EMANUELA BUCUR

WORKSHEET – UNIT 2

Task 1 - Write 5 examples of each of the following:

Countable noun table school, door, tent, apple

Uncountable noun milk, chalk, gold, coffee, paper

Adjective nice, beautiful, tall, good, sweet

Adverb well, bad, beautifully, fast, here

Preposition on, in, near, at, above

Verb come, go, fly, enter, read

Pronoun he, him, his, she, herself

Infinitive to taste, to drive, to read, to be, to sleep

Gerund diving, speaking, teaching, printing, running

Comparative adjective smaller, taller, better, more interesting, more

attractive

Superlative adjective worst, best, shortest, most intelligent, most

expensive

Article (3 only) the, a, an

Conjunction

Task 2 – Identify the parts of speech in the following sentence:

I usually go swimming with my best friend and his rather unusual

girlfriend.

a) I - pronoun

b) usually -adverb

c) go -verb

d) swimming -gerund

e) with -preposition

f) my -possessive adjective

g) best -adjective

h) friend -noun

i) and -conjunction

j) his -possessive pronoun

k) rather -adverb

l) unusual -adjective

m) girlfriend - noun
 Task 3 – State the differences between the following, and give an
example of each:

a) Adjectives and adverbs: adjectives describe nouns and adverbs

add meaning to the action, quality or state
a beautiful girl
she sang beautifully

b) Nouns and pronouns: a noun names people, objects, or states

and a pronoun is used instead of a noun
door
it

Task 4 – Explain the following parts of speech as you would to a

student. An example sentence would help to clarify your explanation:

a) Conjunctions – join words or groups in a sentence.

He is tall and handsome.

b) Gerunds –the ing-form of a verb that is used as a noun.

Smoking is dangerous.

c) Verbs – a word that refers to an action or a state and that is used

with a subject to form a sentence.
She travels by bus.
c) Comparative adjectives –the form of the adjective that we use when we
compare 2 nouns.
Ana is shorter than Patricia but Patricia is more attractive than
Ana.

e) Prepositions –a word that connects a noun or a pronoun to another

word in the sentence.
We leave at 6 o clock.

f) Superlative adjectives –the form of the adjective that is used to express the
greatest degree of a particular quality.
The best students go to university.

Task 5 – What do articles do in a sentence? Give examples of your own.

Articles are used in front of nouns and show how well the
speaker knows the noun or how specific he or she refers to the noun.
A or an are used when we refer to any member of the group, when we
speak about a noun in general.
A dog came at me.

The is used when we refer to a specific noun. It is familiar to the

speaker because it was previously mentioned it or because it is unique.
The dog seemed fierce.
The also has a set of rules to be followed when using it. It comes
before names of rivers, geographical areas, deserts, names of cinemas,
nationalities, names of families in the plural.

There is also a zero article that is used to refer to something in a

general sense.
Children can be naughty.