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Home Vocabulary - There is and There Are It is my House. In this link you will find more words: https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/ vocabulary -lesson-home.php Watch this There is / there are The choice between the phrases  there is  and  there are  at the beginning of a sentence is determined by the noun that follows it. Use  there is  when the noun is singular (“There is a cat”). Use  there are  when the noun is plural (“There are two cats”). 1. Complete the questions for the  nouns  in parentheses using Are there…? or Is there…? a. (many people) at the party?  Are there many people at the party? b. (a man) in the kitchen? c. (two toothbrushes) in the bathroom? d. (a rug) on the floor? e. (a pool) in the apartment building? f. (many houses) on the street? g. (children) in the classroom?

Coordinating Conjunctions How to use conjunctions? Now that you learned about simple, compound and complex sentences, you will review and practice the  coordinating conjunctions.  Do you remember? The Coordinating Conjunction And ,  but ,  for ,  nor ,  or ,  so , and  yet —these are the seven coordinating conjunctions. To remember all seven, you might want to learn one of these acronyms:  FANBOYS ,  YAFNOBS , or  FONYBAS . F  = for A  = and N  = nor B  = but O  = or Y  = yet S  = so Y  = yet A  = and F  = for N  = nor O  = or B  = but S  = so F  = for O  = or N  = nor Y  = yet B  = but A  = and S  = so Coordinating conjunctions connect words,  phrases , and  clauses . Look at the examples that follow: The bowl of squid eyeball stew is hot  and  delicious. The squid eyeball stew ...

The words  some  and  any  are used for countable and uncountable  nouns . In general, we could say that  some means  a few / a little  and  any  means  none  in negative clauses or  a few / a little  in questions. Positive Clauses In positive clauses, we usually use  some . Example: I have bought  some  bread. I have bought  some  apples. Negative Clauses In negative clauses, we use  any . Note, however, that  any  alone is not a negative - it must be  not ... any Example: I have  not  bought  any  bread. I have  not  bought  any  apples. Questions In questions, we usually use  any . Example: Have you bought  any  bread? Have you bought  any  apples? Compound Words with some & any Some & any can also be part of compound words such as: something  /...

Countable & Uncountable! Countable and uncountable  nouns Nouns  can be either  countable  or  uncountable . Countable  nouns  (or count  nouns ) are those that  refer  to something that can be counted. They have both singular and plural forms (e.g.  cat/cats ;  woman/women ;  country/countries ). In the singular, they can be  preceded  by  a  or  an . Most  nouns  come into this  category . A smaller number of  nouns  do not typically refer to things that can be counted and so they do not regularly have a plural form: these are known as uncountable  nouns  (or mass  nouns ). Examples include:  rain, flour, earth, wine , or  wood . Uncountable  nouns  can't be preceded by  a or  an . Many  abstract nouns  are typically uncountable, e.g.  happiness, truth, darkness, humour . So...

Singular and Plural Nouns 1 or 2??? Singular and Plural  Nouns A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. Usually, the first  page  of a grammar  book  tells you about  nouns .  Nouns  give  names  of concrete or abstract  things  in our  lives . As  babies  learn " mom ," " dad ," or " milk " as their first  word ,  nouns  should be the first  topic  when you study a foreign  language .  For the plural form of most  nouns , add s. bottle – bottles cup – cups pencil – pencils desk – desks sticker – stickers window – windows For  nouns  that end in ch, x, s, or s sounds, add es. box – boxes watch – watches moss – mosses bus – buses For  nouns  ending in f or fe, change f to v and add es. wolf – wolves wife – wives leaf – leaves life – lives Nouns  ending in vowels like y or o do not have definit...

Subject & Object Pronouns They or Us First of all see this image, we will talk ONLY about Subject and Object pronouns Pronouns replace  nouns . Take a look at these examples: Sara likes pizza. She likes pizza. In the second sentence, “she” is the same as “Sara”. Subject and object pronouns replace  nouns  that are either subjects or objects. First, let’s review subjects and objects: What are subject and objects? Subjects go at the start of the sentence. They do the action: Dave plays baseball. Mary live in Toronto. Objects go at the end of the sentence. They receive the action. Dave has a bicycle. Mary likes cookies. Subject pronouns replace subjects, so they are normally at the start of the sentence: He plays baseball. She lives in Toronto. They like pizza. We want more coffee. Object pronouns replace objects, so they go after the verb: Dave has it....

The use of Because 1. Add ‘s where needed: Michael’s brother has a nice car. He eating bread. I am talking to Jim sister on Facebook. Shelly playing with her dog outside. What the problem? My friend name is Dan. Steve at home today. He isn’t at school. He sick. How  the weather  today? Who your best friend? It easy to ride a bicycle. Betty is my grandmother name. What Chris doing? Because ,  because of  and  cos ,  cos of Because  introduces clauses of cause and reason. It is a subordinating conjunction. This means that the clause it introduces is a subordinate clause, which needs a main clause  to make it complete. We use a comma when the subordinate clause comes before the main clause: [main clause] Everyone left early   because   [subordinate clause] Mark and Helen had an argument . [subordinate clause] Because  they were so tired ,  [main clause] they went to bed at 9 pm ...

The Apostrophe and S Apostrophe & S ('s) The English  apostrophe s  and  s apostrophe  cause a lot of problems, even for native speakers. This lesson’s task is to help you learn about possessives and contractions that need apostrophes and plurals that don’t. The apostrophe has two purposes in English: 1)  To indicate that one or more letters was dropped in a  contraction . uncontracted = contracted it is it’s we are we’re does not doesn’t of the clock o’clock 2)  To indicate possession. singular with  ‘s Tom’s book Jeannie’s idea the girl’s toys (toys belong to one girl) plural with  s’ the books’ covers (several books) my brothers’ jobs (my two brothers) the girls’ toys (toys belong to several girls) The apostrophe should  never  be used when talking about something that is plural, with no possession. correct incorrect The girls walked by The girl’s walked by My brothers are tall My ...