* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download The Little Rules You NTK
Survey
Document related concepts
Japanese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Swedish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Preposition and postposition wikipedia , lookup
Latin syntax wikipedia , lookup
Scottish Gaelic grammar wikipedia , lookup
French grammar wikipedia , lookup
Serbo-Croatian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Hebrew grammar wikipedia , lookup
Yiddish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Icelandic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Esperanto grammar wikipedia , lookup
Italian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Malay grammar wikipedia , lookup
Romanian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Turkish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Pipil grammar wikipedia , lookup
Spanish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Danish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Transcript
The Little Rules You NTK What’s in a Name?—The Noun Proper February Egypt Mrs. Duffy Common ? ? ? Concrete Star, water, album Abstract freedom, warmth, capitalism Compound John William Pearson III Franklin County Community And Technical College Collective Army, herd, family Pithy Pronouns When Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner came into the room, Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner thought to Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner’s self. “Is the situation just Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner, or is the temperature really hot in here?” Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner went to the window and opened the lower part of the window, only to have a number of mosquitoes quickly fly right at Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner. Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner said a few choice words, and then hit a few of the mosquitoes when the mosquitoes came to rest on Mrs. Anne Marie Shreiner’s arm. Pronoun Classifications Personal—people or things: I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, they, them Possessive—show ownership: mine, yours, hers, his, theirs, ours Demonstrative—point out: this, that, these, those Relative—relate one part of the sentence to another: who, whom, which, that, whose (One country that I’d like to visit someday is France.) Reflexive (intensive)—reflect back to someone/something in the sentence: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves (You must ask yourself that question.) **a pretentious mistake—using the reflexive pronoun when a personal pronoun will do: (Please call Allan and myself at your earliest convenience. Here, “myself” isn’t necessary because you haven’t said who “myself” is. It should be replaced with “me.”) Interrogative—ask questions: who, whom, which, whose, what Indefinite—contrary to their name—sometimes refer to a definite noun that has already been mentioned in the sentence: all, another, any, both, either, few most, no one, nothing, others, several, something) Adjectives—3 Little Questions • Which one? • What kind of? • How many? Articles—a, an, the Indefinite—a, an Definite—the Da, Da, Daahh: Adverbs! • • • • • • • • How?—She strolled happily. When?—We left yesterday. Where?—They ran backwards. Why?-Under what circumstances? How much? How often?—I raised my hand twice. To what extent?—He answered quickly. Try Some Tom Swifties! “Punny” ways (adverbs) Tom is quoted as saying something specific: Ex. “Which way is the cemetery?” Tom said gravely.” 1. “Would you turn out that light?” Tom asked________. 2. “That’s nothing; I’ve had a transplant,” Tom’s father countered _________. 3. “I can’t tell if that is sleet or hail,” Tom said ________. 4. “You’re driving too fast!” Tom cried _______. 5. “The florist has run out of flowers,” Tom lamented _________. 6. “This is the end of our relationship,” Tom declared __________. 7. “Let’s go see a baseball game in Atlanta,” Tom suggested __________. 8. “Don’t stick your finger out at me,” Tom roared _______. 9. “Oh-oh. We need a spare tire,” Tom proclaimed _________. 10. “May I have some splenda?” Tom requested ___________. Show Me the Action and the Being Action Verbs—Transitive and Intransitive Lie/lay Sit/set State of Being verbs—am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has been, should have been, may be, and might be *We’ll deal with verb tense a little later. The Junction in Conjunction • “Joining words” • Coordinating: and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet (BOYSFAN) • Correlative: (PAIRS—MUST HAVE A “relative”) both/and, neither/nor, not only/also, not only/but also • Subordinating: too many to name— although, before, once, since, so long as, unless, whenever, while What’s Your Position on Prepositions? • A word that links a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence – Jack and Jill went up the hill. • (Up is the prep. connecting went and hill.) • Some preps are compound: – – – – In spite of Next to On top of Together with Try This • If the word in question will fill this sentence and make sense, it is most likely a preposition: • It went__________the thing(s). – “of” is the most notable exception *Never end a sentence with a preposition? Heavens to Betsy! • Use far more often in dialogue than formal writing, these little expressions indicate surprise or emotion. They do not change the meaning of the sentence and can be taken out freely. • Like, totally.