CLASSROOM C - CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH 101

There are many forms of English, such as British English, American English, etc.

Within each are the various dialects or accents and regional forms or dialects. A southern drawl (accent) is the type of Enlish commonly associated with the Southern United States. Each area has its own way of expressing words and pronounciations can vary widely.

There is a difference between Academic and Colloquial English and we will get to the differences later. Colloquial or slang is the form of the language as it is commonly spoken as opposed to the Academic which is the more formal (and less commonly used) form of English or any other language.

English is comprised of a series of word structures...

Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives

for example.

These are defined as:

NOUN: noun (noun): a word (except a pronoun) that identifies a person, place or thing, or names one of them (proper noun) The simple definition is: a person, place or thing. Here are some examples: person: man, woman, teacher, John, Mary. place: home, office, town, countryside, America.

PRONOUN: A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Examples: he, she, it, they, someone, who. Pronouns can do all of the things that nouns can do. They can be subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, object of the preposition, and more.

VERB:  A verb is a kind of word (part of speech) that tells about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence has a verb. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense. Every language in the world has verbs, but they are not always used in the same ways.

ADVERB:  An adverb is a part of speech that provides greater description to a verb, adjective, another adverb, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence. ... Adverbs are intensifiers and they can even come in the form of an adverb phrase. That just means you're looking at two or more words that act as an adverb.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea. An adjective is a word that gives more information about the noun that goes with it. It is a part of speech. Often, the adjective is before the noun it describes.