Hi jennifer, I definitely found this lesson very useful. I think this is what we all want " the structure", in this way of teaching we can decipher all abstruse word order, because I sometimes feel like reading mysterious structures especially when it comes to native English writers. As a non-native English speaker I have so many questions about the word order but I know that you don't have much time to answer them all. I hope that you always make lessons like this, and what I hope more is that you display a real article, which has some recondite arrangements, and then explain it step by step. Thank you Jennifer, really thanks
Well, little by little we'll address structure and word order. Have you recently watched my 3-part lesson on the parts of speech? It's an overview of the building blocks.
Thanks for the positive feedback. I felt I had more to say about modifiers, so this lesson resulted. Maybe we'll step away from grammar next time and do something a bit different. ;)
This is a super video. I do like this test and explain format. Question 1 - Isn't 'lots of' also an adverb? Question 2. I would definitely end with 'slowly' and not 'slow' as it is better grammatically: I read slowly; I write quickly. Question 3. You won't be surprised to learn that I hyphenated 'heart-wrenching' and 'heart-warming.' A computerized spell-checker, like Google or Grammarly, will also let us know if such double-barreled names require a hyphen or not. Question 4. I hyphenated 'hotly-debated but didn't hyphenate 'well informed' or 'well known.' Question 5, I made a mistake with that one. The reduced adjective clause caught me out. I went for the second usage of 'married' being a verb. it would have been in this example: The American women married the English men. It varies in your example and with this one, which is similar: The women married before the end of the year also get the government benefits. The women who get married before the end of the year also get the government benefits.
Q1 - Someone else asked about "lots of." I put that in the category of quantifiers. www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/a-lot#a-lot__2 Q2 - I think Americans tend to be more relaxed in grammar, especially in informal conversation. Check out this sets of clips: getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=go%20slow Q3 - I have to edit all the automatically generated captions. Punctuation is highly inaccurate, and I'm left editing every sentence and phrase. I tend to favor Merriam Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heartwarming and Longman www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/heartwarming Q4 - Variation, variation, variation. ;) Q5 - Ah such fun to delve into grammar! Hope you can make it to the advanced live stream on Monday! :) You're welcome to help me out at the basic one as well.
@@Englishwithjennifer Yes, outside of the exam room, we can be a bit more relaxed and quite often incorrect grammar sounds funnier and less formal. I love the double negatives some Americans say. 'Don't you call here no more. I got your number and the police know where y'alls at.' Quite often the reply is something like this: 'Hey, we didn't call your ass!' - I really need to stop watching these prank call videos. I might end up talking like an angry American if I carry on watching those cotton-picking videos! LOL. I'm still a bit confused about those quantifiers, Jennifer. The quantifying adverb is modifying verbs, adjectives and other adverbs, but it isn't an adjective for the noun: There are some children in church. A few people attended my latest lesson. Many of her lessons were easy-to-follow, but some took a bit of learning. There are a lot of videos on You Tube. Lots of cars drive past my house during the day. I had plenty of food in the house, so my guests were well fed. To me, they simply look like they are acting as adjectives when there isn't an obvious verb, adjective or other adverb to modify. Lots of new cars are seen on the road. Casual talk is classed as less-formal speech. We see there how 'Lots of' comes before 'new' so that is modifying that adjective. 'Less' is clearly modifying the verb 'speech' in my second example. Grrr! I'll check out those links. Thank you and well done for this excellent lesson.
Oh goodness! You've really watched too many prank call videos. LOL Re: quantifiers. I group them together in my mind with determiners. Determiners would be the umbrella heading. Determiners go before adjectives when we build noun phrases, right? That's how I see it: determiner + adjective + head noun. some children >> determiner + noun many of her lessons >> determiner (quantifying phrase) + possessive adjective + noun a bit of learning >> determiner (quantifying phrase) + gerund a lot of videos >> determiner (quantifying phrase) + noun less formal speech >> comparative adjective + noun
@@Englishwithjennifer Yes, that does make sense. I'm not expert at phrases as you know. They take ages to sink in with me. I was wondering with this example of heart-wrenching and spine-tingling. if we could say that the sentence in question has compound compound modifiers: The film was both heart-wrenching and spine-tingling. I am painting my rooms white and magnolia..(compound adjectives). I blame the people who make those funny soundboard prank call videos for getting me hooked. I particularly like Fred Herbert, who addresses everyone he calls sir, Gregory Stevens. and such like male terms. Fred: "Is this Gregory Stevens, sir?" Lady: "No, I am a ma'am. Stop calling me sir or Gregory Stevens. And stop calling this number!" Fred: Wow! You're usually a much better gentleman than this!" Another good one is Officer Ed Powell who also fails to recognize a woman's voice on the phone. In fact he doesn't recognize very much and drives those whom he calls up the wall! "What's your second name, Mr, Curry?"
