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Hello students, welcome to our course: English Grammar 1. I' your English teacher. Fabiola Quesada Sandí, and I will help you throughout this process. 

The objective of this course is to learn different things related to basic grammar, such as: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more. We eill use, visual aids, videos, and audios.  At the end of this course, you will be able to use the different parts of the speech to produce sentences.   

Bibliography

• https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/how-use-play-do-and-go/
• http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/demonstrative-pronouns/
• https://www.thebalancecareers.com/top-interview-tips-2058577
• https://www.livecareer.com/career/advice/interview/job-interview-tips
• http://www.grammar.cl/Basic/Adverbs_Frequency.htm
• http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/nouns/
• http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/verbs/

Sport Verbs

Dear students, in here we will learn the correct use of the verbs play, go, and do, that are often used with sports.

We use the verbs play, do and go with sports and activities. Here is the information you need to know to use them correctly:

play

Play is used with ball sports or competitive games where we play against another person:

'How often do you play tennis?' - tennis is a ball sport.
'I play poker with my friends on Friday night.' - poker is a competitive game. We play to win.
'I don't like playing computer games.' - again, computer games are competitive so we use play.

do

Do is used for a recreational activity or a non-team sport that does not use a ball:

'I heard that you do karate.' - karate is a non-team activity.
'I do crossword puzzles in my free time.' - crossword puzzles are not competitive.

go

Go is used with activities that end -ing. We go somewhere to do something:

'I'm going fishing on Sunday.'
'Are you going skiing this winter?'
'She said she was going swimming.'

Demostrative pronouns

Look the following map, and study the demostrative pronouns. If you want, you can use the following link and watch the virtual map in this page:

https://www.goconqr.com/es-ES/p/10035322-Demostrative-Pronouns-mind_maps

Mapa Mental creado con GoConqr por T. Fabiola Quesada Sandí

When used to represent a thing or things, demonstrative pronouns can be either near or far in distance or time:

• Near in time or distance: this, these
• Far in time or distance: that, those

Because there are only a few demonstrative pronouns in the English language, there are just three simple rules for using them correctly. Remember them and you will have no difficulty using these surprisingly interesting parts of speech.

• Demonstrative pronouns always identify nouns, whether those nouns are named specifically or not. For example: “I can’t believe this.” We have no idea what “this” is, but it’s definitely something the writer cannot believe. It exists, even though we don’t know what it is.
• Demonstrative pronouns are usually used to describe animals, places, or things, however they can be used to describe people when the person is identified, i.e., This sounds like Mary singing.
• Do not confuse demonstrative adjectives with demonstrative pronouns. The words are identical, but demonstrative adjectives qualify nouns, whereas demonstrative pronouns stand alone.

Demonstrative pronouns can be used in place of a noun, so long as the noun being replaced can be understood from the pronoun’s context. Although this concept might seem a bit confusing at first, the following examples of demonstrative pronouns will add clarity.

Demonstrative Pronouns Examples

In the following examples, demonstrative pronouns have been italicized for ease of identification.

This was my mother’s ring.

That looks like the car I used to drive.

These are nice shoes, but they look uncomfortable.

Those look like riper than the apples on my tree.

Such was her command over the English language.

None of these answers are correct.

Neither of the horses can be ridden.

Demonstrative Pronouns Exercises

The following exercises will help you gain greater understanding about how demonstrative pronouns work. Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

1. ____________ was such an interesting experience.
   1. That
   2. These
   3. Those
   4. Such
2. Are ___________ your shoes?
   1. That
   2. Them
   3. Those
   4. This
3. You’ll have to get your own pen. ______________ is mine.
   1. That
   2. Those
   3. Such
   4. This
4. There is no end to ___________.
   1. Such
   2. Those
   3. This
   4. None
5. Because of their bad behavior, ____________ of the children were given allowances.
   1. None
   2. That
   3. Those
   4. Them
6. ____________ of them had seen it before.
   1. Those
   2. Neither
   3. Such
   4. This
7. Is ____________ yours?
   1. This
   2. Those
   3. These
   4. Such
8. Everyone ate early. When we arrived, ____________ was left.
   1. That
   2. Such
   3. None
   4. Neither
9. Please give me one of ____________.
   1. That
   2. Those
   3. This
   4. Such
10. ____________ are nice-looking.
    1. This
    2. That
    3. These
    4. Such

Frequency adverbs

Read the following infographic, regarding frequency adverbs,  and practice your sentences. 

We use some adverbs to describe how frequently we do an activity.

These are called adverbs of frequency and include:

Frequency	Adverb of Frequency	Example Sentence
100%	always	I always go to bed before 11 p.m.
90%	usually	I usually have cereal for breakfast.
80%	normally / generally	I normally go to the gym.
70%	often* / frequently	I often surf the internet.
50%	sometimes	I sometimes forget my wife's birthday.
30%	occasionally	I occasionally eat junk food.
10%	seldom	I seldom read the newspaper.
5%	hardly ever / rarely	I hardly ever drink alcohol.
0%	never	I never swim in the sea.

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Job Interview tips

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Verbs

Verbs are actions. Today we will learn about the verb to be. 

Listen to the following audio for a full explanation: 

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The verb to be is the most important verb in the English language. It is difficult to use because it is an irregular verb in almost all of its forms.  In the simple present tense, to be is conjugated as follows:

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Nouns

The nouns can be:

 There are several different types of noun, as follows:

Common noun

A common noun is a noun that refers to people or things in general, e.g. boy, country, bridge, city, birth, day, happiness.

Proper noun

A proper noun is a name that identifies a particular person, place, or thing, e.g. Steven, Africa, London, Monday. In written English, proper nouns begin with capital letters.

Concrete noun

A concrete noun is a noun which refers to people and to things that exist physically and can be seen, touched, smelled, heard, or tasted. Examples include dog, building, coffee, tree, rain, beach, tune.

Abstract noun

An abstract noun is a noun which refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions - things that cannot be seen or touched and things which have no physical reality, e.g. truth, danger, happiness, time, friendship, humour.

Collective nouns

Collective nouns refer to groups of people or things, e.g. audience, family, government, team, jury. In American English, most collective nouns are treated as singular, with a singular verb:

• The whole family was at the table.

Count and mass nouns

Nouns can be either countable or uncountable. Countable nouns (or count nouns) are those that refer to something that can be counted. Uncountable nouns (or mass nouns) do not typically refer to things that can be counted and so they do not regularly have a plural form.

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