Act= Action (Noun), Actor (Noun), Actress (Noun)
To act (Verb), To activate (Verb), Activators (Verb),
Inactive (adjective), Active (adjective).
Agree= Agreement (Noun), Agree (Verb), Disagree (Verb), Agreeable (Adjective).
Bore= Boring (adjective), Boredom (Noun), Bored (Adjective).
Continue= Continuous(ly) (Adjective), Continuity (Noun).
Satisfy= Satisfaction (Noun), Satisfactory (Adjective), Unsatisfactory (Adjective)
Hope= Hopeful (Adjective), Hopeless (Adjective)
Decide= Decision (Noun), Decisive (Adjective), Decidedly (Adverb).
Phrasal Verbs:
Take off= He took off his shoe.
Took off from the diving board.
Cut in= Interrupt (transitive and intransitive verb to interrupt when somebody is speaking).
Cut us in on the profits.
Do in= Do well in health.
You are doing my head is!
Get on= She gets on well with the neighbours.
Get on the train.
Go off= We decided to go off early.
Tea goes off very early in this weather.
Make up= I have made up a packed lunch.
It takes her two hours to make up for the role.
Set up= Claims she was set up.
Her family set him up in business.
Compound Noun:
Birthday-party, Lie-back, Soft-food, Trade union, Hardware, Take-over, Junk-in, Alarm clock, Police station, Life-jacket.
Question: What is the superlative and how is it formed?
Answer:
Superlative
The superlative form of an adverb is used to say what thing or person does something to the greater degree within a group or of its kind. Superlatives can be preceded by 'the'. In general, the superlative forms of adverbs are the same as for superlative forms of adjective.
The rule for forming the superlative of an adverb is if it has the same form as an adjective add the suffix -est to the end.
For example:-
Fast - "Jill ran the fastest."
When an adverb ends in -ly, most is put in front of the adverb.
For example:-
Frequently - "Jill did her homework most frequently."
The following irregular adverbs are exceptions:-
'well' becomes 'the best'
'badly' becomes 'the worst'
For example:
"Jill did the best in the test."
"Jack did the worst in the test."
Question: What is an auxiliary verb and how many are there in English?
Answer:
Auxiliary Verb:
An auxiliary verb is a verb that combines two characters.
The three most common auxiliary verbs are:
be, do and have
be= am/is/are, do= did/does, have= has/had.
I am leaving = Leaving is the main verb. Am is the auxiliary.
She has arrived = Arrived is the main verb. Has is the auxiliary.
Do you smoke? = Smoke is the main verb. Do is the auxiliary
Question: When do we use apostrophes?
Answer:
The apostrophe is one of the most misunderstood and misused pieces of punctuation in the English language.
The apostrophe has three uses:
1) To form possessives of nouns
2) To show the omission of letters
3) To indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.
How to make a noun possessive: To see if we need to make a possessive, turn the phrase around and make it an "of the..." phrase. For example:
the boy's hat = the hat of the boy three days' journey = journey of three days
Once you've determined whether you need to make a possessive, follow these rules to create one.
1. add 's to the singular form of the word (even if it ends in -s): the owner's car; James's hat
2. add 's to the plural forms that do not end in -s:
the children's game; the geese's honking
3. add ' to the end of plural nouns that end in -s:
houses' roofs; three friends' letters
Showing omission of letters: Apostrophes are used in contractions. A
contraction is a word (or set of numbers) in which one or more letters (or
numbers) have been omitted. The apostrophe shows this omission. Contractions
are common in speaking and in informalwriting. To use an apostrophe to create
a contraction, place an apostrophe where the omitted letter(s) would go. Here
are some examples:
don't = do not
I'm = I am
he'll = he will
Forming plurals of lowercase letters: Apostrophes are used to form plurals of
letters that appear in lowercase; here the rule appears to be more typographical
than grammatical, e.g. "three ps" versus "three p's." To form the plural of a
lowercase letter, place 's after the letter. There is no need for apostrophes
indicating a plural on capitalized letters, numbers, and symbols (though keep in
mind that some editors, teachers, and professors still prefer them).
