Grammar: The Basics DESINGED BY Sunil Kumar Research Scholar/ Food Production Faculty Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management, MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY, ROHTAK Haryana- 124001 INDIA Ph. No. 09996000499 email: [email protected] , [email protected]linkedin:- in.linkedin.com/in/ ihmsunilkumar facebook: www.facebook.com/ ihmsunilkumar webpage: chefsunilkumar.tripod.com
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Grammar: The BasicsDESINGED BY
Sunil KumarResearch Scholar/ Food Production FacultyInstitute of Hotel and Tourism Management,MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY, ROHTAKHaryana- 124001 INDIA Ph. No. 09996000499email: [email protected] , [email protected] linkedin:- in.linkedin.com/in/ihmsunilkumarfacebook: www.facebook.com/ihmsunilkumar webpage: chefsunilkumar.tripod.com
This or That ?
A vase or two faces?
Which image do you see?
A young girl’s face or an old woman’s face?
Sentences Construction
Objective
Understand the difference between SVO / SOV
Use the rule effectively for Sentence construction
Sentence Structure
Subject +Verb+Object
I + eat + food
Subject +Object +Verb
I + food + eat
Gamer Grammar
Objective
Identify the commonly made mistakes while
speaking in English
To increase fluency in English
Building Blocks
Parts of Parts of
SpeechSpeech
AdjectiveAdjective
AdverbAdverbPrepositionPreposition
ConjunctionConjunction VerbVerb
InterjectionInterjection
NounNounPronounPronoun
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Noun: is a word used as the name, animal, place, or thing.
Types Of Nouns Common Noun Proper Noun Collective Noun Abstract Noun Countable / Uncountable Nouns
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Common Noun
Is a name given in common to
every person or thing of the
same class or kind.
E.g.City, man, boat, and radio
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Proper NounName of a specific person, place
or thing.
E.g.
Eiffel Tower, India,
Mr. Will Smith, Nokia
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Collective NounName of a number ( or collection) of persons or things taken together and spoken of as a whole.
E.g. A Crowd -a collection of people An Army - collection of soldiers
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Abstract NounIs usually the name of a quality, action, or state.
E.g. Quality - kindness, darkness, honesty Action - laughter, theft State - sleep, sickness
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Countable Noun (or countables) are the names of objects, people, etc. that we can count.
E.g. book, pen, apple, boy
Uncountable noun (or uncountables) are the names of things which cannot count.
E.g. milk, sugar, gold, oil
Parts Of Speech
Noun
Lisa works as a programmer at Microsoft.
Let's have lunch at McDonalds. Mc Donalds Mc Donalds
Parts Of Speech
Noun
The sun sheds it’s beams on rich and poor alike.
Edward was a great king. The rose smells sweet. A flock of sheep is passing by. George was a brave soldier.
Name, Place, Animal, Thing
Fun time Lets play Name, Place, Animal, Thing with a difference
Proper Noun
Common Noun
Collective Noun
Abstract Noun
Peter Postman Poultry Prayer
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
Pronoun: is a word used instead of a noun.
E.g. Tim is absent, because he is ill. This book is mine. It is doubtful whether he will come for the party. Bob is a kind boy. He has lent his bicycle to Alice.
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
E.g. Do you think Mary is pretty? I think Mary is
beautiful.
With pronouns, we can say:
Do you think Mary is pretty? I think she is beautiful.
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
Personal Pronoun: I, we, you, he, (she, it), are called Personal Pronouns because they stand for three persons.
E.g. The person speaking –This is my book The person spoken to – Those are your books The person spoken of- That is her book
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
Indefinite Pronoun Refers to noun that are indefinite.
E.g. One evening a beggar came to my door. Somebody stole the mangoes.
Anybody
Each
Either
None
Someone
One
Few
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
Relative Pronoun- such as that, who, which, whose and whom which give extra information about the subject.
E.g. The woman who interviewed me was very
friendly. I can't stand dogs that bark loudly.
