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Unit 2 provided an introduction to English grammar and parts of speech. It ran through a range of grammatical terms and provided examples of each. These included nouns (common, proper, compound, abstract, collective, countable and uncountable), adjectives (including comparative and superlative), articles (?a?, ?an? and ?the?), verbs (transitive and intransitive, the infinitive, auxiliary verbs, and past simple, past participle and present participle verb forms), adverbs, gerunds, pronouns (personal, possessive, reflexive and relative), prepositions and conjunctions.
Two things I learnt from this lesson that I hadn?t previously known or realised:
1. Adjectives and adverbs usually appear in a particular order.
For adjectives, this is:
size ? age ? colour ? material ? noun
For adverbs, it is:
place ? manner ? time
Adverbs are usually placed after the object of a transitive verb, or immediately after an intransitive verb. Adverbs of frequency are placed between the subject and the verb or between the auxiliary verb and the verb.
While I didn?t consciously know this grammar construct, the sentences in which it is demonstrated seem more ?right? than those in which it is flaunted, which is illustrative of how a native English speaker usually understands grammar instinctively, and without realising.
2. That regular verbs can be identified as such because both the past simple and past participles end in ?ed. And that there appear to be a lot more irregular than regular verbs in English!
