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Hey guys!
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Welcome to Ling ua Marina!
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Welcome to our back - to - school class.
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This class is going to be about basic grammar.
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Something that you should have learned while back at school.
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You might have forgotten basic grammar, but this is why I am here.
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Because we 're going to talk about really important things.
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Part s of speech.
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N oun, pronoun, verb.
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What does that mean?
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Basic t enses that you have to know.
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そして、英語の音声です。
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英語の部分は、文字を拳げてください。
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文字は、文字を拳げてください。
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英語の名字は、文字を拳げてください。
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ヘドアを押してください。
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いったら、また、プラルで単語の表記を書く。
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バルを使って言っています。
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言語の言語は、言語の言語を使ってください。
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Listen carefully.
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Ad ject ives are used to describe nouns.
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Because we 're gonna talk about ad verbs later.
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And those are used to describe actions or adject ives.
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This is where it gets a bit complicated, but I really want you to understand the difference between adject ives
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and ad verbs because sometimes you use them in a wrong way, and I use them in the wrong way sometimes, but we want to be gramm atically correct.
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So, adjective is used to describe nouns or pronouns, right?
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We use adject ives to answer questions like which one, what kind of, how many, how much.
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And the examples are old,
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new, beautiful, smart, etc. Ad verbs describing actions, right?
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Ad verbs answer questions like when, where, how.
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And very often our ad verbs end with り .
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Care fully, slowly, but not always.
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Fast, it 's also an ad verb.
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Finally.
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Now fast can be both adjective and ad verb.
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If we look at a couple of examples, he is fast.
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We use fast to describe a pronoun then it 's an adjective.
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But if we say he runs really fast, we 're actually describing a verb and in this case it 's a net verb.
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Just so you know.
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Then we have our prep os itions.
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We place a prep osition before a noun to modify the phrase.
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About, above, across, on, etc. Con jun ction.
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This is a joining word that we use to connect sentences or different parts of one sentence.
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But, and, however, after, although,
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etc. And the last but not the least, articles, a and the.
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I know that you mix them up.
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If you do mix them up, I have a video explaining how to not mix them up.
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A or n and the.
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Basically, we use a or n to mention a thing that we haven 't talked about before.
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ここはお客さんにありますが、
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私はその飲み立てがあります。
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日本語の水も使っているときのことを多く、
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お客さんに伝えているてもらいます。
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人がありましたがこのメ
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リオレンジンスについて、
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リンジンスがお話をさせていただきます。
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ともにも多くこのサイズに話をします。
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マリナとは日本語の音声です。
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ありましたが、
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学習ができることもできていくら、
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たくさんかわりません。
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さて、きとちが論いたら手に行きましたよ。
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教育を作っている方ができたくちゃ。
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学ぶつかを書いていくモ
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ノニ ー ズ 2 通っていくとは、
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また、
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アカタバ ー スフタンレスチャク出してあって、
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この動画をご覧ください。
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正しい言葉はイギリスに
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アクセスしないだけど、
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私たちの言葉は全ての言
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葉がとても全くなったのです。
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しかし、これは学生の基本語の言葉の説明です。
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しかし、
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私はその言葉を説明しているのに、
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アクセスなどの言葉だから。
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Present Simple T ense は、
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ヘルゼリ ー の言葉はとても違います。
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飲んだりと飲んだりと飲んだり、
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飲んだりと飲んだりと飲んだり、
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続く、寺の言葉は 5 時分かり、
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などではないし、アクセスなどの言葉です。
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のとき、
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アイズはクリックアイズ
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を使って文に入っています。
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インマメ ー カンと言うこ
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とに進めると言ってもっと言うものです。
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アイズは D ring と言うことがないと言うことです。
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インマメ ー カンと言うことは作られています。
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インマメ ー カンと言うことがあります。
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アイズの前にすることで、
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その場所の調べ、
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内容があるように言われています。
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So in this case, ice is cold, our verb is is.
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We use past tense to describe something that happened in the past.
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So basically your verb gets either ed on the end, I walked, or if it 's an irregular verb, then you just have to learn it.
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She went home.
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He drank a glass of beer.
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And the future tense is of course used to describe our future.
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I just put WILL before a verb.
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She will come back.
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Let 's talk about word would .
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In a sentence in English.
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First of all, we have a subject which is a noun or pronoun.
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Then we have a verb or action.
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And then if we need it we have an object, which is normally a noun or pronoun as well.
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Let me give you a quick example.
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She smiled at a boy.
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And then if we need to describe our action with an ad verb, remember ad verbs describe verbs, we put it right before the verb.
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For example, she briefly smiled at a boy.
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So the ad verb comes here.
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And then if we have adject ives that describe a noun, then they come right before the noun.
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She smiled at a little boy.
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Of course, this rule is very basic.
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The more you learn, the better you become.
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There is one last thing I wanted to tell you.
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Don 't make this mistake.
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Let 's look at these three sentences.
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They often play tennis.
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Correct.
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They play tennis often.
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Also correct.
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They play often tennis.
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This is incorrect.
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Because ad verb can never be put between a verb.
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この動画は、
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この動画を
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見てください。

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