Here are some examples:
p's and q's = a phrase indicating politeness, from "mind your pints and quarts"?
Nita's mother constantly stressed minding one's p's and q's.
the 1960s = the years in decade from 1960 to 1969
The 1960s w the 1960s = the years in decade from 1960 to 1969
The 1960s were a time of great social unrest.
ere a time of great social unrest.
Question: What is a Modal verb and how many are there in English?
Answer:
Modal verbs are used to express ideas such as possibility, intention, obligation and necessity.
Common Modal Verbs : Can, Could, May, Might, Must, Ought to, Shall, Should, Will, Would.
Question: What do Past simple and Past Participle form of burn, dream and dwell, Learn?
Answer:
Burn: Burned (Past simple), Burned (Past Participle).
Dream: Dreamed (Past Simple), Dreamed (Past Participle).
Dwell: Dwelt (Past Simple), Dwelt (Past Participle).
Learn: Learnt (Past Simple), Learnt (Past Participle).
Question: What is the Past simple and Past participle form of the verb Spin?
Answer:
Spin= Spun (Past simple), Spun (Past Participle).
Question: What is the Past simple and Past participle form of the verb Overdo?
Answer:
Overdo= Overdid (Past simple), Overdone (Past Participle).
Question: How do you say £27.36?
Answer: Twenty-Seven pound thirty six pence.
Question: How do you say the year 1998?
Answer: Year Nineteen hundred ninety eight?
Question: How do you say the year 2000?
Answer: Twenty first century?
Question: What is the International Telephone code for the United Kingdom?
Answer: 0044.
Question: What are most important judges in Britain?
Answer: Lord chancellor?
Question: How do you play cricket?
Answer:
Steps:
Choose the batsman and bowler. A team consists of eleven players. Depending on his or her skills, a player may be selected as batsman or bowler.
Choose the wicket keeper. Teams nearly always include a specialist wicket-keeper because of the importance of this fielding position. A wicketkeeper is almost equivalent to a catcher in baseball without the fingering signals.
Choose the umpire. Two on-field umpires preside over a match. One umpire will stand behind the wicket at the end from which the ball is bowled, and adjudicate on most decisions. The other will stand near the fielding position called "square leg", which offers a side view of the batsman, and assist on decisions for which he has a better view. When you choose the umpire, he or she should come from the players, who will be resting or waiting for his or her number to come and play. But try to select the person who knows the basic rules from all 42 Laws of Cricket.
Choose the match type
There are 3 types of matches:
ODI (One-Day International) and
Test Match - The most common one is ODI, because in this type of match, each team has to play 50 over’s (6 Balls per over) and it is played for one-day only.
Twenty/20 matches are the same as ODI's but only contain 20 over’s.
Friendly Match - This match doesn't contain over’s, and the fielding team has to get out all the other players on the opposite team.
Choose which team plays what. Selecting which team will play what (batting/bowling-fielding), is decided by making a coin toss between the captains of the two teams. The captain who wins decides which play to take whether batting or bowling-fielding.
Start playing!
Question: Do British people usually shake hands when they meet?
Answer: adults usually shake hands only when they meet for the first time.
Question: What is a ‘full English Breakfast ‘?
Answer: "A full English breakfast" usually consists of bacon, sausages, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, sausage and fried bread.
Question: What do British people remember on November 5th?
Answer:
On November 5th British people remember the day when a plot was foiled to blow up the houses of parliament and the King, James I. The conspirators were horribly put to death, and one of them, Guido Fawkes, (known as Guy Fawkes) as the fall guy (is that where the expression comes from?) is remembered in the tradition of burning his effigy on top of the bonfire on November 5th. You see many children hanging around shopping centres etc. with their home made dummies (known as Guys) asking for "A penny for the guy" in order to buy fireworks.
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