Words: the family map

The building blocks: nouns, determiners, pronouns, modifiers, prepositions.

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# Words ## 1 Word classes ### A1 - Parts of speech & sentence parts ### B1 - Word formation 1: suffixes ### B2 - Word formation 2: prefixes ### C1 - Word formation 3: conversion & compounds ### C2 - Word formation: expert ## 2 Nouns ### A1 - Plural nouns - Countable & uncountable nouns; some, any, how much, how many ### B1 - Uncountable traps & a piece of - Compound nouns & measurements: a ten-minute walk ### B2 - a coffee or coffee? Nouns that change meaning - Special plurals: trousers, news, criteria - Possession 3: 's, of or noun + noun? ### C1 - Nominalisation & complex noun phrases ### C2 - Noun phrases: expert ## 3 Determiners ### A1 - a or an? - the: first steps - this, that, these, those - Numbers, dates, times & prices ### A2 - the or no article? - much, many, a lot of, a few, a little - some, any, no; something, anyone, nowhere - one, ones; another, other, the other - all, both, each, every ### B1 - Articles 2: places, institutions, the rich - each, every, either, neither, both, all, whole, none - Numbers & quantities: hundreds of, two-thirds, 50% ### B2 - Articles 3: generic and abstract - Quantifiers 3: few or a few? ### C1 - Determiner order & pre-determiners - Articles 4: fixed phrases & names ### C2 - Determiners & quantifiers: fine points ## 4 Pronouns ### A1 - Subject pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they - my, your, his, her… and 's - Object pronouns: me, him, her, us, them ### A2 - mine, yours… and whose - Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself ### B1 - Generic you, one, they; each other ### C1 - Pronouns: advanced ### C2 - Reference: expert ## 5 Modifiers ### A1 - Adverbs of frequency: always, usually, never - Adjectives: before nouns and after be - very, really, too ### A2 - Comparatives - Superlatives - as … as, the same as, different from - too, enough, very - Adverbs of manner: quickly, well - -ed or -ing adjectives: bored or boring? - already, yet, still, just; also, too, either ### B1 - so & such; too & enough + to - Comparatives 2: much better, more and more, the … the - Where adverbs go - Adjective order (first steps) ### B2 - Gradable & non-gradable adjectives - Adjective order & compound adjectives - Comparison 3: twice as…, by far, like or as - Adverbs 2: hard or hardly? late or lately? ### C1 - Adverbs 3: viewpoint, focus & position - Adjective complementation - Comparison 4: all the more, none the less ### C2 - Adverbials: expert ## 6 Prepositions ### A1 - Prepositions of place - Prepositions of time: at, on, in ### A2 - Prepositions of movement - by, with, about; between, among; above, over ### B1 - Dependent prepositions 1 ### B2 - Dependent prepositions 2 - Prepositional phrases & zero-preposition traps - Preposition or conjunction? during/while, despite/although ### C1 - Complex prepositions: in terms of, by virtue of

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