This, That
These, Those
Who, Whom
Whose, Which
What
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
Reflexive Pronoun Pronouns combined with –self or
–selves to emphasize the subject of the verb.
E.g.
I hurt myself.
Myself
Yourself
Himself
Ourselves
Themselves
Parts Of Speech
Pronoun
Person and Number Subjective Possessive Subjective
First Person Singular I Mine Me
First Person Plural We Ours Us
Second Person Singular You Yours You
Second Person Plural You Yours You
Third Person Singular He / she / it His / hers / its Him / her / it
Third Person Plural They Theirs They
Lie detector
Lets have some fun
I love Chinese
Food
I am born in New York
I love scuba diving
Parts Of Speech
Adjectives
An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun, pronoun or another adjective. An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun. Adjectives can be used before a noun or after certain verbs. We can often use two or more adjectives together.
E.g. A big car I like Chinese food It is a tough decision A beautiful young French lady
Parts Of Speech
Adjectives
Adjective Patterns: Adjectives can come before noun: a new car Adjectives can come after verbs: such as be, become,
seem, look, etc.: that car looks fast They can be modified by adverbs: a very expensive car
Name Chain Fun Time
Hi! I’m Witty
William
Hi! This is my friend
Witty William And I am Energetic
Esther
Hi! That’s Witty William, this is
Energetic Esther and I am Helpful Henry
Parts Of Speech
Verb
Verb: is a word that tells something about a person or thing.
Auxiliary Verb: ‘To Do’, ‘Be’ and ‘Have’ are the English auxiliary verbs / helping verbs used in a negative structure, a question or to show tenses.
Modal Verb: Modal verbs are used to express ideas such as possibility, intention, obligation and necessity.
E.g.
Can, Could, May, Might, Will, Would, Shall, Should
Parts Of Speech
Verb
Regular Verb: A regular verb is one that follows the pattern of taking -ed for the past simple and past participles.
E.g. walk / walked / walked
Irregular Verb: An irregular verb is one that does not take the -ed ending for the Past Simple and Past Simple forms. Some verbs do not change.
Parts Of Speech
Verb
Irregular VerbsBase Form Past Tense Past Participle
Shut Read
Shut Read
Shut Read
Sit Build
Sat Built
Sat Built
Know See
Knew Saw
Known Seen
Types of Verbs
Parts Of Speech
Verb
Characteristics of Verbs Verbs usually come after the subject of the sentence.
E.g. Chris paints well.
Verbs must agree in person (first, second, etc.) and number (singular and plural) with the subject of the sentence.
E.g. She sings sweetly.
They sing sweetly.
Parts Of Speech
Adverb
Adverb - An adverb is a word that tells us more about a verb. An adverb "qualifies" or "modifies" a verb. But adverbs can also modify adjectives, or even other adverbs.
E.g. The man ran quickly. Tara is really beautiful. The Cell phone works very well.
Parts Of Speech
Adverb
Characteristics of Adverb1. Function
The main job of an adverb is to modify (give more information about) verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.Modify a verb:- John speaks loudly. (How does John speak?)- Mary lives locally. (Where does Mary live?)- She never smokes. (When does she smoke?)(In the following examples, the adverb is in red and the word that it modifies is in purple.)
Parts Of Speech
Adverb
2. Form Many adverbs end in -ly.
E.g. quickly, softly, strongly, honestly, interestingly. But not all words that end in -ly are adverbs.
E.g. "Friendly", is an adjective. Some adverbs have no particular form.
E.g. well, fast, very, never, always, often, still
Parts Of Speech
Adverb
3. PositionAdverbs have three main positions in the sentence: Front (before the subject):
- Now we will study adverbs.
Middle (between the subject and the main verb):- We often study adverbs.
End (after the verb or object):- We study adverbs carefully.
Dumbverb
Lets have some fun Enact the given adverbs while the class guesses the
same.
