Grammar Elfrida Bakara
Grammar Elfrida Bakara
Grammar Elfrida Bakara
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LECTURE : GRAMMAR III
LECTURER : MR. SABAM MARPAUNG S.PD
Defenition Of Grammar
Grammar is the structural foundation of our ability to express ourselves. The more we are
aware of how it works, the more we can monitor the meaning and effectiveness of the way
we and others use language. It can help foster precision, detect ambiguity, and exploit the
richness of expression available in English. And it can help everyone--not only teachers of
English, but teachers of anything, for all teaching is ultimately a matter of getting to grips
with meaning.
Grammar is the science which treats of the nature of words, their forms, and their uses and
relations in the sentence.
Grammar is used as a term to refer to the prescriptive rules of a given language, which
may change over time or be open to debate.
Grammar is a field of linguistics that involves all the various things that make up the rules
of language. Subfields of linguistics that are considered a part of grammar include syntax,
phonetics, morphology, and semantics.
Grammar is the science of letter; hence the science of using words correctly.
Grammar is the system of a language.
Function Of Grammar
Indirect Objects: The indirect object is the secondary receiver of the
action. In the sentence "Alfred carried the sword to the battle," "battle"
is the indirect object (and "sword," which is receiving the action, is the
direct object). Indirect objects are often called "objects of prepositions"
because in Modern English we use prepositions to indicate the sort of
action being secondarily received: in the phrases "to the battle," "with
the sword," "under the thorn tree," "by the river" "battle," "sword,"
"tree," and "river" are the objects of their respective prepositions.
1. NOUN
A noun is often defined as a word which names a person, place or thing. Here are
some examples of nouns: boy, river, friend, Mexico, triangle, day, school, truth,
university, idea, John F. Kennedy, movie, aunt, vacation, eye, dream, flag, teacher,
class, grammar. John F. Kennedy is a noun because it is the name of a person;
Mexico is a noun because it is the name of a place; and boy is a noun because it is
the name of a thing. Some grammar books divide nouns into 2 groups - proper
nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns are nouns which begin with a capital
letter because it is the name of a specific or particular person place or thing. Some
examples of proper nouns are: Mexico, John F. Kennedy, Atlantic Ocean,
February, Monday, New York City, Susan, Maple Street, Burger King. If you see a
word beginning with a capital letter in in the middle of a sentence, it is probably a
proper noun. Most nouns are common nouns and do not begin with a capital
letter.
Many nouns have a special plural form if there is more than one. For example, we
say one book but two books. Plurals are usually formed by adding an -s (books)
or -es (boxes) but some plurals are formed in different ways (child - children,
person - people, mouse - mice, sheep - sheep).
For example, the word train is a common, concrete, countable, singular noun.
Noun Type
Common Nouns name people, places or things that are not specific.
e.g : man, mountain, state, ocean, country, building, cat, airline
Proper Nouns name specific people, places, or things.
e.g : Walt Disney, Mount Kilimanjaro, Minnesota, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Empire
State Building, Fluffy, Sun Country.
Abstract Nouns name nouns that you can't perceive with your five sense.
e.g : love, wealth, happiness, pride, fear, religion, belief, history, communication.
Concrete Nouns name nouns that you can perceive with your five senses.
e.g : house, ocean, Uncle Mike, bird, photograph, banana, eyes, light, sun, dog, suitcase,
flowers
Countable Nouns name nouns that you can count.
e.g : bed, cat, movie, train, country, book, phone, match, speaker, clock, pen,
David, violin
Uncountalbe Nouns name nouns that you can't count.
e.g : milk, rice, snow, rain, water, food, music
Compound Nouns are made up of two or more words.
e.g : tablecloth, eyeglasses, New York, photograph, daughter-in-law, pigtails,
sunlight, snowflake
Collective Nouns refer to things or people as a unit.
e.g : bunch, audience, flock, team, group, family, band, village.
Singular Nouns name one person, place, thing, or idea.
e.g : cat, sock, ship, hero, monkey, baby, match
Plural Nouns name more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
e.g : cats, socks, ships, heroes, monkeys, babies, matches
2. PRONOUN
A pronoun is often defined as a word which can be used instead of a noun. For
example, instead of saying John is a student, the pronoun he can be used in place of
the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student. We use pronouns very
often, especially so that we do not have to keep on repeating a noun. This chapter is
about the kind of pronoun called a personal pronoun because it often refers to a
person. Like nouns, personal pronouns sometimes have singular and plural forms (I-
we, he-they).