Super lesson this one! I still say that compound modifiers are hyphenated before the noun, even the ones ending 'ly.'. it was a brightly-lit room. It was a laugh-a-minute film. She shared a deeply-moving experience. This hotly-disputed legislation will be the main topic in the news for some time. There is little tolerance for badly-made decisions.
Interesting lesson about, verbs, adjectives and nouns, to learn the modifiers I think is essential to understand this part of Grammar, salutations Jennifer I was a lot of days without say anything because I don't feel fine, all is a rsult of my illness.
So sorry you've been ill, Armando. I've actually been getting over something too. I lost my voice for a few days, but I'm gradually improving. I can hide it with some medicine and a hot cup of tea. :) Take care of yourself and know the lessons will be here when you're ready and able to study. :) Hope you can join the live stream on Monday. :)
Great lesson. So you can use the short forms in informal language. I prefer the - ly-forms. Hardly/ hard no. I know, but this is excellent. I'm a grammar freak. I love grammar. Yikes! 💖
It’s to my liking ; moreover , It appeals to me. You are the be-all and end-all. Henceforward, I must address you as Her Majesty the Queen of English language. Did you want a chalice of Prosecco wine? Thank you very much indeed. Far thee well, dearest Prof. A
LOL I'd love to be royalty for a day, but then I'm sure I'd tire of it. Someone else can have the burdensome title, but I'll accept a small glass of wine. Thank you. ;)
How do I learn advanced reading without the need for help? Reading long and new words I have difficulty reading them. What are their solutions? And what books are best for reading development
Work your way up gradually. Try a site like ReadTheory.org. It will give you more advanced texts if you answer questions correctly. Also, you can read online article and use the Chrome extension ReadLang for quick translations. Have you also tried audio books? Read along and listen to another person read.
@@Englishwithjennifer thank you very much . I will certainly work on that.
But I want to learn spelling. I often find new and long words that I do not know how to spell . And your advice to the fastest way to learn advanced reading for new learners
Compound modifiers are two or more words put together. Noun modifiers are typically singular or noncount nouns used as adjectives: a music teacher, a piano bench, the student textbook, etc. "The ladies' room" is actually a plural noun in the possessive form used before the singular noun "room." www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ladies'%20room
@@Englishwithjennifer Thanks Jenny for being helpful with me. you are really a heart-warmingly helpful person. You made my ability sturdy when it comes to exploiting compound modifiers. But I have a query about using thumbs up. Why is it thumbs up not thumb up? Would you mind driving away this puzzle?
Good question. Again, we look for patterns. The typical pattern is to use singular nouns in compound modifiers. But we don't hyphenate "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." Also, I think it's because it came from a situation where more than one thumb was used to give the up or down signal.
There will always be exceptions. I was thinking of "a people person," meaning someone social and with good communication skills. Its a set phrase. www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/not-people-person-you-will-one-after-reading-this.html We don't say "a person person." Same idea. It refers to connections with many people. (Like using more than one thumb.) Does that make sense?
Thanks Jenny for your sincerely- replying- habit. This habit makes me laud u. Now it makes sense to me. And I no longer have any confusion. Love u & have a mind blowing day.😍
Hi Jennifer what's up I'm glad to see you again As always your videos are fantastic and very helpful I learn a lot of them Thanks a lot my dear teacher and have a lovely weekend you and your family 😉
❤️ Hi Jennifer. Thank you for sending this lesson. We're already started the holiday! I can't think about learning English now. But wishing you and for a whole family "A Happy Easter". 🐔 🥚 🐓 🐟
Hi Roland. Happy Easter to you! I have to boil eggs today, and my children and I will dye them tomorrow. :) Last weekend our neighbor came to teach us how to decorate Ukrainian eggs. Have you seen them? They're beautiful. (Though ours weren't so impressive! LOL)
Hi Jennifer, just wanted to say that your camera sometimes loses focus on your face and it becomes a little blurry. It may have to do with the camera being on auto focus. This wouldn't occur if it was on manual focus. Unless it is defective. Thanks for the lesson! :)
Hello Jennifer! Thanks a lot! Happy Easter to you! The lesson was hard-understandable for me. But I try to realize that theme:) I think it is difficult in many languages, for example, in my opinion, it is difficult in Russian especially about the hyphen.
