Teach English in Schefferville - TESOL Courses

A teacher should be able to grasp and properly explain the most common areas of grammar to the students. Nouns are used to Name people, places, animals, qualities, and states, and are divided into five main types: 1.) Common nouns, like person or city (which are not capitalized). 2.) Proper nouns, like Jenny or San Francisco (which are capitalized). 3.) Compound nouns are two nouns joined to make a new noun, like Cable car. 4.) Abstract nouns are things we experience as an idea and cannot touch, like freedom. 5.) Collective nouns treat a group of individuals as if they are one, like horde. These are then divided into nouns we can count (countable) and those we can?t (uncountable), like car and wisdom, respectively. There are however nouns that can be both depending on how they are used in the sentence. Adjectives are the words used to describe the nouns, for example pretty (adjective) girl (noun) and may often be used in clusters of two or three like this: She is a funny and pretty, or She is funny, pretty, and smart. While the order in which the adjectives should be placed in a sentence is not absolute, people usually conform to size-age-color-material-noun. This brings us to comparative and superlative adjectives with the former being used when comparing two different people or things (Matt is smarter than John.) while the latter is used when comparing one person or thing to all others (Matt is the smartest person in the world.). Articles are words used with a noun to indicate when we are referring to any member of a group or to a specific member of a group. Articles will usually fall into two types: definitive (the) which indicates a specific member of the group, and the indefinite (a and an) which indicate any member. Verbs are words used to convey different actions and states of being but are all either transitive or intransitive or both at the same time and have four principal forms: The base form (stop), the past simple (stopped), the past participle (stopped) and the present participle (stopping). Transitive verbs are verbs that should be followed directly by an object (Matt reads (verb) books (object) while intransitive verbs cannot be followed directly by an object (Sleep or Speak) and are often used in relation to time. All verbs have a base form; however when preceded by the word ?to? they then become infinitives which refers to the action as a whole. Auxiliary verbs (be, do, and have) also exist to help form a tense or an expression by combining with present or past participles or infinitives of verbs and are used simply to help form a structure. Adverbs are words that are used to add meaning or information to the verb however they may also be used to modify adjectives and other adverbs. There are five main types of adverbs: Manner (quietly), Place (below), Time (soon), degree (very), and Frequency (always), with some other notable types being: Comment/Attitude (surely), Linking (firstly), Viewpoint (morally), Adding/Limiting (also, only). A Gerund is the ?-ing? form of a verb that is used as the subject or object of a sentence and is used the same way as a noun (I like to go swimming). Pronouns are words used as substitutes for more precise nouns of which there are four types: Personal (I, me, and you), Possessive (Mine, yours, his, hers), Reflexive (myself, yourself, and himself) and Relative (who, which, and what). Prepositions are used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence to establish a time (at, on, Before), position (in, at, on) or movement (from, to, through). And finally, Conjunctions are words used join words of the same class like nouns (Jack and Jill), Adjectives (Faster and Stronger) or join parts of sentences (I won?t quit until I have a car).