Word Classes in English Grammar: A Comprehensive Guide
Word Classes
According to traditional grammarians, words are classified into parts of speech based on their forms. Modern grammar, however, studies words in relation to both their forms and functions. In this approach, words are classified into two broad groups: Major word classes and Minor word classes.
Major Word Class
The Major word class is expandable, meaning new words can be added to it. It is also called an open word class. When new inventions and discoveries are made in any branch of human
Read MoreEbenezer Scrooge and the Spirits of Christmas
Ebenezer Scrooge
The miserly owner of a London counting-house, a nineteenth-century term for an accountant’s office. The three spirits of Christmas visit the stodgy bean-counter in hopes of reversing Scrooge’s greedy, cold-hearted approach to life.
Bob Cratchit
Scrooge’s clerk, a kind, mild, and very poor man with a large family. Though treated harshly by his boss, Cratchit remains a humble and dedicated employee.
Tiny Tim
Bob Cratchit’s young son, crippled from birth. Tiny Tim is a highly sentimentalized
Read MoreThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Summary and Analysis
1. Bruno’s Discovery
It was an ordinary day when Bruno returned home from school with his friends, only to find his world turned upside down. Everyone was packing, including Maria, the maid, who was packing Bruno’s belongings. Confused and alarmed, Bruno questioned his mother about the upheaval. To his dismay, she revealed that they were moving from Berlin because his father had received a new job. The news hit Bruno hard; he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving his friends, grandparents, and everything
Read MoreTravel Blog: Holidays, Complaints, and City Guides
MY NEXT HOLIDAYS
Hello good morning. I´m the student Sergeant Mario González. I´m from Lobon a small town of Badajoz but in the present I live in Calatayud.
I´m 32 years old. I´m married and I have a daughter. She is two year old.// This summer I’m going to go on holidays to the Canary Islands.
I’ll travel with my husband. We’ll go by aeroplane.// We leave Madrid on August 11th at ten o’clock in the night and I hope to arrive there at twelve o’clock in the night. This day of arrival we’ll meet
English Vocabulary and Grammar Guide
Personality Adjectives
Ambitious: Ambicioso * Still: Todavía
Amusing: Divertido * Already: Ya
Assertive: Autoritario * Yet: Todavía (pero…)
Awkward: Incómodo * Just: Solo
Confident: Seguro * For: Para
Creative: Creativo * Since: Desde
Easy-going: Fácil de llevar.
Entertaining: Entretenido
Generous: Generoso
Indecisive: Indeciso
Likeable: Simpático
Nervous: Nervioso
Outgoing: Extrovertido
Quiet: Silencioso
Responsible: Responsable.
Risk-taker: Tomador de riesgo.
Rude: Grosero.
Self-confident: Seguro de sí
Modern British Comedy: From Shaw to Ayckbourn
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Pygmalion (1913)
About George Bernard Shaw
- Born in Dublin, 26 July 1856. Died in 1950 in England.
- Arrived in London in 1876.
- Active socialist, brilliant platform speaker.
- Output: Music, art, theatre reviews, novels, plays.
- Wrote on social aspects.
- Awarded Nobel Prize in 1925.
- “Shavian” as a new adjective in English used to embody all his brilliant qualities.
The Pygmalion Myth
From Ovid’s Metamorphoses:
- Pygmalion is a sculptor and created a woman so beautiful that he fell in