2. Adjective: is a 'describing' word which is to qualify a
noun or noun phrase.
Adjectival Phrases have an specific order:
Opinion, Size, Shape, Condition, Age, Color, Origin/Material
NOUN
Spanish/beautiful/a/woman/Young
3. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that
immediately follows another noun. An appositive
explains or defines the noun it follows and is set off
by commas.
The word appositive comes from the Latin for to put
near.
Mexico City, the biggest city in the world, has many
interesting archaeological sites.
Mexico City = the biggest city in the world
4. A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural
processes of the Earth:
Hurricane
Floods
Volcanic eruptions
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Drought
other geologic processes.
A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and
typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of
which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to
recover.
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6. [VERB+ed] or Irregular Verbs
Examples:
You called Debbie.
? Did you call Debbie?
- You did not call Debbie.
Almost all regular verbs ended with: ED
If the verb ends with an “E”: D
If the verb ends with a “Y” and before it has a vowel:
ED
If the verb ends with a “Y” and before it has a
consonant: IED
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9. An adjective clause is used to describe a noun:
The car, which was red, belonged to Young-Hee.
Adjectival Clause
A relative pronoun is usually used
to introduce an adjective clause:
Young-Hee, who is a Korean student, lives in
Victoria.
Relative Pronouns
10. ING
Verb: I am playing in the park.
Noun: Andrea´s playing helps to understand English.
Possessive + Ing + 3rd Person + Complement
Auxiliaries: CAN – Would 3rd Persons: S - ES - IES
Plays - CH, SH, X - “Y”
VCC
Object: Cristal cooks singing.
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12. We make the Present Perfect tense with the correct
form of the auxiliary verb have (have/has) and the
third form (past participle) of the main verb.
To form the past participle of the regular verbs, we
add ed to the infinitive.
Examples:
I have worked as a secretary for two years.
Have you ever visited the Disneyland?
The film hasn't started yet.