Teach English in Springdale - TESOL Courses

During this Unit, Unit Two, I learned of the different parts of speech. To be more specific, I learned and reviewed nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, auxiliary verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, and prepositions. I learned that there is a distinguishable difference between countable and noncountable nouns. I learned that I have been taking many of these characteristics of the English language for granted my entire life, and that I have never once thought about how I use different articles Before words but not before other ones. An example of this would be saying ?I am in college.? instead of ?I am in the college.? To a native English speaker, one obviously sounds more correct than the other, but to someone learning English, I can see how this would become a challenge. I reviewed transitive and intransitive verbs, which was something I never really took the time to understand in high school. Transitive verbs are followed directly by an object while intransitive verbs cannot, no matter how hard you try, be followed by an object. I learned that when it comes to past tense, we have many, many irregular verbs. Actually, we just have a lot of irregularities in general. I can see that teaching others verb irregularities can be one of the greatest challenges in teaching English. I learned how to label auxiliary verbs. I also began coming to a better understanding of adverbs, and when and how they are used. Perhaps the greatest thing I learned from this lesson was that there is a difference between present participle and gerunds. I had always thought that these were essentially the same thing. This unit taught me the differences. Altogether, I have begun to learn of the different parts of speech and writing in the English language. ", Grammar has always been the one area that I have had to really study before teaching my students. Somehow