Using nouns, adjectives and articles.

1. USING:
NOUNS, ADJECTIVES
AND ARTICLE
NANCY LÓP E Z

2. NOUNS CAN FUNCTION AS
ADJECTIVES
•Shoe
• Store
• Flower
•Garden
•Baby
• Food
• Child
• Pshycologist
• Salad
• Fork
• Mosquito
• Net

3. BASIC ARTICLE USAGE
USING A OR 0
• A banana is yellow.
• Any banana. Generalization with singular count noun.
• Bananas are yellow.
• Generalizations with plural count nouns.
• Fruit is yellow.
• Any and all fruit. Generalization with noncount nouns.

4. USING «A» OR «SOME»
• I ate a banana.
• One banana out of all bananas
• I ate some bananas.
• Some can be used with indefinite plural count nouns.
• I ate some fruit.
• Some can be used with indefinite noncount nouns.

5. USING «THE»
• A noun is definite when both the speaker and the
listener are thinking about the same specific thing.
• Thank you for the banana.
• Thank you for the bananas.
• Thank you for the fruit.

6. A FEW/ A LITTLE
• Indicate that something exists or is present.
• She has been here only two weeks, but she has already
made a few friends. C
• I’ve been able to save a little money this month. NC

7. (VERY) + FEW / LITTLE
• Give a negative idea.
• Indicate that something is largely
absent.
• She has (very) few friends.
• I have (very) little money.

8. ONE/ EACH/ EVERY ARE FOLLOWED
BY SINGULAR COUNT NOUNS
• There is only one girl in my life.
• I gave a present to each student.
• Sandra invited every member of the club.

9. ONE OF / EACH OF/ EVERY ONE OF
ARE FOLLOWED BY SPECIFIC PLURAL COUNT
NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.
• One of the students was late to class.
• Each of the students has a schedule
• Every one of the students has a schedule.

10. “OF” IN EXPRESSIONS OF
QUANTITY
• With some expressions of quantity, of is
not used when the noun is nonspecific.
• I bought one book / I bought many books.

11. “OF” IN EXPRESSIONS OF
QUANTITY
• “of” is used with specific nouns and
pronouns.
• One of those books is mine.
• Some of the books are yours.
• Many of my books are in English.
• Most of them are paperbacks.

12. “OF” IN EXPRESSIONS OF
QUANTITY
• Expressions such as “a lot of” always
include “of”