Hi Sergei. We don't often combine two adjectives as you did with "hard-understandable." You can simply say it was a hard lesson or a lesson that was hard to understand. My advice is to learn collocations that I highlight and collocations you see in articles, books, etc. Start with the ones in this lesson. Create sentences. You can also search for them and see how they're used. This way the context will be more memorable. I like YouGlish.com and GetYarn.io. Model search: youglish.com/search/widely%20held%20beliefs?
Hi Jennifer My teacher insisted to never say "functions as an adjective but to say a modifier because adjective is not a function" but you said that anyways is she wrong?
People have different ways of talking about grammar. To say a word or phrase "functions as an adjective" is rather common. Do a Google search and place those words in quotation marks. Just a few examples: style.mla.org/more-than-one-part-of-speech/ grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adjectives/adjective-clause.html owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/gerunds_participles_and_infinitives/infinitives.html
Hi Jennifer, I just would like to ask you a question relating to the relative clauses. Although I know how to use them, sometimes I get confused. For example A substance of the thing from which it is taken Here the substance is taken from the thing or the thing is taken from the substance. I think the substance is taken from the thing, but not sure. I learnt that the relative pronoun usually identifies the noun that comes before it, but not always.
You can use "thing" as a head noun. "From which" can refer back to "thing." The wording in the examples is a little awkward. I think it would be clearer to say something like" This is the substance from which it was taken. The substance was extracted from that source. This is the source from which it was extracted.
@@Englishwithjennifer can an adjective modify another adjective in one sentece? It is a nice and beautiful "clever work". This "clever work" as a unit was described as a nice and beautiful thing. Thanks so much for such grammatical rules' explanation!
@Mutada Al Manifi In your example, you have three opinion adjectives. They all modify the same head noun "work." You need to separate those three adjectives with a comma and a conjunction: nice, beautiful and clever work. Only an adverb can modify an adjective. But you can have adjective complements like "nice to meet you." @Phumkiat Wanauraksakul See my comments to stunninglad 1 as well. "Lots of" is a quantifier. I place quantifiers in the category of determiners. Determiners are separate from adjectives.
You can look at that sentence a couple different ways. BE + past participle is indeed the structure we use for the passive. Some would identify BE SURPRISED as the stative passive (rather than the dynamic passive). I see "surprised" as a participial adjective that functions as the subject complement, much like, "I am happy" or "I am sad." "Surprised/surprising" can be considered participial adjectives when they modify a noun or pronoun.
What are they describing destroying, causing, killing and including ? And what kind of participles phrases. 1: A fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, destroying 93 tents in the town of Arsal, causing the displacement of around 100 Syrian families. 2: A farm tractor trolley carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and fallen into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, including children, say local officials
Yes, those participles work. I see them as reduced relative clauses: which caused >> causing (The fired caused this.) which killed >> killing (The farm tractor caused this.)
If you have more than one notebook, your sentence makes sense. You can reduce it: I can’t find my notebook containing all my addresses. (We'd likely change it to this: I can't find my notebook with all my addresses.) If you have only one notebook and it's like an address book, then you'll use a comma. The adjective clause offers additional (not necessary) information: I can’t find my notebook, which contains all my addresses.
@@Englishwithjennifer uou said participle's actions always refers back to the subject of the main clause here subject of the main clause "fire" i agree but second sentence unlike the above sentence.second sentence it seems not to refer subject it looks like place refers = where they died 16 people. We can say second sentence it didn't back to subject.
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Collocations (multiword expressions, etc.) were a hot topic at TESOL. I've made the effort to include them in past lessons, but I'll be more aware of the need to give conscious doses of them moving forward. ;)
@@Englishwithjennifer If I were to make a lesson on collocations. I'd go for a long list of common ones and show the combinations that are possible. It has the makings of a good series.
Yes, a series would be best. We can't overwhelm students with too much at once. I try to avoid this, but I know some lessons are packed with quite a lot!
Hi jennifer, I definitely found this lesson very useful.
I think this is what we all want " the structure", in this way of teaching we can decipher all abstruse word order, because I sometimes feel like reading mysterious structures especially when it comes to native English writers.
