Semantics 40 - La Gran Colombia University

 Nouns... Nouns represent persons, places, and things. There are two types of nouns, proper nound and common nouns. Proper nouns Name particular persons, places or things. there are usually unique and are capitalized in writting. Example: Dr Olsen, I chiro suzuki, sao paulo,china, the empire state building, harrold's. Common Nouns Refer to people, places or things but are not the names of particular individuals. Example: scientist, athete, city, country, building, department store. In common nouns is important to say that there are two types of common nouns, are count nouns and non count nouns. Count nonuns refer to things that you can count separatly. they can be singular or popular. here you can use the letters (a or an)   before count nouns. Example: one woman, nine planets, 1,2,3,4,5..., this sandwinch is delicious, some vegtables are tasty, that is an interesting question. Non count nouns   Refer to things that you can

SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOUNS Subject pronoun: The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that perform the action. The subject pronoun is the one that replace the subject of a sentence.   Examples:  -The cat is running fast. - It is running fast.  -Marie brought food for dinner.  -She brought food for dinner.  Object pronoun: Is a word that replaces the noun in a sentence, in this case is the object of a sentence that is affected by the subject. Examples:  - Jamie took Lilly to school  - Jamie took HER to school - Barb loves Alex and John - Barb loves them LETS PRACTICE! Part 1 In the gap after the sentence, write if you found subject or object pronoun. She likes pop music and go to the cinema.___________ They used to play soccer._______________ Clay gave them some food.__________________ Dave wants to go out with her.________________ He bring some cookies for Carrie._______________ We went to the theater

Adjetives. By: john camargo. An adjective is a word that is followed and modifies the noun. It can complement or quantify its size. It is words that named or indicate qualities, traits and properties of the names or nouns to which they accompany. Next we will see a table that show us the proper order of the adjectives: Image taken from google image: https://goo.gl/YR23mm Examples: 1.    My father is good. 2.    She gave me a plastic nife. 3.    My teacher is intelligent. 4.    We are happy. 5.    They are bad. 6.    She is very impolite. Lets´s practice¡ beautiful long red   an interesting old American   beautiful square wooden   big black   an   unusual   silver   a nice new woollen   a lovely sunny   1.At home there is a   ____________   table in the living roon. 2. I was offered  ____________  ring by my wife. 3. My father has knitted   ________  pullover for me. 4

 CONJUCTIONS :  conjunction   is a  part of speech  that connects  words ,  phrases , or  clauses  that are called the  conjuncts  of the conjoining construction. The term  discourse marker  is mostly used for conjunctions joining  sentences . This definition may overlap with that of other parts of speech, so what constitutes a "conjunction" must be defined for each  language . In general, a conjunction is an invariable  grammatical particle  and it may or may not stand between the items in a conjunction. Coordinating conjunctions:  Coordinating conjunctions , also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join, or coordinate, two or more items (such as words, main clauses, or sentences) of equal syntactic importance. In English, the acronym  FANBOYS  can be used to remember the coordinators  for ,  and ,  nor . Here are some examples of coordinating conjunctions in English and what they do: ·        For  – presents rationale ("They do not gambl