Basic Grammar

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English basic grammar

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  • Form: If the following word starts with a consonant sound, then we say a. A house, a man, a union, If the following word starts with a vowel sound, then we say an. An uncle, an umbrella, half an hour,..

    A + a consonant

    An + vowel (u,e,o,a,i)

  • Use: Before a singular countable noun when it is mentioned for the first time and represent no particular person or thing:There was a car outside the gate. He wants to buy an ice-cream. Before a singular countable noun which is used as an example of class of things:A child needs love.An egg is fragile. Used A with certain expression of quantity: A lot of / a great deal of / a couple / a dozen.

  • Name of professions: My father is an engineer. She is a teacher. In express of price, speed, ratio,.. 4 times a day, 60 kilometer an hour, 3p a kilo,

  • Omission of A/An Before uncountable nouns and plural nouns. Before name of meals.

  • An eggAn islandA home partyA onion

  • An appleShe is a teacherAn hourA European

  • Form: THE is the same for singular and plural and for all genders:The boy The boysThe girl The girls

  • THE River

    Ocean,seas

    Mountain Range

    Lakes The best

    The more

    In the morning On the left At the bottom At the top In the east In the west In the north In the centre On the coast On the border

    Earth

    Sun

    Moon

    Sky

    StarsSOME PLACE NAMESSUPERLATIVEFORMTHE ONLY THINGOTHER PHRASESWITH THE

  • The boy in corner is my friend.When it is clear in the situation which thing or person we mean. The small shopkeeper, The top offcial, The homeless, The young,..THE + ADJ represents a class of persons:(rich, poor, old, young, deaf, blind, etc.) The Back Choir, The Beatles,etc,THE + musical instrument

  • Not used THE Lake Cities Hills Island Countries Mountain Continent Roads Streets Sugar is sweet. Oranges are greenuntil they ripen. At home At school At university At work In bed In hospital In prison On holiday At nightSOME PLACENAMESPEOPLE OR THINGSIN GENERALOTHER PHRASESWITHOUT THE

  • NOTE Singular Lakes

    Lake Geneva

    USE THE WITHDONT USE THEWITH Ocean,rivers,seasGulfs,plural lake.

    The Red Sea The Great Lakes The Atlantic Ocean etc.

  • NOTE

    USE THE WITHDONT USE THEWITH Mountain The Andes,The Rocky Mountain. Mounts

    Mount McKinley Earth, Moon

    The earth is round Planets, constellations

    Venus, Mars