Unit 2

WORKSHEET – UNIT 2

Task 1 - Write 5 examples of each of the following:

Countable noun: Car, apple, table, cat, phone


Uncountable noun: poultry, beef, pork, veal, love.


Adjective: red, long, thick, wet, hard.


Adverb: quickly, silently, high, once, either.


Preposition: by, over, under, besides, since.


Verb: work, sleep, eat, cook, clean.


Pronoun: I, we, you, he, she, it


Infinitive: to run, to walk, to go, to sleep, to drive.


Gerund: Running, walking, going, sleeping, driving.


Comparative adjective: taller, smaller, lighter, bigger, better.


Superlative adjective: tallest, smallest, lightest, biggest, best.


Article (3 only): a, an, the.


Conjunction: as, until, and, or, yet.

Task 2 – Identify the parts of speech in the following sentence:

I usually go swimming with my best friend and his rather unusual girlfriend.

a) I - pronoun

b) usually - Adverb

c) go - verb

d) swimming - gerund

e) with - preposition

f) my - possessive pronoun

g) best - adjective

h) friend - noun

i) and - conjunction

j) his - possessive pronoun

k) rather - adverb

l) unusual - adjective

m) girlfriend - noun

Task 3 – State the differences between the following, and give an example of each:

a) Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives: used to describe person place or things.
Ex/: the car is RED. The word “RED” is and adjective describing the noun “car”.

Adverb: modifies any other part of language verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. EXEPT NOUNS!!!
Ex/: the red car is QUICKLY approaching. The word “QUICKLY” is and adverb describing the verb “approaching”.

b) Nouns and pronouns

Noun: a noun is a person, place, thing or idea.
Ex/: Dorchester is located in Boston. The word “Dorchester” is a noun.
Pronoun: a pronoun substitutes a NOUN or NOUN phrase.
Mary and Tony went to San Tarpio’s for pizza. The words “Mary and Tony” are people so they are NOUNS. You can replace these NOUNS with a pronoun.
Ex/: THEY went to San Tarpio’s for pizza. The word “THEY” is the PRONOUN replacing the nouns Mary and Tony.

Task 4 – Explain the following parts of speech as you would to a student. An example sentence would help to clarify your explanation:

a) Conjunctions – is a part of speech that connects two words, phrases or clauses together. When you have a sentence that needs another part in order to give it more sense, you use a conjunction to unite them.
Ex/: I open the wine bottle WITH the wine opener.

b) Gerunds – is the verb’s action noun. It indicates that the action or verb is happening NOW.
Ex/: I am WALKING. This means that the action (walk) is happening NOW.

c) Verbs – a verb is an action or a state. Any action is a verb. Words that indications actions are verbs, run, walk, swim are all verbs.
The are two kinds:
Transitive: is a verb that is followed directly by the object.
Ex/: we SWIM in the pool. Swim is located right before the object of the sentence “in the pool”.
Intransitive: is a verb that isn’t followed directly by the object of the sentence.
Ex/: the animals sleep. Sleep, the action in the sentence isn’t followed by object.

d) Comparative adjectives – is the form of an adjective which denotes the degree by which a noun has a quality greater or than another noun. It is used with a conjunction.
The form is simple; add the termination ER to the end of the adjective, ADJECTIVE + ER + Conjunction
Ex/: Carl is smaller than Tom. Small is the adjective. You add the termination ER and finished the comparison by linking it to the object with a conjunction.

e) Prepositions – Show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence.
There are three major categories:
Time: an, at, on, before, in etc…
Movement: out, in, by, through, over, etc…
Place: on top of, besides, next, under, etc…

f) Superlative adjectives – is the form of an adjective which denotes that a noun is greater than any other noun.
The form is simple; add the termination EST to the end of the adjective, ADJECTIVE + EST
Ex/: Carl is the smallest. Small is the adjective. You add the termination EST, indicating that nobody is smaller than Carl.

Task 5 – What do articles do in a sentence? Give examples of your own.

An article is a word you combine with a noun to indicate the type of reference made by the noun.
Definite article: (English the):
Is used before singular and plural nouns that refer to a particular member of a group.
Ex/: The dog is sleeping in THE sofa.

In general do not use THE before NAMES!!
Ex/: The Sarah is a good person.
The china is a big country.

Indefinite article (English a, an):
Indefinite article is used before singular nouns. A in used for nouns that start with consonants. AN in used for nouns that start with vowels.
Ex/:
The cat is a Persian
The player is an amateur.