ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORDS ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE PRE INTERMEDIATE

 

ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE PRE INTERMEDIATE UNIT 4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORDS

 

A Parts of speech “I have a brown leather chair by the window, and I often sit there in the morning to listen to music.” In the sentence above, /is a pronoun; chair, window, morning and music are all nouns; have, sit and listen are verbs; brown and leather are adjectives; often is an adverb; by and to are prepositions; the is a definite article; a is an indefinite article; and is a conjunction or link word. B Grammar When you are learning vocabulary, you need to know certain things about different words; for example, if nouns are countable, e.g. books, apples, chairs; or uncountable, e.g. information (NOT informations), advice (NOT advices). (See Unit 86.) C Word building In the word uncomfortable, un- is a prefix, and -able is a suffix. Other common prefixes include in- and dis-, e.g. incorrect and dislike. Common suffixes include -ment and -ive, e.g. improvement and attractive. (See Units 70–72.) D Dictionaries show the pronunciation of a word using phonemic symbols, e.g. book /bʊk/, before /bɪˈfɔː/, cinema /ˈsɪnəmə/. E Punctuation Every sentence must begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. Some sentences have a comma, which often shows a pause [when you stop reading or speaking for a short time] in a long sentence. Did you also know that a question must end with a question mark? EXERCISES 4.1 Put the words into the correct columns. noun comma phonetic symbol adverb stress syllable preposition question mark full stop adjective 4.2 There is one word missing in each line of the text. Where does the missing word go? What could it be? What part of speech is it? Last year I went to for my holiday. I spent the first 1 ___ Spain (noun) ________ week Seville staying with a couple of friends, and 2 ________________________ then I a train to Barcelona, where I spent another 3 ________________________ ten days. It is beautiful city and I had a marvellous 4 ________________________ time. I stayed in a very hotel right in the centre, but 5 ________________________ 4.3 Answer the questions. 1 What type of verb is break? ____ an irregular verb ______ 2 What does a sentence begin with? _________________________ 3 What do you put at the end of every sentence? _________________________ 4 What’s missing here. _________________________ 5 What shows you there is a pause in the middle of a long sentence? _________________________ 4.4 Mark the stress on each word. How many syllables are there? ‘English 2 informal opposite syllable decide adjective education pronunciation 4.5 Look at these words and answer the questions. cheap dangerous kind lucy

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