As a non-native English speaker I have so many questions about the word order but I know that you don't have much time to answer them all.
I hope that you always make lessons like this, and what I hope more is that you display a real article, which has some recondite arrangements, and then explain it step by step.
Thank you Jennifer, really thanks
Well, little by little we'll address structure and word order. Have you recently watched my 3-part lesson on the parts of speech? It's an overview of the building blocks.
@@Englishwithjennifer yes, I have, I don't miss any lesson you make, though, I have already known these parts of speech.
I love this kind of videos. As you said, it's an information-packed video. Very informative and helpful. Thanks, Jennifer. 👍
Thanks for the positive feedback. I felt I had more to say about modifiers, so this lesson resulted. Maybe we'll step away from grammar next time and do something a bit different. ;)
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Happy Easter, Mollie! Happy spring!
This is a super video. I do like this test and explain format.
Question 1 - Isn't 'lots of' also an adverb?
Question 2. I would definitely end with 'slowly' and not 'slow' as it is better grammatically: I read slowly; I write quickly.
Question 3. You won't be surprised to learn that I hyphenated 'heart-wrenching' and 'heart-warming.' A computerized spell-checker, like Google or Grammarly, will also let us know if such double-barreled names require a hyphen or not.
Question 4. I hyphenated 'hotly-debated but didn't hyphenate 'well informed' or 'well known.'
Question 5, I made a mistake with that one. The reduced adjective clause caught me out. I went for the second usage of 'married' being a verb. it would have been in this example: The American women married the English men. It varies in your example and with this one, which is similar: The women married before the end of the year also get the government benefits. The women who get married before the end of the year also get the government benefits.
Q1 - Someone else asked about "lots of." I put that in the category of quantifiers. www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/a-lot#a-lot__2
Q2 - I think Americans tend to be more relaxed in grammar, especially in informal conversation. Check out this sets of clips: getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=go%20slow
Q3 - I have to edit all the automatically generated captions. Punctuation is highly inaccurate, and I'm left editing every sentence and phrase. I tend to favor Merriam Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heartwarming and Longman www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/heartwarming
Q4 - Variation, variation, variation. ;)
Q5 - Ah such fun to delve into grammar!
Hope you can make it to the advanced live stream on Monday! :) You're welcome to help me out at the basic one as well.
@@Englishwithjennifer Yes, outside of the exam room, we can be a bit more relaxed and quite often incorrect grammar sounds funnier and less formal. I love the double negatives some Americans say. 'Don't you call here no more. I got your number and the police know where y'alls at.' Quite often the reply is something like this: 'Hey, we didn't call your ass!' - I really need to stop watching these prank call videos. I might end up talking like an angry American if I carry on watching those cotton-picking videos! LOL.
I'm still a bit confused about those quantifiers, Jennifer. The quantifying adverb is modifying verbs, adjectives and other adverbs, but it isn't an adjective for the noun:
There are some children in church.
A few people attended my latest lesson.
Many of her lessons were easy-to-follow, but some took a bit of learning.
There are a lot of videos on You Tube.
Lots of cars drive past my house during the day.
I had plenty of food in the house, so my guests were well fed.
To me, they simply look like they are acting as adjectives when there isn't an obvious verb, adjective or other adverb to modify.
Lots of new cars are seen on the road.
Casual talk is classed as less-formal speech.
We see there how 'Lots of' comes before 'new' so that is modifying that adjective. 'Less' is clearly modifying the verb 'speech' in my second example.
Grrr!
I'll check out those links. Thank you and well done for this excellent lesson.
Oh goodness! You've really watched too many prank call videos. LOL
Re: quantifiers. I group them together in my mind with determiners. Determiners would be the umbrella heading. Determiners go before adjectives when we build noun phrases, right? That's how I see it: determiner + adjective + head noun.
some children >> determiner + noun
many of her lessons >> determiner (quantifying phrase) + possessive adjective + noun
a bit of learning >> determiner (quantifying phrase) + gerund
a lot of videos >> determiner (quantifying phrase) + noun
less formal speech >> comparative adjective + noun
@@Englishwithjennifer Yes, that does make sense. I'm not expert at phrases as you know. They take ages to sink in with me. I was wondering with this example of heart-wrenching and spine-tingling. if we could say that the sentence in question has
compound compound modifiers: The film was both heart-wrenching and spine-tingling. I am painting my rooms white and magnolia..(compound adjectives).
