lunes, 27 de noviembre de 2017

Study Review: What I've learned today

Ok. A long time ago I haven't written something in this blog so I decided to write as much as can in order to improve my writing  skills and to remember the themes what I reviewed every single day.
First of all, I have to say sorry to all people who live in any country  where the English is the official language, I know I do not have the best grammar skills and I do not a very rich vocabulary, however I'm trying to improve this and for this reason I've created  this entry in the blog.

I've been studying some essential topics about grammar that I found in the Grammar in Use Book Essential level from the Cambridge University Press. The topics of today were when can I use the word "The" (I think is called article grammatically) for this I going to list the cases when I can use "The":

  • When I talk about plural names: -The Philippines.
  • To refer to Republic, states: -The Czech  Republic
  • Rivers, Canions, mountains, etc: -The Nile, The grand Canion
  • Sole things: -The sun. 
  • Some buildings: 
  1. the cinema
  2. the theatre
  3. the station
  4. the bank
  5. the post office 
  6. the dentis
  7. the doctor.
  • Cardinals: -The north. The south, The eats, etc...
  • Names of Cinemas, theatres, hotels.
  • TO SPECIFIC THINGS, BUILDINGS, ETC.
These are the cases when I have to avoid "THE":

  • General ideas or situations: "Dogs are dangerous" (not The dogs...)
  • TV: - I watch a lot TV.
  • Spots, school subjects: Football, Basketball (not the football)
  • Countries and cities:  IT'S OBVIOUS
  • Buildings that in relation to an activity:
  1. School
  2. Hospital
  3. Prision
  4. University
  5. bed
  6. church
  7. work 
  8. home
  • I CANNOT say "The next/last week, day, Monday"
  • Meals on a day: -"The dinner, the breakfast"
  • Names of streets, square, etc.
  • Airport, Stations and many other important buildings: -"J.F Kennedy Airport" -"Kike Station"
  • Languages.


Another thing I've study is the word GO:
  • GO ON + Holiday, a trip, vacations, a cruiser, strike, a tour. 
  • GO (somewhere) FOR + a meal, a luch, a tea, a beer, a walk, a drink etc..
  • GO...+ING ---> Go shopping, go swimming, go skiing, go fishing
  • GET + NOUN
  1. Receive, buy, find:
-Did you get my postcard? (Did you receive my postcard)
-Where did you get it? (Where did you buy it)
-It is difficult to get a job on these days?  (It is difficult to find a job on these days?)
  1. 2. GET + ADJECTIVES = BECOME
-I'm getting hungy
-She is getting cold.

  1. 3 GET A TAXI, GET A BUS
-GET MARRIED
-GET DRESSED  (Put your clothes on)
-GET LOST          (Lose your way)

  1. 4 GET A PLACE = ARRIVE 
-I usually get to work at 8.30 a.m: But just when the place is defined or is clear and the action involve movement. 

  1. 5 GET IN/OUT OF A CAR 
  2. GET ON/OFF + BUS/TRAIN

¿PRONOUNS?

Why do I put the "¿?"/Because I am not a hundred per cert sure about how to say (or call) this theme. 
The thing is that exits: I, You, He, She, etc... and: Mine, your, her, his, their, our. And the important, (OK cuz' it is the main theme of the grammar review) are: Mine,yours, hers, his, theirs, ours and the difference is that  I can say: My hands, my book, my girlfriend  etc. And in the other hand, I can say: That book is hers (but This is her book) Do you realise that? My, his, her, their + noun BUT noun + hers,his, mine: Friends of mine.

WHOSE

Whose + noun + is/are + this/these? It's mine/they are mine. In Spanish "De quien...?"  It is easy, isn't it? 

PLURAL

-When a noun ends on -s, -sh, -ch, -x ----> -es:  BUS---BUSES, DISH---DISHES
-When a noun ends on -y ---> -ies: BABY--BABIES
-When a noun ends on -ay, -ey, -oy --->-ys: DAY--DAYS
-When a noun ends on -f,-fe ---> -ves: KNIFE--KNIVES 


QUESTION TAGS

I can use questions tags to ask sth to somebody I can use negative questions tags:

-You haven't got a pencil, have you? 
-You couldn't do me a favour, could you?
-You don't know where Camila is, do you?

ARRIVE.

When:

at: 7.32 am

on: Jan 14th

in: 2015 or spring or May

Where:

in: Chine, Africa, Stanford
at: the top of you roof.