Teaching Knowledge Test Course
Module 1
Language and background to language learning and teaching
Part1
Unit 1 Grammar
Grammar describe how we combine , organise and change words and parts of words to make meaning . We use rules for this description.
Grammaris the ways that words can be put together in order to make sentences.
There are nine parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunction and exclamations.
Nouns :(countable, uncountable)to name people , places, things, qualities, ideas, or activities. To act as the subject/object of the verb.
Anounis a word such as `car', `love', or `Anne' which is used to refer to a person or thing.
Verbs:(transitive, intransitive)to show an action, state or experience
Averbis a word such as `sing', `feel', or `die' which is used with a subject to say what someone or something does or what happens to them, or to give information about them.
Adjectives:(comparative) to describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun or part of a sentencee.g.acoldday.
Anadjectiveis a word such as `big', `dead', or `financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
Acomparative adjectivecompares two things, e.g.He istallerthan she is.
Ademonstrative adjectiveshows whether something is near or far from the speaker, e.g.this(near),that(far).
An-ing/-ed adjectivedescribes things or feelings. An-ing adjectivedescribes things or people, e.g.Thebook is veryinteresting.An-ed adjectivedescribes feelings, e.g.I am veryinterestedin the book.
Apossessive adjectiveshows who something belongs to, e.g.my,our.
Asuperlative adjectivecompares more than two things, e.g.He isthe tallestboy in the class.
Adverbs:(of degree, manner, time) to describe or give more information about how, when or where something happens. ?To add information to adjectives , verbs, other adverbs or sentences.e.g.he workedquicklyandwell.
Anadverbis a word such as `slowly', `now', `very', `politically', or `fortunately' which adds information about the action, event, or situation mentioned in a clause.
Determiners:(possessive adjectives, articles, demonstrative adjectives, quantifiers) to make clear which noun is referred to or to give information about quantity.
In grammar, adetermineris a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are `a', `the', `some', `this', and `each'.
Prepositions:(of time, place, direction) to connect a noun, noun phrase or pronoun to another word or phrase
Aprepositionis a word such as `by', `for', `into', or `with' which usually has a noun group as its object.
Pronouns:(personal, possessive, relative, reflexive) to replace or refer to a noun or noun phrase just mentioned.
Apronounis a word that you use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun, often because the person or thing has been mentioned earlier. Examples are `it', `she', `something', and `myself'.
Conjunction:(of reason, addition, contrast) to join words, sentences or parts of sentences
In grammar, aconjunctionis a word or group of words that joins together words, groups, or clauses. In English, there are co-ordinating conjunctions such as `and' and `but', and subordinating conjunctions such as `although', `because', and `when'.
Exclamations:(of doubt, pain) to show a (strong)feeling- especially in informal spoken language.
Anexclamationis a sound, word, or sentence that is spoken suddenly, loudly, or emphatically and that expresses excitement, admiration, shock, or anger.
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Active voiceIn an active sentence, the subject of the verb usually does or causes the action, e.g.The captain scoredthe winninggoal.
2Passive voice
In a passive sentence, something is done to or happens to the subject of the sentence, e.g. Theyweretakento the airport by taxi. Seeactive voice.
2Clause
A clause generally consists of a subject and a finite verb relating to the subject and any other elements, e.g.object. A clause can be a full sentence or a part of a sentence.
Main clause
When the teacher arrived,the learners stopped talking.
Subordinate clause
When the teacher arrived,the learners stopped talking.
Relative clause
The learnerswho were sitting near the frontstood up.
2Modal verb
Amodal verbis a verb used with other verbs to show ideas such as ability or obligation or possibility. They includecan,must,will,should, e.g.Icanspeak French, but Ishouldstudy even harder.
2Phrase
A group of words which are often a part of a sentence rather than the whole sentence, e.g.the green car,onFridaymorningare phrases. Also a group of words that together have a particular meaning.
2Question tag
A phrase that is added to the end of a sentence to make it a question, or to check that someoneagrees with the statement just made, e.g. It’s very cold,isn’t it? It isn’t very far,is it?
2Tense
A form of the verb that shows whether something happens in the past, present or future.
Future with going to
I’m going to visitmy aunt on Sunday. It’sgoing torain.
Future with present continuous
He?is meetingJohn for dinner at eight tomorrow.
Future with present simple
The planeleavesat 9.00 next Saturday.
Future with will or shall
I’ll helpwith the cleaning. Itwill belovely and sunny tomorrow
Past continuous, progressive
I?was watchingTV all evening.
Past perfect continuous, progressive
I?had been studyingfor three hours so I felt tired.
Past perfect simple
After?I had phoned?Mary, I went out.
Past simple
I?went?on holiday to France last year.
Present continuous,progressive
I?am workingin London now.
Present perfect continuous, progressive
I?have been studyingfor three years.
Present perfect simple
I?have knownhim for a long time.
Present simple
He?drives?to work every day.
