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April 2007 - Issue 002

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SUMMARY

Grammar: 

Uses of the Simple Present Tense

Phonology:

Spelling Patterns 

Spelling-to-sound correspondence

Writing:

Parts of speech

Words: 

More Chat Codes

Proverbs and sayings

Famous quotations.

 

Uses of the Simple Present Tense

Use / Function Example Time
Habit/routine My sister usually gets up early in the morning. general time
Instructions You turn right at this corner and you’ll see the post office. general time
Public timetable/schedule The last train to York leaves at 9.50 p.m. general time
General truths/laws of nature Water freezes at 0° C. general time
Permanent situations in the present Susan lives in Canada with her family. general time
Sports commentary Beckham wins the ball and scores a goal. Present; time of speaking
Headlines – present events Brazil celebrates Carnival. Present; time of speaking
Headlines – past events Tiger Woods wins Masters. past
Personal timetable/schedule He finishes his exams on Tuesday. future
Future time clauses He’ll phone us as soon as he gets there. future
Jokes A man walks into a shop to buy a Barbie doll for…… no time
Fictional plots Mary leaves her husband and runs away with Thomas. no time
Exclamatory sentences with “Here..!” “There…!” “Here comes the bride!” ;  “There goes my money!” Present; time of speaking
 
 
 
 

Phonology tips

Spelling patterns

Spelling-to-sound  correspondence

The symbol "•" stands for an intervening consonant. The letter sequences are in order of frequency with the most common first.

Long sound / Short sound  / I /
e

evening - be

i

bit - six - sit - king 

 y

city

ie

give

ee

see - feed - sheep

ae

damage

ea 

sea - seat - mea

y

myth

e

cede - Pete 

ie

mischief

ie

machine

ia

carriage

ie

field 

iee

sieve

  ei

deceit  

y

myth

ei

deceive 

ui

build

-ey

key  

ei

counterfeit

ae / ay

Caesar - quay

ee

been

eo - oe

people - amoeba

e

pretty

is

debris  

ia

carriage

eip

receipt  

u

busy

iee

relieve - believe

o

women

i

ski  

ue

minute

ea

leave  

eig

sovereign

eigh

Raleigh

ue

minute

    iee

sieve

If you cannot see the phonetic symbols properly you have to install a Unicod IPA Font on your compute. You can download one from SIL International site 

Parts of Speech

verb

 A verb  asserts something about the subject of the sentence and expresses actions, events, or states of being. Verbs can be transitive, intransitive, auxiliary, modal, finite, non-finite, etc.

noun

A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.

Types of nouns: proper, common, concrete, abstract, countable, non-countable, collective

pronoun

A pronoun can replace a noun, another pronoun, noun phrases and perform most of the functions of a noun.

Personal pronouns (subjective, objective, possessive)

Demonstrative pronouns: "this, that, these, and those''.

Interrogative pronouns: "who, whom, which, what''.

Relative pronouns:  "who, whom, that, which.''

Indefinite pronouns:  all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody, and someone.

Reflexive pronouns: "myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves.''

An intensive pronoun is a pronoun used to emphasize or highlight an attribute.

adjective

An adjective modifies a noun  a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.

adverb

An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a complete clause by indicating manner, time, place, cause, or degree.

preposition

A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. . The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

conjunction

Conjunctions links words, phrases and clauses.

Co-ordinating conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," or "yet")

Subordinating conjunctions ("after," "although," "as," "because," "before," "how," "if," "once," "since," "than," "that," "though," "till," "until," "when," "where," "whether," and while.") 

Correlative conjunctions always appear in pairs – they  link equivalent sentence elements.  ("both...and," "either...or," "neither...nor,", "not only...but also," "so...as," and "whether...or." )

interjection

An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence. (Ouch,Oh no, Hey! , eh!, good lord!)

More Chat Codes 

88

Love and kisses

QSL

Reply

NRN

No Reply Necessary

BBN

Bye Bye Now

SYS

See You Soon

PM

Private Message

BWL

Bursting With Laughter

TNX

Thanks

TNT

Till Next Time

L8R

Later

KOL

Kiss On Lips

YM

Young Man

LY4E

Love You Forever

WB

Welcome Back

YL

Young Lady

Proverbs and saying

Where there's a will, there's a way.

A person with determination will find a way of doing something.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You can't make old people change their ideas or ways of doing things.

 

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Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
 

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