E.g. Harry and Sally dance gracefully.
Parts Of Speech
Prepositions
Prepositions: are words that we can use to indicate time, place and space.
PREPOSITIONS
Period/Point of TimeDuring
ThroughoutAt
PositionIn, Under, Over, Beside,
Between, Opposite,Among, Between
DirectionTowards
PastAround
Parts Of Speech
Prepositions
Commonly used PrepositionsAboard About Above Across After
Against Along Among Around At
Before Behind Below Beneath Beside
Between Beyond By Down During
Except For From Into Like
Of On Over Since To
Within In Up Over Off
Towards Under Until Upon With
Parts Of Speech
Prepositions
We went to school on Monday.
My plane stopped at Washington and New Jersey and arrived in New York two hours late.
Lord of the Ad world
Fun Time
Identify slogans with Prepositions in them
E.g.
Lets go in an ALTO – Maruti
King of good times - Kingfisher Kingfisher
Parts Of Speech
Conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions - are used to join two parts of a sentence
that are grammatically equal. The two
parts may be single words or clauses.
E.g. Jack and Jill went up the hill.
The water was warm but I didn't go swimming.
F – For
A – And
N – Nor
B – But
O – Or
Y – Yet
S - So
Parts Of Speech
Conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions - A word or words used to
connect unequal parts of a sentence.
E.g.
I went swimming, although it was cold.
Since, Because,
If, After, Until,
Although, Before,
As Though, Though,
When, Unless
As
Parts Of Speech
Conjunctions
Correlative Conjunctions – A pair of conjunctions used to show a comparison. (They are also known as paired conjunctions)
E.g.
Not only is she rich, but also intelligent.
Both-and
Either-or
Neither-nor
Since-therefore
If-then
Not only-but also
Conjingle Fun time
And
Also
ButNor
SoFor
Parts Of Speech
Interjection
Interjection: is a big name for a little word. Interjections are short exclamations like Hello!, Bravo!, Alas! or Ah! They have no real grammatical value but we use them quite often, usually more in speaking than in writing. When interjections are inserted into a sentence, they have no grammatical connection to the sentence. An interjection is followed by an exclamation mark (!) when written.
Alas !
Parts Of Speech
Interjection
E.g. "Hey ! look at that!"
(calling attention ) "Hi ! What's new?"
(expressing greeting ) "Well ! what did he say?"
(introducing a remark )
Well ! what did he
say?
Hi ! What's new?
Subjects and Verbs
Objective
Identify the correct usage of Subject and Verb in a sentence
Identify the correct usage of Subjects and Verbs while speaking in English
Subjects and Verbs
Verb: The part of speech that expresses action, or state of being.
Subject: The part which names the person or thing we are speaking about in a sentence.
Subjects and Verbs
Subject and Verb Agreement
The Verb agrees with the Subject in Number and
Person
E.g. Sam and Harry are friends.
Subjects and Verbs
Harry Potter is an interesting book.
Every boy and girl is ready to run for the marathon.
Harry Potter
Articles
Objective
Identify the mechanisms to use articles appropriately.
Articles
Articles: are Determiners.
Types Of Articles
Indefinite – A / AN Definite – THE
Articles
Indefinite Article (A) A dog is a faithful animal.
A man is known by the company he keeps
Articles
Indefinite Article (AN)
An Apple
An Honest Man
Articles
Definite Article ( THE)
Lets go to the Golf Club.
The Solar System.
Articles
Lets have fun
Identify articles in the songs
(Clips to be added)
Tenses
Objective
Identify the correct usage of Tense in a sentence
Identify the correct usage of Tense while speaking in English
Tenses
The Tense of a verb shows the time of action or event.
Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in language.
Tenses
There are three main Tenses:
Present Tense: a verb that refers to the present time. E.g. I write a letter.
Past Tense: a verb that refers to the past time.
E.g. I wrote a letter.
Future Tense: a verb that refers to the future time. E.g. I will write a letter.