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Word Order

1. Word order refers to the arrangement of words in a sentence. Basic word order in English is subject + verb + object. Adverbs can come before or after the subject. Questions start with the object + verb + subject. 2. Determiners like "a", "the", and demonstratives like "this" and "that" precede nouns. Count nouns can take quantifiers like "many" or "few" while uncount nouns take quantifiers like "much" or "little". 3. Exercises provide examples of correct determiner and adjective order for describing nouns in sentences.

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Word Order

1. Word order refers to the arrangement of words in a sentence. Basic word order in English is subject + verb + object. Adverbs can come before or after the subject. Questions start with the object + verb + subject. 2. Determiners like "a", "the", and demonstratives like "this" and "that" precede nouns. Count nouns can take quantifiers like "many" or "few" while uncount nouns take quantifiers like "much" or "little". 3. Exercises provide examples of correct determiner and adjective order for describing nouns in sentences.

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Word order

Third meeting
Definition
• Word order refers to the way words are arranged in a sentence
Basic word order
1. Subject + verb + object
He loves cat

2. Subject + verb + Object + direct object + Indirect object


The doctor gave some medicine to the child

3. Subject + verb + object + indirect object + direct object


The doctor gave the child some medicine
• Adverb / adverb phrase
1. Adverb+ Subject+ Verb + object (before subject)
At the end of March the weather was rather cold
Subordinate clause
I will tell you the story at school tomorrow because I don’t have time
now

Position of time
I will tell you the story tomorrow
Wh-questions

Object + verb + subject + verb


What can I do for you?

Object + verb + object + verb


Which book did you read?
• Subject + verb + Object + adverb (MPT)
He reads a book quickly in the classroom everyday
Word order
• Determiner : a, an, the, this, that those, some, several
• Ordinative : the bigger, smallest, one, three, second, third
• Descriptive : beautiful, interesting, good, cheap
• Size : big, small, tall, short, wide, narrow, large
• Age : young, old, new
• Temperature : hot, cold, warm
• Shape: round, square, triangle, flat
• Color : black, white, red
• Material : gold, wood, paper
• Head word noun : phone, book, paper
Countable noun Uncountable noun
A, the, some, any The, some, any
This, that, these, those This , that
None, one, two, three None
Many Much
A lot of A lot of
A large number of A large a mount of
A great number of
A few A little
Fewer … than Less .. Than
More … than More … than
Exercise 1
1. Choose the correct determiner in the following sentences!

2. He couldn’t nave (many/much) money


3. I would like ) a few/a little) salt on my vegetables
4. She bought (that/those) cards last night
5. There are (less/fewer) students in this room than in the next room
6. There is (too much/too many) bad news on television tonight
6. I don’t want (this/these) water
7. This is (too many/too much) information to learn
8. A (few/little) people left early
9. Would you like (less/fewer) coffee than this?
10. This jacket costs (to much/too many)
Exercise 2
Choose the correct answer !
1. My brother has (cat-black-big, a)
2. This animal has (legs-long-four- grey)
3. I have (nice-a-cat-small) at home
4. Sinta is (girl-beautiful-a-slim)
5. Rina has ( hair-black-long-interesting )
6. He has (nice-many-mice-small-white)
7. (elephants-a-big-grey-number-great-of) is walking on the field
8. The goats are eating (green-a-grass-great-of-deal)
9. There are (green-some-trees- large) in the garden
10. My mother gave me(necklace- a-pair-Indian-beautiful-of-ancient)
for a birthday
Exercise 3
1. Since it was so difficult for American Indians to negotiate a peace
treaty or declare war in their native language, they use a universal
understood from of sign language

2. That novel is definitely a dance-packed narrative, but one which


requires a vast knowledge of cultural background or an excellent
encyclopedia
3. After a carefully investigation, we soon discovered that that the
house was infested with termites

4. Because of its warm tropical climate, Hawaii almost never experience


subzero temperature

5. The written beautifully novel explores the nature of guilt and


responsibility and builds to a remarkable conclusion

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