Unlike nouns, personal pronouns sometimes have different forms for masculine/male,
feminine/female and neuter (he-she-it). Also unlike nouns, personal pronouns have
different forms depending on if they act as subjects or objects (he-him, she-her). A
subject is a word which does an action and usually comes before the verb, and an
object is a word that receives an action and usually comes after the verb. For
example, in the sentence Yesterday Susan called her mother, Susan is the subject and
mother is the object. The pronoun she can be used instead of Susan and the pronoun
her can be used instead of mother. The form of a personal pronoun also changes
according to what person is referred to. Person is used here as a grammar word and
means:
1st person or the self (I, me, we),
2nd person or the person spoken to (you),
3rd person or the person spoken about (he, she, him, her, they, them).
Example : Tara is Indian.
She is beautiful.
There is also a possessive form of the pronoun. Just as we can make a
noun possessive as in the sentence That is my father's book to mean That is
the book of my father, we can make the pronoun possessive and say That
book is his. There are possessive adjective forms (such as my, your, his,
her etc.) that are discussed with other adjectives in chapter .
Possessive pronouns can stand by themselves without nouns, but
possessive adjectives, like other adjectives, are used together with nouns.
There is also an intensive form of the pronoun which intensifies or
emphasizes the noun that it comes after as in the sentence I myself saw
him. The reflexive form of the pronoun looks exactly like the intensive
form but is used when the subject and object of a verb refers to the same
person as in the sentence I saw myself in the mirror.
Singular
Person Subject Object Possessive Intensive
Reflexive
1st I me mine myself
Indefinite Pronouns
refer to something that is
unspecified.
Singular anybody, anyone, anything, each,
either, everybody, everyone,
everything, neither, nobody, no one,
nothing, one, somebody, someone,
something
Plural both, few, many, several
There are three main types of verbs: action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs
(also called auxiliary verbs).
Action Verbs
As their name implies, these verbs show action.
Keep in mind that action doesn't always mean movement.
Example:
Talia thought about bears.
In that example, the verb thought does not show movement, but it is a mental action,
and therefore, it is still a verb.
There are many, many action verbs. Here is random assortment of some action verbs.
Linking Verbs
These types of verbs link the subject of a sentence with a noun or adjective.
Example:
Lana became a famous equestrian.
If you count all of the forms of "to be" as one word, there are 13 linking verbs.
Other Linking Verbs appear, become, feel, grow, look, seem, remain,
smell, sound, stay, taste, turn
Helping Verbs
These do just what their name implies. They help action verbs or linking verbs. There
can be more than one of them used in a single verb phrase.
Example: (used with the action verb love)
Greta will love these sausages.
There are only 24 helping verbs.
Be Am Is Are
Was were Been Being
Have Has Had Could
Should Would May Might
Irregular verb
Most, but not all adverbs end in -ly as in But not all words that end in -ly are
adverbs (ugly is an adjective, supply and reply can both be nouns or verbs).
Many times an adjective can be made into an adverb by adding -ly as in nicely,
quickly, completely, sincerely.
Adverbs of time tell when something happens and adverbs of frequency tell how
often something happens.
Below are some common adverbs of time and frequency which you
should learn:
Let's go tomorrow.
She rarely eats a big breakfast.
Adverbs that tell us When?
A: after, afterwards, annually
B: before
D: daily
N: never, now
S: soon, still
T: then, today, tomorrow
W: weekly, when
Y: yesterday
Articles
There are only three of these special types of adjectives: a, an , and the.
These can still be given in degrees, but they don't follow the patterns listed above.
6. PREPOSITION
A preposition usually shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another part
of a sentence.
There are many prepositions, including: about, above, across, after, against, along, among,
around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, between, beyond, beside, besides, by, down,
during, except, from, for, in, inside, into, like, near, next, of, off, on, out, out of, outside,
over, past, round, since, than, through, till, to, toward, towards, under, underneath, unless,
until, upon, up, with, without.
A preposition is a word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The
relationships include direction, place, time, cause, manner and amount. In the sentence She
went to the store, to is a preposition which shows direction. In the sentence He came by
bus, by is a preposition which shows manner. In the sentence They will be here at three
o'clock, at is a preposition which shows time and in the sentence It is under the table, under
is a preposition which shows place.
without.
Prepositions of time:
at two o'clock
on Wednesday
in an hour, in January; in 1992
for a day
Prepositions of place:
at my house
in New York, in my hand
on the table
near the library
across the street
under the bed
between the books
7. CONJUNCTION
A conjunction connects words, phrases, and clauses.
