Grammar, Lesson 5 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 V/The Verb To Have Simple Present Affirmative Negative Interrogative I have. I do not have. Do I have? You have. You do not have. Do you have? He has. He does not have. Does he have? She has. She does not have. Does she have? It has. It does not have. Does it have? We have. We do not ha

Grammar, Lesson 3 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 III/ PAST SIMPLE TENSE The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action durati

Grammar, Lesson 4 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 Grammar; Lesson 4: The Verb To Be; Part Two Exercise 8 : MCQ about to be in different tenses of the verb "to be" in different tenses: Which of the following is the correct present simple tense of "to be" for the subject "we"? a) I am b) you are c) he/she/it is d) we are e) they are Answ

Grammar, Lesson 4 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 IV/ The Verb To Be 1/The Present Simple of the verb to be The verb to be is the most important verb in the English language. It is difficult to use because it is an irregular verb in almost all of its forms. In the simple present tense, to be is conjugated as follows: A/Affirmative form

Lesson 3 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 3/What does mean Morphology? In linguistics, morphology /mɔːrˈfɒlədʒi/ is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Morpholog

Grammar ; Lesson 1 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 Present Simple Tense The forms of the present simple A/The affirmative form of the present simple: I, you, we, they} work. He, she, it }works. Remember the verbs in the third person singular (he, she and it) always take an "s". Examples: "he plays, she sings, it works..." Tinhinane and

Grammar, Lesson 5 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 V/The Verb To Have, Part Two 8/Some true or false statements related to the verb "to have": "Have" is an irregular verb in English. (True/False) In the present simple tense, "have" is conjugated as "has" for third-person singular subjects. (True/False) "Had" is the past participle of th

Lesson 4 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 4/ Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics The study of language is often divided into: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. And the distinction between syntax (sentence form) and semantics (word and sentence meaning) is fundamental to the study of language. Syntax is the

Grammar, Lesson 2 3rd Year Students in Linguistics, DLCA, 2023 II/The simple future tense: 1/The forms of the simple future: The simple future is formed as follows: will / 'll + verb will = 'll A/The affirmative form of the simple future: I, you, he, she, it, we, they} will / ''ll } go. Examples: 1/I think I'll buy a new computer. 2/I will open the

Lesson 2 3rd Year Students in Linguistics DLCA 2023 What does mean phonetics ? Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of human speech and their production, combination, description and representation by written symbols. Until now, the boundaries between the disciplines of phonetics and phonology aren't always sharply defi