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Grammatical categories of English, SANTIAGO JAIMES PERALTA, GRAMMAR,…
Grammatical categories of English
Pronouns
Personal
A pronoun has the same meaning as a noun
Possessive
Possessive pronouns show ownership of a person, place, or thing
Demonstratives
are used to indicate specific persons or things pointing out the one referred to and distinguishing it from others of the same class
Reflections
are words that refer back to the object that is being talked about
Undefined “it”
use it to talk about the day/month/year/date/time and weather.
Using “The”
The use of this article (“the”) tells us that both the speaker and the listener have the same thing or person in mind
Prepositions
Of time
Of location
Connectors
Connectors are used to join two sentences, they make a sentence longer from two smaller ones
AND
in addition
BUT
however
OR
showing possibilities or choices
BECAUSE
is the reason for something
SO
the result of something
Comparisions
The comparative: Using – er +than and more + than
The superlative: Using the + –est and the + most
Nouns (countable and uncountable)
Uncountable nouns
have no plurals and cannot normally be used with the articles a/an.
countable nouns
have plurals and can be used with the articles a/an
Adjectives
describe nouns and are going to come in front of nouns, adjectives "modify" nouns
Using frequency adverbs: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, rarely, and never
They come between the subject and the simple present verb in other words they will *always come after the subject.
Determiners
is a word used to modify a noun and goes in front of it this helps to make clear what the noun is referring to
Quantifiers
a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, too, enough
Distributives
both, either, neither
Difference words
other, another
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