Grammar

TKT Part 1 Class Unit 2 Grammar

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Key concepts: Parts of speech

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Pronouns Demonstrative pronoun, e.g. this, that. Object pronoun, e.g. him. Personal pronoun, e.g. I (subject pronoun), me (object pronoun) Possessive pronoun, e.g. Mine Reflexive pronoun, e.g. myself Relative pronoun, e.g. which

 Grammar rules also describe grammatical structures which are the arrangement of words into patterns which have meaning.  Grammatical structures are described in terms of form and use.  Form refers to the grammatical parts that make up the structure and the order in which they occur.  Use refers to the meaning that the structure is used to express.

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 Conjunctions: of reason, addition, contrast  Prepositions: of time, place directions

 Exclamations: of doubt, pain  Determiners: - possessive adjectives - articles - demonstrative adjectives - quantifiers

• Examples:

Grammar helps language to form words too with affixes.

 Prefixes un-, pre-, dis-, im-, a-, circum-, con-, de-, mis-, Inter-, …  Suffixes-acy, -ance, -ence, -ant, -ent, -tion, -er, -ful, …

Parts of speech: a summary

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