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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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- Homework: p. 35 exercise 4 - add the adverbials to each sentence
- (Read the paragraph on p. 34 to see examples of where each type of adverb and adverbial can be used.)
- 1 Gladstone Gulp goes on a new diet every few months because he feels heavy.
- Every few months, GG goes on a new diet because he feels heavy.
- 2 He uses diet pills regularly to increase his metabolism. / He regularly uses… / To increase…, he uses...
- 3 He occasionally rides an exercise bicycle very hard to use up calories. / Occasionally, he rides…
- 4 (Sometimes) He (sometimes) trades diet plans with his friend Biff (sometimes).
- 5 He carefully reads about every new diet in magazines whenever he can.
- Whenever he can, he carefully reads about every new diet plan in magazines.
- 6 He doesn’t always (carefully) follow their directions (carefully).
- 7 He usually drinks a special vitamin supplement to make sure he gets proper nutrition.
- He rides his bike fast to burn calories. - fast riding
- He rides his bike to burn calories fast. - fast burning
- In magazines, he reads about every new diet. - this suggests that he is in the magazines
- He read about dogs in the book. - He has a book which is about dogs.
- In the book, he read about dogs. - He is a book character, and the character read about dogs.
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- Adverbials tell us about verbs and verb phrases, now we’ll talk about modifying nouns.
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- What order should these words be in a noun phrase?
- blue / big / table / round / plastic / the
- the big blue round plastic table
- p. 148 of the handout describes the basic order of noun phrases
- determiners (including articles) go first - the
- adjective modifiers go next - big, blue, round
- noun modifiers come right before the head noun - plastic
- the head noun (what the phrase is about) goes last - table
- then we can add modifying phrases - in the back yard
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- p. 149 - Take turns with your partner making sentences about noun phrases using these modifiers and nouns.
- I would like to have an extremely relaxing three-week vacation.
- I would like some extremely relaxing vacation. (in this case “vacation” = “vacation time”, it’s noncount)
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- Homework: read p. 150 about the order of adjectives, and do p. 152 exercise 3
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