I blame the people who make those funny soundboard prank call videos for getting me hooked. I particularly like Fred Herbert, who addresses everyone he calls sir, Gregory Stevens. and such like male terms.
Fred: "Is this Gregory Stevens, sir?"
Lady: "No, I am a ma'am. Stop calling me sir or Gregory Stevens. And stop calling this number!"
Fred: Wow! You're usually a much better gentleman than this!"
Another good one is Officer Ed Powell who also fails to recognize a woman's voice on the phone. In fact he doesn't recognize very much and drives those whom he calls up the wall!
"What's your second name, Mr, Curry?"
Hello Jenni
glad to be here again.
………
In English can we form words containing more than one noun modifier?:
World Cup opening match
Yes, in that case. Google "World Cup opening ceremony" and you'll see the phrase used in news headlines.
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Thank you for choosing to study with me. 😃
Thank you Jennifer! It's a great lesson with lot of ingredients. I really enjoyed it, and I look forward to more great lesson. Christian from Nigeria!
Glad you enjoyed studying with me. :)
Super lesson this one!
I still say that compound modifiers are hyphenated before the noun, even the ones ending 'ly.'. it was a brightly-lit room. It was a laugh-a-minute film. She shared a deeply-moving experience. This hotly-disputed legislation will be the main topic in the news for some time. There is little tolerance for badly-made decisions.
At the end of the day, I'm not going to get upset over hyphens. It's the use (or misuse) or commas that usually irks me. Ha ha.
@@Englishwithjennifer I agree. A lesson on the correct usage of commas gets my vote.
Very interesting class. Knowing more about the grammar and its practical use its always important for many of us!!! Thank you Jennifer!
So happy you found it interesting and useful, Susana. :)
Even though I watched the video twice, I've found it informative and useful. Thank you, Jennifer.
Glad it was helpful! Many videos are worth watching more than once. Do you take notes too? It's a good way to commit information to memory.
@@Englishwithjennifer I usually never have anything to take notes at the teach of my hand, but your vids have helped a lot many times.
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Thank you, Hilal. Enjoy your weekend!
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Happy weekend to you as well.
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Although modifiers can be really trick, the key to master them is studying hard and repeat daily the contact with them! 👏👏👏
Great lesson Teacher!
You can space out the review, but review is important. Glad you liked the lesson! Thanks.
Thank you very much for your kind teaching
I'm happy you're studying with me. :)
Really really fantastically explained
Thanks for the positive feedback!
How kind of my teacher
Thank you very much
Very useful lesson
Have a pretty day
You're welcome. Have a wonderful weekend!
Fantastic video. Thank you Jennifer.
Thank you, Sena. Take care.
Interesting lesson about, verbs, adjectives and nouns, to learn the modifiers I think is essential to understand this part of Grammar, salutations Jennifer I was a lot of days without say anything because I don't feel fine, all is a rsult of my illness.
So sorry you've been ill, Armando. I've actually been getting over something too. I lost my voice for a few days, but I'm gradually improving. I can hide it with some medicine and a hot cup of tea. :) Take care of yourself and know the lessons will be here when you're ready and able to study. :) Hope you can join the live stream on Monday. :)
Great lesson. So you can use the short forms in informal language. I prefer the - ly-forms. Hardly/ hard no. I know, but this is excellent. I'm a grammar freak. I love grammar. Yikes! 💖
It's good to have grammar lovers in the world. :)
Very instructive video. Thanks!
You're welcome.
It’s to my liking ; moreover , It appeals to me. You are the be-all and end-all. Henceforward, I must address you as Her Majesty the Queen of English language. Did you want a chalice of Prosecco wine? Thank you very much indeed. Far thee well, dearest Prof. A
LOL I'd love to be royalty for a day, but then I'm sure I'd tire of it. Someone else can have the burdensome title, but I'll accept a small glass of wine. Thank you. ;)
Very useful video, I enjoyed your content and help me to improve my English
Thanks for studying grammar with me, David.
How do I learn advanced reading without the need for help?
Reading long and new words I have difficulty reading them. What are their solutions?
And what books are best for reading development
Work your way up gradually. Try a site like ReadTheory.org. It will give you more advanced texts if you answer questions correctly.
Also, you can read online article and use the Chrome extension ReadLang for quick translations.
Have you also tried audio books? Read along and listen to another person read.
