Curso de Ingles Básico

Lesión 1

– Nouns / Subjects / adjectives / verbs / adverbs / complement / modifiers

Nouns : (sustantivos)
Names a person, place, thing or idea (Nombra a una persona, lugar, cosa, o idea)
Examples: John, love, world, picture, Madrid
Subject: (Sujeto)
It is the person, place, thing or idea (a noun) that does the action of a sentence
and it goes before the verb. (Es el sustantivo que realiza la accion de la oracion)

En Ingles siempre se menciona al sujeto

Examples of Subjects:
– George likes boats (George and boats are nouns but George is the subject)
– The weather was horrible yesterday.
– The bank closed early.

Subjects: George, weather, bank

Nouns:Action of a sentence and it goes before the verb, examples: boats,
horrible yesterday, early
Verb: likes, was, closed

Verb (verbo)
It shows the action of the subject. Every sentence must have a verb. (Hace la
acción del sujeto y toda oracion necesita de un verbo)
Examples:
– My wife went to France.
– We have studied English all night.
– I am writing a letter.
– She works for IBM company.
-Se conjuga según el tiempo y sujeto
Pronouns: We, I, She
Subjects: wife, we, I am, She
Nouns: France, studied English all night, letther, IBM company
Articles: to, a
Verbs: went (pass simple), have (present perfect), writting (present perfect),
Works (plural present)

 Adjective (adjetivo): Describes a noun (califica a un sustantivo) – Examples

: Blue house , old man, interesting book, pretty woman etc…
 No es femenino ni masculino
 Adverb (adverbio): Describes the verb or adjective. (califica al verbo o
adjetivo) – Examples: He walks slowly / He studies quietly (muchas veces
acaba en -ly)
 Describe al verbo o adverbio
Pronoun: He
Verbs: walks (present simple), studies (present simple)
 Complement:
It completes the verb and it is usually a noun or noun phrase. Every sentence does
not require a complement. The complement answers the question what? or whom?
(Es el complemento del verbo y no es requerido tenerlo en toda oración).
 Modifiers: Tells about the time, place or manner of the action. (Hable del
tiempo, lugar y manera de accion del verbo)
Subject Verb Complement Modifier
John and I Ate a pizza last week
We studied English last night
Subject-verb-complement

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