hello my name is jackie and i teach
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for beginners you're going to learn all
about basic english grammar we'll
discuss some of the most important
grammar rules for using nouns verbs
articles and more there will be a quiz
at the end of this video to test your
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now we're going to talk about english
grammar
first let's talk about the parts of
speech
there are eight parts of speech the noun
pronoun verb
adjective adverb preposition
conjunction and interjection
nouns are people places and things
common nouns are non-specific
people places and things
proper nouns are specific people places
and things examples of proper nouns
include
people's names
cities
countries the names of streets the days
of the week and the months of the year
they are always spelled with a capital
letter
next let's talk about pronouns
pronouns replace
nouns there are three kinds of pronouns
personal pronouns possessive pronouns
and demonstrative pronouns
personal pronouns are i
you he she it we and they
possessive pronouns are mine
yours his hers or theirs
demonstrative pronouns are pronouns such
as these those this and that
okay let's talk about verbs
verbs describe an action such as a
physical action or a mental action and a
state of being
verbs can be changed from the present
tense to the past tense and the future
tense
there are two types of verbs regular
verbs that follow a certain conjugation
pattern and irregular verbs that do not
have a specific conjugation pattern
let's look at the regular verb walk
in the present tense walk is simply
w-a-l-k
i walk to school every day
now let's talk about it in the simple
past
all we have to do to regular verbs and
add an ed at the end of the base form of
the verb for instance we spell walked
e w-a-l-k-e-d
i walked to school yesterday
now let's talk about it in the future
tense
there are two forms of the future tense
the future tense is created by
using going to
before the verb
or
will
and then the verb
going to walk
and will walk
i am going to walk to school tomorrow
and i will walk to school tomorrow
irregular verbs do not follow a certain
conjugation pattern in fact you have to
memorize the different forms of
irregular verbs let's look at run
i run
to talk about run in the simple past we
have to memorize that this form is ran
i ran
let's look at the verb say
he says
but to talk about it in the simple past
we have to remember that it's said
said
now let's talk about adjectives and
adverbs
adjectives and adverbs are modifying
adjectives modify nouns and pronouns
they're usually descriptive
for example the yellow cat
yellow is the adjective and it describes
what kind of cat
adverbs modify or describe
verbs
adjectives and other adverbs
now let's talk about prepositions
prepositions are common words that when
used in a prepositional phrase describe
when and where
for example i go to the farmer's market
i go
to the farmer's market the prepositional
phrase is to the farmer's market that
explains where i go
now let's talk about using the
prepositions for
when let's use the same sentence as the
previous example
i go to the farmer's market i go to the
farmer's market on tuesday afternoons
the second prepositional phrase on
tuesday afternoon describe when i go to
the farmer's market
conjunctions join words phrases and
clauses
some conjunctions include and or
but and so
for example we have two separate
sentences
he rides his bike
he goes to the gym
we can combine those two sentences
together by using any of those
conjunctions that i previously mentioned
for example i could say he rides a spike
and he goes to the gym
when i use and i've combined both
sentences and i'm talking about two
actions that this person does these are
two separate phrases that we were able
to combine together or conjoin with a
conjunction
now let's talk about interjections they
are one two or three words that you can
put together that express emotion
for example i could say wow
to express surprise
i could say oh
no
to express disappointment or i could say
yay
to express happiness
the most basic english sentence
structure contains a subject and a
predicate
the subject includes a noun
or a pronoun
and any modifying words
the predicate includes the verb
and any modifying words
let's look at an example
he walks
he is the subject
walks is the predicate
let's add some words on to both the
subject and the predicate
the little boy
walks slowly to school
the little boy is the subject
walk slowly to school is the predicate
now let's talk about articles there are
three articles in english
the
a
and an
the is a definite article
it very specifically describes who you
are talking about
that you have already previously
mentioned in the statement
the girl
the boy
the dog
a and and are indefinite articles
they describe someone or something that
you have not previously mentioned before
and is used before vowel sounds
and apple
a is used before consonant sounds
a
cat
now let's talk about some common
mistakes that english learners make when
it comes to grammar for one many english
learners get confused with prepositions
this is because in their native language
the prepositions do not match with
prepositions in english i like to often
tell my students that it's about 50 50
sometimes with their native language
matching the prepositions with the
english language
in this case students simply have to
memorize prepositions and how they're
used in english
for example i often hear
i think in you instead of i think of you
or i think about you
i also hear i moved for a new house
instead of i move to a new house
people also add prepositions when there
doesn't need to be a preposition
included in their statement for example
someone could say i moved to the u.s
since three years ago the sense does not
need to be included in their statement
it simply is i moved to the u.s three
years ago
another common mistake that english
learners make is directly translating in
their head what they want to say from
their native language to the english
language a lot of the time their
translation will not work because the
words or phrases that they use or even
the grammar that they use in their
native language doesn't match in english
the tip that i have is not to focus on
directly translating something it's to
learn the english expressions or the
english phrases and especially the
english grammar
separate from your native language
another common mistake that english
learners make is forgetting to say the
correct plural form of nouns
for example
a lot of english learners tend to say
persons instead of people
persons are nice instead of people are
nice or they forget to conjugate the
verb correctly in its plural form for
example someone might say people is
great instead of people are great
another common mistake that english
learners make is not understanding or
getting confused about how to form the
negative statement in english
a double negative makes a positive in
english it does not make a negative
for example if you say
i don't understand nothing
that actually means i understand
everything totally different than what
the person means to say
the correct way to make this negative
statement is i don't understand anything
now let's take a quick true or false
quiz in order to test your knowledge
about english grammar
true or false
the word happily in this statement is an
adjective the boy happily drank his
juice
false happily is an adverb it modifies
drinks
it explains or describes how the boy
drank his juice
true or false
oh gross is a conjunction
false
it's an interjection
true or false
the word those in this statement is a
pronoun
those books belong to her
true
those is a demonstrative pronoun
true or false this statement is correct
the childs like to play together
false
the plural of child is children
so the correct way to say this statement
is the children like to play together
true or false this statement is correct
we ran five miles yesterday
false run is an irregular verb we ran
five miles yesterday
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