@@Englishwithjennifer thank you very much . I will certainly work on that.
But I want to learn spelling. I often find new and long words that I do not know
how to spell . And your advice to the fastest way to learn advanced reading for new learners
You might try online games like word searches and word scrambles. They help with spelling.
So important lesson
Thank you
You're welcome.
I am a tad perplexed about using compound modifiers. My question is when we use plural nouns as modifiers. Like ladies restroom and all that jazz.
Compound modifiers are two or more words put together. Noun modifiers are typically singular or noncount nouns used as adjectives: a music teacher, a piano bench, the student textbook, etc. "The ladies' room" is actually a plural noun in the possessive form used before the singular noun "room." www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ladies'%20room
@@Englishwithjennifer Thanks Jenny for being helpful with me. you are really a heart-warmingly helpful person. You made my ability sturdy when it comes to exploiting compound modifiers. But I have a query about using thumbs up. Why is it thumbs up not thumb up? Would you mind driving away this puzzle?
Good question. Again, we look for patterns. The typical pattern is to use singular nouns in compound modifiers. But we don't hyphenate "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." Also, I think it's because it came from a situation where more than one thumb was used to give the up or down signal.
There will always be exceptions. I was thinking of "a people person," meaning someone social and with good communication skills.
Its a set phrase. www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/not-people-person-you-will-one-after-reading-this.html
We don't say "a person person." Same idea. It refers to connections with many people. (Like using more than one thumb.) Does that make sense?
Thanks Jenny for your sincerely- replying- habit. This habit makes me laud u. Now it makes sense to me. And I no longer have any confusion. Love u & have a mind blowing day.😍
Very interesting and useful
Glad you liked it!
Hi Jennifer what's up
I'm glad to see you again
As always your videos are fantastic and very helpful
I learn a lot of them
Thanks a lot my dear teacher and have a lovely weekend you and your family 😉
Hi there, Aparecido. Glad you liked the long lesson. Take care and see you again soon!
@@Englishwithjennifer Happy Easter to you
Happy Easter!
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Happy Easter! Happy spring!
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Thank you!
❤️ Hi Jennifer. Thank you for sending this lesson. We're already started the holiday! I can't think about learning English now. But wishing you and for a whole family "A Happy Easter". 🐔 🥚 🐓 🐟
Hi Roland. Happy Easter to you! I have to boil eggs today, and my children and I will dye them tomorrow. :) Last weekend our neighbor came to teach us how to decorate Ukrainian eggs. Have you seen them? They're beautiful. (Though ours weren't so impressive! LOL)
❤️Where you get Ukrainian eggs? No, I haven't! I have seen Ukrainian chickens but not their eggs. 😄😄😄
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Thank you so much
You're most welcome!
Hi Jennifer, just wanted to say that your camera sometimes loses focus on your face and it becomes a little blurry.
It may have to do with the camera being on auto focus. This wouldn't occur if it was on manual focus. Unless it is defective.
Thanks for the lesson! :)
Yes, I need to work on this. Thank you for your understanding. One day I'd love to upgrade. My camera is quite old.
Why did you not count the word "lots" as an adverb in your example?
Hi. I'd label "lots of" as a quantifier. For this lesson (as I recall), I didn't wish to bring quantifiers into the discussion.
Hello Jennifer! Thanks a lot! Happy Easter to you! The lesson was hard-understandable for me. But I try to realize that theme:) I think it is difficult in many languages, for example, in my opinion, it is difficult in Russian especially about the hyphen.
Hi Sergei. We don't often combine two adjectives as you did with "hard-understandable." You can simply say it was a hard lesson or a lesson that was hard to understand. My advice is to learn collocations that I highlight and collocations you see in articles, books, etc. Start with the ones in this lesson. Create sentences. You can also search for them and see how they're used. This way the context will be more memorable.
I like YouGlish.com and GetYarn.io.
Model search: youglish.com/search/widely%20held%20beliefs?
Thank you again! I got it. I start to learn collocations following your advice.
I appreciate it ma'am
Thank you for watching.
Hi Jennifer
My teacher insisted to never say "functions as an adjective but to say a modifier because adjective is not a function" but you said that anyways is she wrong?
People have different ways of talking about grammar. To say a word or phrase "functions as an adjective" is rather common. Do a Google search and place those words in quotation marks.
