UNIT 4

DESCRIBING PEOPLE, THINGS,

& HISTORICAL PLACES
 Learning Overview
Describing People,
Things, & Historical
Places

Forming Yes/No
Making Mind Map
Questions

Understanding Identifying &

Descriptive Text Forming Adjectives
 Yes/No Questions

What Is It?

If a declarative sentence contains:

 an auxiliary verb ‘have’ or ‘be’,
 a modal auxiliary such as ‘may’ or ‘could’,
 or the copular form of ‘be’,
a ‘yes/no question’ is created from the sentence by applying
the rule of ‘subject-auxiliary’ (or ‘subject-aux’) inversion.
 Yes/No Questions
Subject Auxiliary Inversion
This is rule of ‘subject-auxiliary’ inversion.
Form Subject-Auxiliary Invertion
1. copular be a. He is a policeman.
b. Is he a policeman?
2. modal could + verb a. She could do it.
b. Could she do it?
3. aux is + verb (present a. She is sleeping right now.
participle) b. Is she sleeping right now?
 Yes/No Questions
Subject Auxiliary Inversion
This is rule of ‘subject-auxiliary’ inversion.

Form Subject-Auxiliary Invertion

4. aux has + verb (past a. The boss has read
participle) the report.
b. Has the boss read
the report?
5. modal should + aux a. He should have read
have + verb (past the report.
participle) b. Should he have read
the report?
 Yes/No Questions
Subject Auxiliary Inversion
This is rule of ‘subject-auxiliary’ inversion.

Form Subject-Auxiliary Invertion

6. modal could + aux have a. She could have been
+ aux been + verb working then.
(present participle) b. Could she have been
working then?
 Mind Map
What Is It?
A mind map is a visual representation of hierarchical
information that includes a central idea surrounded
by connected branches of associated topics.
Mind Map
How To Do It?
 Descriptive Text
What Is It?
 Descriptive text is a text which says. what a person or
a thing is like.
 It describes something that the writer experienced and,
through his choice of words, makes it seem real.
 You write descriptive text when you want your reader to
picture what you’re describing.
 Adjective-Noun
What Is It?
 Adjectives describe noun or pronoun.
 Adjectives give a little different meaning to a noun.
 Examples of noun: student, school
 Examples of adjectives: beautiful, young, rich, modern,
interesting, fantastic, unforgettable
 Examples in sentences:
 Tina is a student.
Noun
 Tina is a dilligent student.
Adj Noun
 Adjective-Noun
Countable & Uncountable Nouns
 A countable noun can be singular (car) or plural
(cars).
 We can use numbers with countable nouns, we can
say ‘one car’, ‘two cars’, etc.
 An uncountable noun has only one form such as
music, furniture, money and etc.
 We cannot use numbers with uncountable nouns.
We cannot say ‘one music’ or ‘two musics.’
 Adjective-Noun
How to Use It?
Sometimes we use more than one adjective in front of a noun
such as:
In the kitchen there was a beautiful large round wooden table.
Adj Adj Adj Adj Noun
 Adjective-Noun
How to Use It?
 Adjectives like new, large, round, wooden are fact adjectives.
They give factual information about age, size, color, etc.
 Adjectives like nice or beautiful are opinion adjectives. They tell
what somebody thinks of something.
 Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.
For Example:
 It is a nice long holiday.
Opinion Fact
Adj Adj

 Brian is an interesting tall young man.

Opinion Fact
Adj Adj