2. Review
1. The word grammar has two meanings. What
are they?
2. Why is it difficult to study grammar?
3. How does an ELL grammar differ from a
traditional one?
4. What should an ELL grammar focus?
5. What does a traditional grammar focus?
3. Review
6. What’s sentence diagramming? Is it useful?
7. What does ‘instinctual knowledge of
grammar’ mean? Exemplify it.
8. What’s the difference between inductive and
deductive teaching?
9. What is the difference between a clause and
a phrase?
10. What’s an independent (main) clause?
11. What’s a dependent (subordinate) clause?
4. Review
12. What’s the most common way to teach
someone about a given part of speech?
13. Explain the “slot and filler’ approach. Why is
it sometimes problematic?
14. What are possible slots for a noun?
15. What’s the difference between common
nouns and proper nouns?
16. What’s the difference between concrete
nouns and abstract nouns?
17. What’s the difference between count and
non-count nouns?
5. Review
18. What’s a verb?
19. What are the principal parts of verbs?
20. What are verb tenses?
21. What’s the difference between transitive
and intransitive verbs?
22. What’s a linking verb?
23. What are auxiliary verbs or helping verbs?
24. What are modal verbs? .
25. What are possible slots for a verb?
6. Review
26. What is a pronoun?
27. What are the possible slots for a pronoun?
28. What are the different kinds of pronouns?
29. What is an adjective?
30. What are possible slots for an adjective?
31. What makes adjectives difficult for ELLs?
Discuss just a few aspects about it.
7. Review
32. What is an adverb?
33. What questions does an adverb answer?
34. What are possible slots for an adverb?
35. Describe adverbs of manner, frequency, and
degree.
36. What do conjunctions link?
37. What are coordinating conjunctions?
38. What are subordinating conjunctions?
8. Review
39. What are conjunctive adverbs/transition
words?
40. What are correlative conjunctions?
41. What’s a preposition? Are prepositions
usually one short word?
42. Why is teaching prepositions perhaps one of
the most difficult grammatical points in
English?
43. What are the different kinds of prepositions?
9. Review
Write L, T, or M above each preposition to
indicate if it is a preposition of location (L), time
(T), or movement (M).
1. I wonder why we decided to meet at Jim’s
house at 8 PM on Saturday. It is so early.
2. Yesterday I did a bit of driving at night. After
dinner, we had to drop Jane at her house.
From her house, I drove five miles to Rick’s
apartment and then finally home.
10. Review
3. I do not like going to movie theaters.
Sometimes if you miss the beginning of a
movie you want to see by 20 minutes, you
have to wait for two hours. Renting movies is
my thing.
4. After the reception, Chris invited us to go to
his house to celebrate the end of the project
he has been working on for the past three
months.
5. I got a gift on Valentine’s Day with a little
note attached, which read: With all my
love, from my heart to yours.
11. Homework
• Study for the Quiz:
- Red Book (Pages 16-73)
- + Acronyms + Inductive X Deductive Teaching +
Phrases
