BSEE 23 FINALS

• Grammar, a system of rules that gives the foundation for producing acceptable formal expression, is a very important tool in language learning.
• Grammar dictates the standard in the way language is communicated.
• Understanding grammatical categories can enhance one’s communicative and analytical ability.
• Incorrect: She sings more louder than her friend.
• Correct: She sings louder than her friend.
• Avoid double comparisons by using both “more” and “-er” or “most” and “-est” together (faster and not more faster, harder and not more harder).
• Teachers of the English language must be fully aware of grammar and its usage to become effective teachers.
• A noun is a part of speech (word class) that names or identifies a person, place, thing, quality, idea, or activity.
• Most nouns have both a singular and plural form, can be preceded by an article, adjectives, and can serve as the head of a noun phrase.
• A noun or noun phrase can function as a subject, direct object, indirect object, complement, appositive, or object of the preposition.
• Nouns are usually the first words that small children learn.
• An abstract noun is an idea or concept that does not exist in the real world.
• A compound noun is a noun that is composed of two or more words.
• A concrete noun is a noun that refers to a physical thing, person, or place — something or someone that can be perceived with the five senses (touch, hearing, sight, smell, and taste).
• Members of the board are acting separately.
• Treated as one group of players with one mission.
• Possessive nouns are the nouns that show ownership or a direct connection.
• Count nouns or “countable nouns” are the nouns that can be counted.
• Mass nouns or “uncountable nouns” are those that come in a state or quantity that is impossible to count.
• The yellow “team” is playing well.
• Examples of nouns include person, place, animal, thing, idea, food, and class types such as proper noun, common noun, and collective noun.
• A proper noun is used to refer to the specific names of a person, place, thing, event, or idea and is always “capitalized” no matter where they fall in a sentence.
• Proper nouns may include real or fictional characters or settings.
• A common noun names any person, place, thing, or idea and is a generic name for one item in a class or group, which can be preceded by an article like a, an, and the.
• Adverbs of time are used to tell the reader when some action is occurring and include words that refer to specific times and more general time periods.
• There are many branches of Science including Chemistry and Biology.
• The clown skillfully made animals out of balloons.
• Sarah Geronimo's voice has not aged and she can still hit high notes like in her younger years.
• Adverbs of manner describe how a verb, or an action is performed or how something happens, and include adverbs that end in -ly or those that are formed from adjectives.
• The effects of the economic crash are still felt in various aspects of life, including sports, gardening, and relationships.
• Katharina wisely took an extra umbrella with her.
• JC plays various sports including football, volleyball, and badminton.
• The mango tree planted by JC's mom has grown really big and has been giving them mangoes every month of April.
• An adverb of manner cannot be placed between a verb and its direct object and must be put either before the verb or at the end of the clause.
• JC's mom loves his sister more than him.
• Adverbs of place describe the location or the place where an action is taking place and are used to answer the question “where.”
• Shakira bravely rescued a kitten from a tree.
• Adverbs of degree are used to discuss the degree or intensity of an adjective, an action, or another adverb and are used to answer the question “to what extent.”
• Unlike a proper noun, a common noun is “not capitalized” (unless it is at the beginning of a sentence or part of a title of books, songs, etc.).
• Nonrestrictive appositive gives information that is not needed to identify the preceding noun or noun phrase and is separated from the surrounding text with commas.