Grammar Portfolio 2

Instructions:
1) Copy this page on a file of your own.
2) Study the grammar rules introduced in this unit.
3) Write the examples requested.
4) Send your file including everything

1) Indefinite article a / an.

Use a before consonant sound.

Use an before vowel sound.

The indefinite article a / an is only used in singular.

Write some examples:

1. She is a nurse
2. He is an architect

2) Spelling rules for Plural forms:

 Add -s to a word in singular to form the corresponding plural.

Examples:

1. Pizza-pizzas
2. Toy-toys
3. Beer-beers
4. Candle-candles
5. Sock-socks
6. Eye-eyes

Add -es to words ending in -s, -sh, -ch, -x, and -o

Examples:
1. Bus-buses
2. Gas-gases
3. Bush-bushes
4. Dish-dishes
5. Watch-watches
6. Match-matches
7. Box-boxes
8. Fox-foxes
9. Tomato-tomatoes
10. Potato-potatoes
 Words ending in -y preceded by a consonant, change -y to -i and add -es.

Examples:

1. Fly-flies
2. Lady-ladies
3. Baby-babies
4. Cry-cries

 Some words have irregular plural forms.

For example, man - men; woman - women

Other examples:

1. Child-children
2. Tooth-teeth
3. Foot-feet
4. Person-people

3. Demonstratives in English:

Singular Plural

Near the speaker this these

Not so near the speaker that those

Examples:

1. This is the chair brown

2. That is my house
3. This is my family.
4. These are my brothers
5. Those are my parents
6. These is my dog
7. This is my cat

Watch the video below for more examples.

4. Possessive Nouns: Add 'S to the name of the person who possesses something.
Examples:

The Kevin’s pencil

The Kenia’s bag
The Moo’s cavern

5. Prepositions of location:
in     on     under     next to     between
This words indicate different locations of objects and people in space.
Examples (If possible insert an image to illustrate each one):
  in
 on
 next to
 between
 under
 after
 in front of
 behind
 above
 below

5. Position of adjectives:
In English the words that describe somebody or something (adjectives) are placed before
the people or objects described (noun).

Examples (If possible insert an image to illustrate each one):

The owl is on the box.
The owl is under the box.
The owl next to the box
The owl is in front of the box
The owl is between the boxes
The owl is behind the box
The owl is around the box
The owl is through the box