Capital vs Capitol - English Grammar - Teaching Tips
In this video, we explain the difference between the usage of "capital" and "capitol". These two terms are often confused due to their similar spelling and pronunciation. The word ?capital? is used to refer to a capital letter, a city that serves as a center of government and also wealth in the form of money or property. A good example sentence would be: In American schools, the capital letter "A" means your work was at least 90% correct. This sentence uses 'capital' to refer to a capitalized letter, 'A' in this case. Tokyo is the capital of Japan. In this example, capital refers to the capital city of Japan. The business did not have enough capital to buy the new building. Here, capital means money or wealth. "Capitol" spelled with an ?o? on the other hand refers to the actual capitol buildings in Washington, D.C. and in each US state. We can therefore say: The United States Capitol building is located in Washington, D.C.
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Modal Auxiliary Verbs Modals are can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, must, have to, have got to, need to, need not and ought t.
They are used before other verbs to add meaning to the main verb and may express obligation, possibility, probability, permission, prohibition, ability and advic.
Modals may express formality and do not change in form according to perso.
Modals are followed by a verb in its base for.
A table is give.
Teaching ideas include role play such as doctor-patient, establishing rules for a hotel or guess the meaning of traffic sign.
Passive voice There are two voices in English: active and passiv.
In the passive, the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb with the focus not on the agent (which may be absent from the sentence) and only transitive verbs (verbs followed by an object) are used in the passiv.
For.
Auxiliary verb ?be? + past participle A table followed of example.
Perfect continuous is not, notably, used in the passiv.
Passive is used when it is not known, not important or we don?t want to say exactly who performs an action or used with ?by? when the speaker or writer wants the listener or reader to know who performs an actio.
Teaching ideas include cutting up active and passive sentences and matching, general knowledge quizzes using the passiv.
Relative clauses A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a ver.
An independent clause is a complete sentenc.
A dependent clause is not a complete sentenc.
A relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a nou.
It describes, identifies or gives further information about a nou.
The information given in a non-defining relative clause is not essential to the meaning but a defining relative clause is essential to the meanin.
Phrasal verbs or multi-word verbs consist of a verb plus one or two particles (preposition or adverb + preposition.
There are three types:
1. Intransitive phrasal verbs which cannot be followed by a direct objec.
2. Transitive separable phrasal verbs where an object pronoun can only come between the verb and the particle and an object noun can come either between the verb and the particle or after the particl.
3. Transitive inseparable phrasal verbs where the object phrase or object pronoun both come after the particle and may be best learned by vocabular.
This unit reinforced my grammar skills and will be useful in future teaching activitie.