Coordinating Conjunctions
There are only seven of these.
Example: cookies and milk
Here they are:
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
You can remember them using the acronym FANBOYS.
Subordinating Conjunctions
There are many subordinating conjunctions. This list does not include all of them.
Example: I will eat broccoli after I eat this cookie.
A: after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though
B: because, before, by the time
E: even if, even though
I: if, in order that, in case
L: lest
O: once, only if
P: provided that
S: since, so that
T: than, that, though, till
U: unless, until
W: when, whenever, where, wherever, while
whether... or
8. INTERJECTION
An interjection is a word that expresses feeling or emotion; usually it is followed by an exclamation
mark.
Examples: Oh! Ah! Wow! Darn! Gosh! Golly! Gee! Ow! Ouch! Yikes! Holy
moly! Yippee! Hooray! Boo! Whew!
Interjections are words that show emotion. They are not grammatically related to the rest of the sentence.
Thout further ado, here is the list of interjections:
A: aha, ahem, ahh, ahoy, alas, arg, aw
B: bam, bingo, blah, boo, bravo, brrr
C: cheers, congratulations
D: dang, drat, darn, duh
E: eek, eh, encore, eureka
F: fiddlesticks
G: gadzooks, gee, gee whiz, golly, goodbye, goodness, good grief, gosh
H: ha-ha, hallelujah, hello, hey, hmm, holy buckets, holy cow,
holy smokes, hot dog, huh?, humph, hurray
O: oh, oh dear, oh my, oh well, ooops, ouch, ow
P: phew, phooey, pooh, pow
R: rats
S: shh, shoo
T: thanks, there, tut-tut
U: uh-huh, uh-oh, ugh
W: wahoo, well, whoa, whoops, wow
Y: yeah, yes, yikes, yippee, yo, yuck
2. Active Voice, Passive Voice
There are two special forms for verbs called voice:
Active voice
Passive voice
The active voice is the "normal" voice. This is the voice that we use most of the
time. You are probably already familiar with the active voice. In the active voice, the
object receives the action of the verb:
The passive voice is less usual. In the passive voice, the subject receives the
action of the verb:
3. Main Verbs
4. Coordination
When we coordinate things, whether we're talking about our schedules or our clothing, we make
connections--or, as the dictionary says in a more fanciful way, "bring things together in a common and
harmonious action." The same idea applies when we talk about coordination in grammar.
A common way to connect related words, phrases, and even entire clauses is to coordinate them--that is,
connect them with a coordinating conjunction such as "and" or "but." The following short paragraph from
Ernest Hemingway's Another Country contains several coordinated words, phrases, and clauses.
In most of his novels and short stories, Hemingway relies heavily (some readers might say too heavily) on
such basic conjunctions as "and" and "but." The other coordinating conjunctions are yet, or, nor, for, and
so.
Similar to these basic conjunctions are the following paired conjunctions (sometimes called correlative
conjunctions):
both . . . and
either . . . or
neither . . . nor
not . . . but
not . . . nor
not only . . . but (also)
whether . . . or
5.Going to
Intention
We use the special going to construction when we have the intention to
do something before we speak. We have already made a decision before
speaking.
Look at these examples:
I have won $1,000. I am going to buy a new TV.
We're not going to see my mother tomorrow.
When are you going to go on holiday?
In these examples, we had an intention or plan before speaking. The
decision was made before we spoke.
Prediction
We often use going to to make a prediction about the future. Our
prediction is based on evidence. We are saying what seems sure
to happen. Here are some examples:
The sky is very black. It is going to snow.
It's 8.30! You're going to miss the train!
I crashed the company car. My boss isn't going to be very happy!
In these examples, the present situation (black sky/the
time/damaged car) gives us a good idea of what is going to
happen.
We use will for prediction when we have no real evidence: "It
will rain tomorrow." (It's my feeling but I can't be sure.)
We use going to for prediction when there is some real evidence:
"It's going to rain." (There's a big, black cloud in the sky and if it
doesn't rain I'll be very surprised.)
6.English Conditionals
7.Questions or Interrogative
What is a question?
A statement is a sentence that gives information. A question is a sentence that asks
for information. Questions are also called "interrogative".
Basic Question Structure
The basic structure of a question in English is very simple:
auxiliary verb + subject + main verb
e.g : Do you like marry ?
Are they playing football ?