Welcome to Introductory
English Grammar and Vocabulary with Color Key by Pronunciation Power (www.englishelearning.com), a
grammar and vocabulary program for beginner English learners. This program, which uses the unique Color
Key, will help you learn and remember the English skills you need for basic
communication in English. Every word has a Color Key for the part of speech that it
represents. You will be able to learn
word position simply by remembering what part of speech each color represents!
The Color Key is easy to remember – all nouns are blue, all pronouns are green, verbs are black and so on as follows:
Nouns
Prepositions
You
can begin by testing yourself before starting the first lesson. Complete the
Pre-test that is available on our web site (www.englishelearning.com)
and keep a record of your score. When you have completed all of the Lessons and
Exercises in the program you can see how much you have learned by completing
the Post-test that is available on our web site.
Begin
the easy, effective process of learning English simply by clicking on a Lesson
and reviewing the Vocabulary for that lesson.
All of the words used in each of the Lesson and Exercise units are
listed under “Vocabulary” in the Lesson section. These are the words you must learn for the
lesson. There are translations available
in the Vocabulary list. Click on a word in the Vocabulary list to get
information on that word. If the word is
a verb you will get the conjugations of the verb listed in the order of present
tense, present continuous, past and past participles for irregular verbs. If the word is a noun you will get the plural
form of that noun.
At
the end of each Lesson test your skills in the Exercise section. Click on “Score” to receive a score and
summary when you have completed an Exercise unit. The red X indicates an
incorrect answer. The green √
indicates a correct answer.
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There
are a few words that are used in the Lessons or Exercises that have not been
translated in the program and are not in the Vocabulary list. The words and their translations are as
follows:
Ache
Actor
Ant
Bride
Centimeter
Clean
(adjective)
Daisy
Drum
Essay
Explanation
Intelligent
Jungle
Necklace
Ours
Rarely
Robber
Seldom
Sidewalk
Snowman
Subject
(in school)
Truth
Violin
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The following topics are more advanced forms of the grammatical structures taught in this program. These advanced structures are not taught in depth in this program, as this is an introductory grammar program. We have included a brief description of these structures below. To learn more about these topics, refer to an intermediate grammar program.
NOUNS
Nouns are words we
use to name a person, place or thing. They can be divided into two groups – proper
nouns and common nouns. A proper noun always has a capital letter
because it is the name of a specific person (Karen), place (
PLURAL NOUNS
One
person or thing is the singular form of nouns.
Many
common nouns have a plural form if there is more than one person, place or
thing. Plurals are usually formed by
adding –s (cars) or –es (boxes). Some plural nouns are formed in a different
way (child = children, person = people)
To
learn the plural form of the nouns used in this program refer to the noun
section of the Word List.
COUNT AND NON-COUNT NOUNS
A
count noun names anything you can count.
It has both a singular and plural form.
For example: I have a
(one) chair. I have three chairs.
She has an
(one) apple. She has five apples.
A
non-count noun is a noun you can not count.
It does not have a plural form.
For
example: I have furniture. NOT: I have three furnitures.
She has fruit. She has five fruits.
POSSESSIVE NOUNS
We
use possessive nouns to show that a person, place or thing belongs to the subject
or the object of a sentence. To show
possession we add an apostrophe (’) and –s to a singular noun. There are different rules for plural nouns
and irregular nouns.
For example:
He
is Debbie’s son.
These
are the student’s books.
The
dog’s dish is brown.
ARTICLES
“The”, “a”,
“an” are articles. “A” and “an” are used
when referring to a thing for the first time or to indicate a thing that is not
identified or specific. “A” is used
before words that begin with consonants.
“An” is used before words that begin with vowels.
For example: I saw a
car. (This could be any car.)
“The”
is used to indicate that the thing being referred to is specific or identified.
For example: I saw the car. (This refers to a
particular car.)
SUBJECT / OBJECT
Nouns
can be used as the subject of a sentence or as the object of a verb. The placement of the noun in the sentence
will dictate what the noun is being used for. The noun will come before the
verb when it is the subject of the sentence.
For
example: Children play. The
kitten is cute.
(N) (V) (N) (V)
The
noun will come after the verb when it is the object of the sentence.
For
example: Bob wants a job. Little children like candy.
(N)
(V) (N) (N) (V)
(N)
To
learn about subject pronouns refer to Lesson 2.
To learn about object pronouns refer to Lesson 18.
VERBS
Verbs
are words we use to show action (jump) or
a condition of being (am/is/are). Every
sentence must have a verb.
Verbs change their form according to tense (jump, jumped, will jump) and
person – singular or plural (I jump, she jumps, they jump).
Conjunctions
are used to connect words or clauses of a sentence together. “And” is a common
conjunction.
PREPOSITIONS
Prepositions
are words we use to connect a noun or pronoun to something else in the
sentence.
For example: The dog jumped over the fence.
He is the president of the company.
It is hot in August.
I work for
you.
SYLLABLES
A
syllable is a word or part of a word that is spoken with a single sounding of
the voice. Syllables are put together to form words. We can sound out a word by
dividing it into the proper syllables.
1
syllable: corn
2
syllables: apple = ap/ple
3
syllables: potato = po/ta/to
4
syllables: cauliflower = cau/li/flow/er
Than
“Than”
is a conjunction we use to compare two or more things. It means “compared to”. The word “than” follows the comparative form
of an adjective in a sentence.
For example: Bob
is taller than James.
My daughter
is happier than her friends.
A doctor is richer than a waiter.
There
are many irregular verbs. To learn about
irregular verbs refer to Lesson 12. To
learn the conjugations of these verbs refer to the Word list in this program.
You
can learn about many more verbs and irregular verbs as well as how they are
pronounced in our 8 in 1 English Dictionary.
Visit our web site at http://www.englishelearning.com/.
PHRASES USED TO SHOW PAST or FUTURE
Some
of the common phrases we use to show the future are: tomorrow, next year,
tonight, later, in a month.
Some
of the common phrases we use to show the past are: yesterday, a long time ago,
last night, last week, in 1965.
Some
of these phrases are used in this program but are not taught in a specific
lesson.