Just a few examples:
style.mla.org/more-than-one-part-of-speech/
grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adjectives/adjective-clause.html
owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/gerunds_participles_and_infinitives/infinitives.html
Thanks a lot
You're welcome.
Hi, Jenifer,
Is lots adverb to modify verb to meet? If not, what does it do in that sentence?
"Lots of" is a quantifying expression, like A LOT OF, MANY, A GOOD NUMBER OF, etc. It answers the question "How many?"
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Hi Jeniffer, Thank you for great lessons. For the first question, isn't "lot" also an adverb?
"Lot" is a noun. "A lot" can be an adverb that means "often."
www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/lot
There are other uses.
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Hi Jennifer, I just would like to ask you a question relating to the relative clauses.
Although I know how to use them, sometimes I get confused.
For example
A substance of the thing from which it is taken
Here the substance is taken from the thing or the thing is taken from the substance.
I think the substance is taken from the thing, but not sure.
I learnt that the relative pronoun usually identifies the noun that comes before it, but not always.
You can use "thing" as a head noun.
"From which" can refer back to "thing."
The wording in the examples is a little awkward. I think it would be clearer to say something like"
This is the substance from which it was taken.
The substance was extracted from that source.
This is the source from which it was extracted.
@@Englishwithjennifer you're right, I asked you because I've seen it in Merriam-Webster dictionary
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@@Englishwithjennifer can an adjective modify another adjective in one sentece? It is a nice and beautiful "clever work". This "clever work" as a unit was described as a nice and beautiful thing. Thanks so much for such grammatical rules' explanation!
Hi Jenifer, is lots adverb modifying to meet?if not, what does it do in this sentence?
@Mutada Al Manifi In your example, you have three opinion adjectives. They all modify the same head noun "work." You need to separate those three adjectives with a comma and a conjunction: nice, beautiful and clever work. Only an adverb can modify an adjective. But you can have adjective complements like "nice to meet you."
@Phumkiat Wanauraksakul See my comments to stunninglad 1 as well. "Lots of" is a quantifier. I place quantifiers in the category of determiners. Determiners are separate from adjectives.
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Madam,I think surprised is a verb.The verb is in passive.cannot we use the word as a verb?am I right or wrong
You can look at that sentence a couple different ways. BE + past participle is indeed the structure we use for the passive. Some would identify BE SURPRISED as the stative passive (rather than the dynamic passive). I see "surprised" as a participial adjective that functions as the subject complement, much like, "I am happy" or "I am sad." "Surprised/surprising" can be considered participial adjectives when they modify a noun or pronoun.
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What are they describing destroying, causing, killing and including ? And what kind of participles phrases.
1: A fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, destroying 93 tents in the town of Arsal, causing the displacement of around 100 Syrian families.
2: A farm tractor trolley carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and fallen into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, including children, say local officials
Yes, those participles work. I see them as reduced relative clauses:
which caused >> causing (The fired caused this.)
which killed >> killing (The farm tractor caused this.)
@@Englishwithjennifer can reduced clause take a comma e.g I can’t find my notebook that contains all my addresses.
If you have more than one notebook, your sentence makes sense. You can reduce it:
I can’t find my notebook containing all my addresses.
(We'd likely change it to this: I can't find my notebook with all my addresses.)
If you have only one notebook and it's like an address book, then you'll use a comma. The adjective clause offers additional (not necessary) information:
I can’t find my notebook, which contains all my addresses.
@@Englishwithjennifer uou said participle's actions always refers back to the subject of the main clause here subject of the main clause "fire" i agree but second sentence unlike the above sentence.second sentence it seems not to refer subject it looks like place refers = where they died 16 people. We can say second sentence it didn't back to subject.
I need aEnglish name,could you give me some advise.thank you
Do you mean a name to call yourself in English?
If they ask me from your teacher, I will say Jennifer thank you.
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The subject of collocations in English is also fascinating and worthy of a lesson or three:
Collocations (multiword expressions, etc.) were a hot topic at TESOL. I've made the effort to include them in past lessons, but I'll be more aware of the need to give conscious doses of them moving forward. ;)
@@Englishwithjennifer If I were to make a lesson on collocations. I'd go for a long list of common ones and show the combinations that are possible. It has the makings of a good series.
Yes, a series would be best. We can't overwhelm students with too much at once. I try to avoid this, but I know some lessons are packed with quite a lot!
@@Englishwithjennifer I suppose we could say that 'common collocations' is itself a collocations and could also be the title for the series.
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