Distintas técnicas:
El acento
Tipos de palabras
Contenido
Función gramatical
Sentence Stress (Sentence stress is the music of spoken English):
Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat".
Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence.
Example: She bought a new car.
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Sentences have two basic types of word:
Content Words: keywords of a sentence, they keep the sense are important, as Nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Structure Words: not very important, they´re small-simple words, make the sentence correct grammatically, as prepositions, conjuctions: but- because- and, until, how, that, so, or, auxiliaries.
In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object , indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or modifier (name of: person, places, things, animals).
Countable nouns: nouns that can be counted, nouns can be singular or plural and can be used with numbers and modifiers like a/an, the, some, any, a few, and many: Here is a cat / hera are a few cats / here are eight cats.
Uncountable nouns: are impossible to count, they name intangible concepts, most of these nouns are singular: information, wealth, collections, milk, sand, air, Ex: They´d love to rent some property around here / Students don´t seen to have much homework these days.
Nouns and the possessive case: The possessive case shows the relationship of a noun to other words in a sentence, by adding an apostrophe and the letter s: The cat´s toy was missing / Csey´s sister is a geologist.
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Nouns
Nouns as subjects: Every sentence must have a subject, and that subject will always be a noun or pronoun. Ex: mMaria played the piece beautifully.
Nouns as objects: can be objects of a transitive verb in a sentence. An object can be either a direct object (a noun that receives the action described by the verb) or an indirect object (a noun that receives direct object).
•Ex: Cleo passed the salt. / Ex: Cleo passed Otto the salt.
Nouns as subject complements: A subject complement normally follows a linking verb such as be, become, or seem and gives more information about the subject. Ex: Mary is a teacher.
Nouns as object complements: It provides more information about the direct object, with a transitive verb.
Ex: : I now pronounce you husbands.
Verbs
Base verb:
Regular verb:
Irregular verb:
Transitive verb: the verb that requires an object to complete its meaning, e.g. bring, buy, call.
Intransitive verb: the verb that does not require an object to complete its meaning, e.g. sleep, swim, die.
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Prepositions
Prepositions
are short words (on, in, to) that usually stand in front of nouns (sometimes also in front of gerund verbs).
There are hardly any rules as to when to use which preposition
Conjunctions are used to combine two or more objects, phrases or clauses.
•Coordinating conjunctions: to combine two independent clauses. Ex: for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so.
•Subordinating conjunctions: to combine an independent clause and a dependent clause. Ex: if, although, though, after, before, because, as if, unless, until, when, while, etc.
•Correlative conjunctions: to combine two parts of the sentence which have equal importance, Ex: not only…but also, either…or, neither…nor, whether…or, rather…or, if…then, etc.
