word order and quantifiers

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• Leerjaar 3

word order and quantifiers

Word order

What do you remember? 

Standard word order?

Adverbs of frequency? 

adverbs of manner, time and place? 

Word order 

Who - does - what - where - when

subject  - verbs - object - place - time

Jaimy bought a new book in Amsterdam yesterday.

Olivia is walking her dog in the park at this moment.

Adverbs of frequency

• Usually in between the subject and the main verb. verb (sometimes they go in front of or behind the sentence)
• If there is more than one verb, then you put the adverb after the first verb (except 'have to').
• They go after am, is, are, was or were except in question sentences

Adverb of frequency = something that says how often something happens (always, usually, sometimes, etc.)

adverbs of manner, place and time

• Manner (how you do it), then place, then time
• When the information is really important, you can put it in front of the sentence
• If there are two adverbs of time, the more precise one comes first

all together

active sentences

subject - verb  - object - (place) - (time)

Question sentences

verb - subject - object

passive sentences

object - verb - subject

Quantifiers

What are quantifiers?

Countable and uncountable nouns? 

First: (un)countable nouns

A noun can be countable and uncountable 

countable nouns you can count, you can have 3 oranges or a few  chairs. 

uncountable nouns are a little more vague. you can have so much milk or very little patience

uncountable nouns are not usually seen in plural form

which is which?

write down for yourself which of these are countable and uncountable 

water - door - cake - patience - bike - cheese - milk - money - window - pencil - time - garbage - furniture - book

Quantifiers

• A quantifier says something about what amount of something there is
• Which quantifiers you can use depend on if the noun is countable or uncountable
• some quantifiers work for both countable and uncountable nouns 

Quantifiers

I only have ....... cheese on my pizza

1. a few
2. a little

I don't want too ...... chairs in this room

1. many
2. much

he has ...... patience

1. a great deal of
2. very few

..... students don't get enough sleep

1. much
2. many

he only has .... glasses of water

1. a few
2. a little

may I have .... water

1. a few
2. a little

Homework

Work on the following, due at the end of the week

test your words 1, 2 and 3

exercises 1 and 3

Bye!

Have a nice day!