Josh's Homework -- Vocab Chapter One

BASIC VOCABULARY
Talking about language
Parts of Speech
noun
a person, place, or thing
Mary, China, pen
singular
one noun
book, house, child
plural
more than one noun
books, houses, children
possessive
verb
something we do
do, read, write
adjective
describes a noun
good, bad, happy, long
adverb
describes a verb
slowly, badly
preposition
use it before a noun or pronoun
in, on, by, at, through
conjunction
joins items
and, but, or, nor
pronoun
personal, impersonal, relexive, etc.
I, he, she, it, they . . .
interjection
exclamation
Oh, ouch, . . .
Instructions used in this book
sentence
an idea that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period; a sentence usually has a subject and a verb.
The man went into the room and closed the door.
question
a group of words that begin with a capital letter and end with a question mark
What time is it? Do you speak Spanish?
paragraph
one or more sentences about the same topic, beginning on a new line
This book has 60 units. Each unit has 2 pages.
Learning strategies
Write down words that go together (collocations).
Learn words in families.
Word Family
Some words in the family
temperature
hot, warm, cool, cold
travel
tivket, passport, suitcase