TOEFL Junior A2 Grammar nouns and aritcles explain

TOEFL Junior A2 Grammar nouns explain

Noun position

• After articles: A boy plays at the pond.

• After possessives I am happy with my computer.

• After adjectives He took me to an expensive restaurant

• After quantifiers He took me to an expensive restaurant

A functions

• As subjects: The needle is silver and sharp

• As objects: Susan walked the dog.

  I am good at math.

• As complements: Sandra is a doctor.

  They elected him President.

verbs and adjectives cannot be in the "noun" position

How can you tell the differ between this and that?

difference

Will you tell the true about why you missed school?

truth

Multiple Choice

choose the correct answer to complete each sentence

The baseball ................ spoke at our school

• player

• play

• played

Multiple Choice

choose the correct answer

There are a few. ..................

• stripes

• stripe

• stripy

Multiple Choice

choose the correct answer

Hardworking is a key to ................

• succeed

• success

• successful

Indefinite Article: "A/ An" form

• We use "a" before a consonant sound.

  We use "an" before .a vowel sound.

• My sister has a letter to write. Can I have an apple?

• Can I have an apple?

• plural countable nouns/uncountable nouns (without 'a/an') My father drinks coffee every morning .

A/An uses

• Description: This is a big house.

• Classification The World Tower is a building in New York.

• Generalization A whale is a very large mammal that lives in the sea.

• 
  

A/ An

Fixed Expressions

All of a sudden, we got a great idea.

What a shame! What happened then?

Multiple Choice

choose the correct answer

The boy is feeding........................bird at the park.

• ---

• a

• an

Multiple Choice

choose the correct item

Picasso is .................famous painter.

• ----

• a

• an

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct

This book has ...................interesting story.

• ---

• a

• an

Multiple Choice

choose the correct answer

Hardworking is a key to ................

• succeed

• success

• successful

Definite article "the" for

• Singular The clown was playing with the balloon.

• plural Danny is singing to impress the girls.

• uncountable Countless ants were gathering on the sugar.

"The" uses

" We use 'the' to talk about somebody or something when the speaker and listener both know about this person or thing.

Uses

• You know which one(s): --Did you enjoy the party?

• You know which one(s): -- 

  the sun, the moon, the earth, the world

• You know which one(s):-- John is the tallest student in my class

• Ordinal numbers: -- It was the first time I've met her.

• Things in general:-- The telephone is of little use in this town.

• Things in general:-- They have the same opinion

• We do not use 'the' with uncountable or plural nouns to talk about things in general.

• Life is complicated. NOT-( The life is complitcated)

fixed expression

• Everything will turn out okay in the end.

• We bow to the teacher at the beginning of class.

• If that's the case, what am I supposed to do?

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct answer

________is a metal.

• A gold

• The gold

• Gold

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct answer

This is __________last time I can see her.

• a

• the

• -

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct answer

The clothes are ________ same size.

• a

• the

• -