English Lecture Notes: Nouns, Possessives, and Pronouns, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Lingua Inglese

Scarica English Lecture Notes: Nouns, Possessives, and Pronouns e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Lingua Inglese solo su Docsity! LETTORATO INGLESE 2  UNIT 1. NOUNS Types of noun: - CONCRETE: artist, child, table, station, food - ABSTRACT: responsibility, anger, efficiency, perception, photography - PROPER (the names of people, places, events): Jane, London, August Countable nouns: a car, three cars Uncountable nouns: oil, beauty, fruit We do not use a/an with uncountable nouns, we do not usually make them plural. Possessive forms: Noun + ‘s or ‘ (usually with people and animals): one of Sam’s vehicles has been damaged. Noun + of + noun (usually with things): there’s a scratch of the paintworks of his car. If the meaning is clear from the context, we can omit the following noun: this isn’t my handwriting. It’s Selina’s (‘s= Sel’s handwriting). Personal pronouns: Indefinite pronouns: - Gender Nouns don’t have a grammatical gender in English. To show the gender we use MALE OR FEMALE ( a male doctor). A few nouns show gender by their suffix, usually they are masculine gender (businessman). - Nouns ending in -s Some uncountable nouns end in -s but take a singular verb: Some illnesses: measles, mumps Sport and games: aerobics, gymnastics, darts Study/abstract ideas/emotions: mathematics, politics, news, thanks, happiness. A few nouns are more common in the plural form and take plural verbs: goods, whereabouts, remains, stairs, proceeds. Some nouns refer to one object divided into two parts and take a plural verb + PARTE ESERCIZI UNIT 2 - POSSESIVE’S Special rules with possessive ‘s: We can have two possessive’s forms together. If the possessive form consists of a compound noun or two more nouns which form a single team or group, we add the ‘s to the last noun only. When the nouns do not form a single group, we must use’s with both nouns. If the possessive nouns is a part of a prepositional phrase, we usually put the ‘s at the end of the phrase - DOUBLE POSSESSIVES