verbs wikipedia , lookup
Sotho verbs wikipedia , lookup
Georgian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Yiddish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Italian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Icelandic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Hungarian verbs wikipedia , lookup
Russian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Spanish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Lexical semantics wikipedia , lookup
Latin syntax wikipedia , lookup
Old English grammar wikipedia , lookup
Serbo-Croatian grammar wikipedia , lookup
English grammar wikipedia , lookup
Paco travels to New Zealand: The journey back home By Cako- Creative Commons The journey back home ‘Idioms’ An idiom is a language feature with a figurative meaning far from that of its real one. They are quite common in everyday English. Example: There is something fishy about it. ( A strange or suspicious situation ) The journey back home ‘Phrasal verbs’ Take off is a phrasal verb that is a part of a large group of verbs called "multiword verbs“ Multi-word verbs, including phrasal verbs, are very common, especially in spoken English. The particle can change the meaning of the verb completely. A multi-word verb is a verb like "pick up", "turn on" or "get on with“, etc… These verbs consist of a basic verb + another word or words. The other word(s) can be prepositions and/or adverbs. The journey back home ‘Conjunctions (I)’ A conjunction is a word that "joins". A conjunction joins two parts of a sentence. There are two main types of conjunctions: Coordinating Subordinating The journey back home ‘Conjunctions (I)’ Function: Coordinating conjunctions join two parts of a sentence that are grammatically equal: single words or clauses, for example: - Jack and Jill went up the hill. - The water was warm, but I didn't go swimming. Subordinating conjunctions join a subordinate dependent clause to a main clause, for example: -I went swimming although it was cold. Position: Coordinating conjunctions are always placed between the words or clauses that they join. Subordinating conjunctions are usually placed at the beginning of the subordinate clause. The journey back home