Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Tree Analysis

A tree diagram, or tree, is a two-dimensional diagram used in generative grammar as a convenient means of displaying the internal hierarchical structure of sentences as generated by a set of rules.
S:sentence
NP: Noun phrase 
VP: Verb phrase
D: Determiners
N:noun 
V: Verb
PP: Prepositional phrase 
Q: Preposition 
https://elearning.cpp.edu/learning-objects/syntactic-tree-structures/?page=learn.html


Friday, May 26, 2023

Past perfect and past perfect progressive

past perfect: used to describe an action finished before another past action. that happened before a specific time in the past.  (both action finished in the past)

Structure: Suject + had+ past participle

https://youtu.be/E7TLPg9ISIA











Past perfect progressive: We used to refer to an ongoing action that ended before another action/event in the past already stared and continued up to another actiion or time in the past 

Structurre: Suject + had been + verb ing 

https://youtu.be/w4VKstoLUrg

Future perfect and future perfect progressive

 Future perfect: We use to say that somenthing will be ended or complete by a partiicular point in the futurre 

Structure: Will + have + past participle 

Future perfect progressive: We use to express an action in progress and specif time in the future detailed in progression ( duration of an action, planned or decided. fuuture time)

Structure: Will + been + verb ing 


https://youtu.be/SC0ZhwnO534


conditional- mixed conditionals

uses and structures 

Zero conditional use to express true facts and probabilities 

Structure: If + simple present + simple present 

First to express real consequence in the present, cause and effect 

Structure: If + present simple + will + infinitive 

Second to express hypothetical and unreal situation 

Structure: If + past simple + would + infinitive

Third to express unreal situation, remember something in the past 

Structure: If + past perfect + would + have + past participle 









 https://youtu.be/4H3-2sm

present result of past condition: If + past perfect + would + have + infinitive

past result of present or continuing condition: If + simple past + would have + PP 



collocations - Gerunds and infinitives

There are severa different types of collocations 

we uses collocations to sound like a native spaker 

some exmples of structure :

Adverb + Adjective 

Adjective +noun 

Noun + noun 

noun + verb 

verb + noun 

verb + preposition 

verb + adverb 

In this video you can find a lot of examples.

https://youtu.be/4w0FuP7So0I




Gerunds and infinitives: 

gerunds

As subject 

As object 

As complement 

As object of preposition 

after some verbs 

Infinitives:

As a subject 

As object 

As complement of subject 

As adverb of purpose 

After some verbs 

This video can help you.

https://youtu.be/yDc2BUV9xis





Inverted sentences




What does investment mean?
To change the normal order. 

Used to emphatic, formal and literally context and more poetic 

Investment in the first part structure:

Negative adverbial+noun or pronoun+past particple

second part structure: negative adverbial + phrase + subject +verb 

inversion in conditionals: should ( Ax verb+ subject +verb infinitive)

were (Ax verb + subject + verb to infinitive)

Had ( Ax verb + subject + past particple )

 https://youtu.be/ivrER84mTOc

Passive voice

 Passive voice: We uses passive voice to  scientific writing or very formal writing, the object in the sentences perfome the action. ( always use verb to be and past )

Structures: (simple present ) Object+verb be+past participle + Complement 

(simple past ) Object +v be past + pp +C

(present perfect ) obj+have/has+been+pp+c

(past perfect ) obj+had +been+pp+c

(future simple) obj+will+be +pp+c

(future perfect ) obj+will+have+been +pp+c

(present continous ) obj+verb be + being+pp+c

(past continuous) obj+v be past +being+pp+c

(future  continuous ) obj+will +be +being +pp+c

(present participle ) obj+have+been+pp+c

(modals ) obj+modals+be+pp+c

 some examples: 

Was the problem solve ? 

Is the church being painting ?

 The villagers have been given out medical suplies by people. 

video: https://youtu.be/N7uvEllP5Jg