USE AND USAGE

ADJECTIVES | To describe, or modify, a noun or a pronoun. Adjectives usually answer questions like
which one, what kind, or how many.
Opinion, Size, Age, Form, Colour, Origin, Material, Propose, Substantive.
Lovely, Big, Old, Square, Brown, English, Leather, Scholar, Backpack.
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ADVERBS | Used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. An adverb usually modifies by telling
how, when, where, why, under what conditions, or to what degree.

1. Adverb of manners: Fast, Well, Bad, Last, -ly: quickly, slowly, easily, lowly, accidentally, etc.
2. Adverbs of place: Towards, Inside, Outside, Here, There, Back, Far, Above, Abroad, In, etc.
3. Adverbs of time: Last year, month, week… Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Later, Soon, etc.
4. Adverbs of frequency: Never, Sometimes, Often, Usually, Generally, Occasionally, Seldom, etc.
5. Adverbs of quantity: Quite, Fairly, Too, Very, Absolutely, Almost, Rather, Some, Many, etc.
6. Adverbs of probability: Probably, Maybe, Rarely, Perhaps, Generally, Usually, Surely, etc.
7.Adverbs of affirmation and negation: Never, Always, Really, Any, No, Yes, By all means, etc.
8. Adverbs of grade:

- Intensifying adverbs: which add or subtract intensity to the verb.

- Of comparison:which compare two characteristics or actions within a sentence.
- The ending '-ly', whose function is to add intensity to the verb, its difference being the way in
which the adverb is structured.

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ARTICLES | Is a word that’s used to indicate that a noun is a noun without describing it and is used
before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective.

Definite - (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader.
Indefinite - (a, an) is used before a noun that is general or when its identity isn’t known.
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CONJUNCTIONS | In a sentence made up of subjects, verbs and predicates, conjunctions are necessary
to unite all the elements or ideas.
1. Compound: More than one word and usually followed by “as” or “that”.
2. Correlative: They surround an adjective or an adverb, such as “if…then”.
3. Simple: One word.
4. Coordinates: Link two sentences that have the same value.
and, but, however, or, so, then, therefore, yet, therefore, nevertheless, moreover, as well as, etc.
5. Subordinates: When one of the sentences depends on the other (subordinate sentence). The
subordinate clause doesn't make sense without the other.
although, as, after, before, if, since, so that, until, when, whether, whereas, unless, though. etc.
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PREPOSITIONS | They’re words, or groups of words, that serve to join a noun or a pronoun with
another element of a sentence. This link is created by showing the relationship between a word in the
phrase and the object of the preposition.

1. Preposition of movement: Across, Along, Around, Away from, Down, From, Into, Off, Onto, etc.
2. Prepositions of place: Above, Across, Along, Around, Against, At, Behind, Beside, Below, etc.
3. Prepositions of time: About, After, Around, Before, Beyond, By, During, For, Past, Since, etc.
4. Prepositions of location: In, At, On.
5. Other prepositions: Ago, Circa, Per, etc.

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PRONOUNS | They replace the subject of a sentence, so they’re used to designate people, animals or
things.

1. Personal: Refer to specific persons, places, or things, personal pronouns also refer to specific persons,
places, or things. Pronouns have characteristics called number, person, and case.

2. Indefinite:Indefinite pronouns all are third-person pronouns and can be subjects or objects
in sentences.
3. Possessive: Replace possessive nouns..

4. Relative: A relative pronoun begins a clause that refers to a noun in a sentence.

5. Reflexive: They always follow a noun or personal pronoun and do not appear alone in a sentence.

6. Demonstrative: That’s a pronoun referring to the abstract noun idea, indicate specific persons,
places, or things.

REFERENCES:

Butte College. (12 de septiembre de 2019). THE EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH. Butte Campus Drive,
Oroville CA. Website:
http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/grammar/parts_of_speech.html

English Grammar Today. (2021). Conditionals: if. Cambridge University Dictionary. Cambridge
University Press. Website:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/conditionals-if

Melchor Amador Amairani

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