Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduce Yourself: - Name: Full Name - Age - Job - Address - Hobbies/ Free-Time Activities
Introduce Yourself: - Name: Full Name - Age - Job - Address - Hobbies/ Free-Time Activities
a. Interrogative sentence
b. Declarative sentence
c. Exclamatory sentence
d. Imperative sentence
Types of Sentence
1. Should I call or email you?
2. Is she a teacher?
3. Where are you from?
4. You cannot play the piano, can you?
a. Tag question
b. Yes/no question
c. WH-question
d. Alternative question
Interrogative sentences
Interrogative sentences
the rest (page 15-20)
Intransitive Verbs
Linking Verbs
Monotransitive Verbs
Subject + Verb + Object
Object could be: a noun, a noun phrase, a pronoun,
a to-infinitive, a gerund or a noun clause
Example:
- I heard the news on the radio (noun phrase)
- They have not seen her lately (pronoun)
- She regrets spending all the money (gerund)
- My father wants to see you (to-infinitive)
- He believes that she is honest (noun clause)
Ditransitive Verbs
Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object
Example:
- I bought my daughter a dress.
- The mother told her son an interesting story.
A verb may change from a ditransitive verb
into a monotransitive verb when going with a
certain preposition
(book page 33)
To - Infinitive
Functions:
1. As a noun, a to – infinitive may come in the
position of the subject, object or
complement in a sentence.
Example:
a. To learn a foreign language is very
important
b. I want to go home now.
c. My goal is to earn more money.
2. As an adjective, a to – infinitive modifies a noun.
Example:
a. Do you need a magazine to read?
b. I have a lot of work to do today.
3. As an adverb, a to – infinitive modifies a verb, an
adjective, another adverb, and a whole sentence.
Example:
a. The bag is hard to lift.
b. She goes there to get the document.
c. I am pleased to hear that you got the job.
d. She is too short to reach the bookshelf.
The semantic subject of To – infinitives:
1. For + noun/object pronoun + to –
infinitives
Example:
It is dangerous for you to walk alone at night.
Here is a book for you to read.
2. Of + noun/object pronoun + to-infinitive
Example:
It was very kind of her to do the work for me.
It was silly of us to believe him.
Bare infinitives
1. Causative verb (have, make, let) + noun/object
pronoun + bare infinitive
Example:
My father let me use his car
His boss made him do more work.
2. Perception verb (see, hear, watch, feel, listen to,
look at) + noun/object pronoun + bare infinitive
Example:
David felt something touch him on the shoulder.
Did you notice anyone go out?
Gerunds
1. Happening at the same time
Example:
As they were poor, they had to work hard.
Being poor, they had to work hard.