In this lesson, you will learn about:
the uses and formation of: Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Progressive tenses
In this lesson, you will learn about:
The uses and formation of: Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive tenses
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What the broad category of affixes is
How affixes (prefixes and suffixes) can change the meaning of certain words
What word families are
In this lesson, you will learn about:
Where objects are positioned in a sentence in the English language
How direct objects differ from indirect objects
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What constitutes a phrase in the English language
About 5 different types of phrases: noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, gerund phrases and participle phrases.
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What the category of “determiners” comprises of
The three categories of articles in common use
The different types of determiners
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What the difference between adverbs and adverbials is.
About the types of adverbs we distinguish between:
Adverbs of time, of place, of manner, of degree, and of frequency
How comparing adverbs differs from comparing adjectives
How adverbs are formed
The position of adverbs in relation to other words in sentences (including fronted adverbials)
In this lesson, you will learn about:
The types of adjectives: descriptive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, positive, comparative and superlative
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What types of nouns we distinguish between:
Action verbs: including transitive and intransitive
No-Action verbs
Linking verbs and copular verbs
Auxiliary verbs
Modal verbs
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What types of nouns we distinguish between:
Proper, common, material, countable/uncountable nouns
Collective, concrete and abstract nouns
Pronouns
Personal and possessive pronouns
Compound nouns
Possessive pronouns
In this lesson, you will learn about:
how the plural forms differ from their singular counterparts
the rules of forming regular plurals
which nouns are considered to have irregular plural forms
In this lesson, you will learn about:
the definition of a letter
graphemes and phonemes
when letters are capitalised in English
which letters are vowels
which letters are consonants