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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- p. 310 - With your partner, try to guess the meaning of the rest of the proverbs. Do you agree?
- “One bad apple spoils the barrel.” = If there is one bad person in a group, it will eventually make the whole group bad.
- “What goes around comes around.” = If you do a good/bad thing, good/bad things will happen to you.
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- An idle mind is the devil’s playground.
- - not a specific mind, and “idle” starts with a vowel -> “an”
- - “devil” is one specific creature -> “the”
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- Determiners: words that go at the beginning of a noun phrase
- - demonstratives: this, that, these, those (which, what)
- - possessives: his, my, her, Greg’s, Boston’s
- - quantifiers: a lot of, much, many, a few, some, little, one, three, ten million
- - articles: a/an, the, (some), [zero article]
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- count/noncount: remember that many (if not most) nouns have both count and noncount meanings
- I like coffee. = I like the substance. / I like the liquid.
- I want a coffee. = I want one “unit” of coffee. (a cup of coffee)
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