9B nouns: compound and possesive forms

Homographs It refers to a word that is spelled the same as another word but has a different  meaning. There are not many words like this, but the common ones are sometimes mispronounced, and learning the correct pronunciation will avoid misunderstandings. There is a whole class of homographs that end in -ate , usually with one being a verb and the other being a noun or an adjective related to it. For example: Advocate:     1.  can be pronounced with a long "a" sound and mean "to speak or write in support           of"     2.  can also be pronounced with a short "a" sound and refer to a person who                        supports or pleads the cause of another. Some common examples are (capital letters sound stronger to each meaning): ADdress (noun – the location of a building) adDRESS (verb – to write down an address OR to speak to a grou...

Comparison When have two references and want to see the differences in order to highlight them, you can use these rules in English: Modifiers with as...as Often use the modifiers almost, just, and nearly, and  half, twice, three times, etc.           After as...as...   we can use a subject pronoun+auxiliary verb, or an object pronoun. Examples: I want to play soccer as well as Chicharito does. My cat is twice as big as last year. She ate nearly as much as he.  Twice can only be used before as...as...  However three times, four times, etc. can be used with as... as... or with a comparative adjective or adverb Modifiers with comparative adjectives or adverbs The  comparative  form of an adjective is commonly used to compare two people, things, or states, when you want to say that one thing has a larger or smaller amount of a quality than another. 1. We use much, a lot , or far + comparative adjective or adverb for a big...

Word building: adjectives, nouns and verbs Learning more words and vocabulary is really important to improve your language skills. In English you can make new words from other completely different by using specific endings. There are nouns from verbs or  verbs from nouns or adjectives etcetera . Learning what endings you can put on words means you can expand your vocabulary and say what you mean more easily.   You can say one same word by changing how it uses based on the word-ending because this specifies if it is an adjective, noun, or verb.   Nouns often end: -ment (improvement), -ion (investigation), -ness (sadness), -ity (infinity), -ship  (leadership), -ece/ance  (permanence), -acy  (lunacy), -age  (marriage), -y (story), -cy  (fluency).             People nouns often end: -er (teacher), -or  (advisor), -ist (artist), -ian                   ...

Compound nouns 1. We use compound nouns , not possessive forms, to refer to people or things in terms of: what they are for; what they are made of; what work they do; or what kind they are. The second noun is the main thing or person, and can be singular or plural. The first noun gives more information about the second noun. It is usually singular, unless it has no singular form: I just bought a coffee maker in a commercial centre  near my house I am a university teacher and my husband is a businessman NOTE: Compound nouns are usually two separate words, but they are occasionally joined together as one word, e.g., sunglasses, bathroom, or hyphenated, e.g., house-hunter, fortune-teller. 2.  With containers , a compound noun (a milk bottle) focuses on the container (usually empty), whereas the container + a possessive noun (a bottle of milk) focuses on the contents (the container is usually full). A tuna can is empty on the table ( empty ) A can of tuna will be my di...

Using of   (instead of apostrophe s ) 1. We normally use an of phrase , not 's, with things or abstract nouns, especially when one thing is part of another:  Consequences of Coronavirus 2. We use of  to express possession with a long-phrase: Luna is the daughter of my friend in Romania. 3. With friend , we often say a friend of + name/noun + 's Tom is a friend of my family 

Apostrophe s Possessive forms express the idea of "having" something, or indicate that belongs to someone specific. 1. We normally use possessive ('s)  when something belongs to a particular person or thing. Can be: person; animal; organization; group of people; etc. *With places, we can also say, e.g., Cancun is one of the most touristic places in Mexico   2. If a name (or singular noun) finishes in s , we either ass 's Lias 's cat or  Lia s' cat Plural nouns: we use s' cat s' Irregular plurals:  which don't end in s, we add 's : men 's work 3.   When 's  refers to "the house of" or "the store of", we omit the word house  or store . I will see you at Nina 's (it means "I will see you at the house of Nina")