Using Can | English Grammar | Blog learner

Using 'Can'

First, I'll say a sentence with "can" slowly and clearly.

• Come on. I can show you the beach.

Now I'm going to speed it up slightly.

• Come on. I kin show ya the beach.

When I said it quickly,  I said "kin" instead of "can.".

• Come on. I kin show ya the beach.
• I kin show ya the beach.

For practice, read these sentences slowly changing "can" to "kin."

• I kin come later.
• I kin come now.
• I kin come in an hour.
• I kin come in a little while
• I kin come in five minutes.
• I kin see people on the beach.
• I kin see him walkun on the beach.
• I kin see them talkun on the beach.
• You kin see a lota gulls on the beach.
• She kin see a lota gulls on the beach.
  
• Use to talk about Abitity, request ( unpolite)

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Using Can | English Grammar | Blog learner

Using 'Can' First, I'll say a sentence with "can" slowly and clearly. Come on. I can show you the beach. ...

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Adjective

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns or pronouns.

For example:-

The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".

The good news is that the form of an adjective does not change. It does not matter if the noun being modified is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object.

Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact adjectives - can't be argued with). Some adjectives show what somebody thinks about something or somebody - nice, horrid, beautiful etc (opinion adjectives - not everyone may agree).

If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, or how many, you need an adjective to be able to answer.

There are different types of adjectives in the English language:

1)­ Numeric: six, one hundred and one 
2)­Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough 
3)­Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc. 
4)­Possessive: my, his, their, your 
5)­Interrogative: which, whose, what 
6)­Demonstrative: this, that, those, these 

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Adjective

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns or pronouns. For example:- The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes...

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Common noun and Proper noun

   Nouns name people, places, and things. Every noun can further be classified as common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive features:
  1) it will name a specific [usually a one-of-a-kind] item, and
  2) it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence.

Check out the chart below:

Common Noun
writer,
teacher
beagle
cookie
city
restaurant
document
school.

Proper Noun

Herman Melville,
Mrs. Hacket,
Snoopy,
Oreo,
OrlandoOrlando,
Tito's Taco Palace,
Declaration of Independence,
University of Southern California,

Read the following sentences. Notice the difference between the common and proper nouns.

Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth.

Cookies = common noun; Oreo = proper noun.

Charlie had wanted an easy teacher for his composition class, but he got Mrs. Hacket, whose short temper and unreasonable demands made the semester a torture.

Teacher = common noun; Mrs. Hacket = proper noun.

Gloria wanted to try a new restaurant, so Richard took her to Tito's Taco Palace, where no one dips into the hot sauce until the drinks have arrived at the table.

Restaurant = common noun;
Tito's Taco Palace = proper noun.

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Common noun and Proper noun

   Nouns name people, places, and things. Every noun can further be classified as common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive featur...

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Noun

  It's not easy to describe a noun. In simple terms, nouns are "things" (and verbs are "actions").

  Like food. Food (noun) is something you eat (verb).
     Or
happiness. Happiness (noun) is something you want (verb).

Another example is "human being"". A human being (noun) is something you are (verb).

   What are Nouns?

The simple definition is: a person, place or thing, teacher, school, book

  Types:

Countable Nouns, dog/dogs.
Uncountable Nouns : rice, hair(s)

Proper Nouns (Names)

Do we say "Atlantic Ocean" or "the Atlantic Ocean"? Should I write "february" or "February"?
Shirley, Mr Jeckyll, Thailand, April, Sony

Possessive 's

Adding 's or ' to show possession.
John's car, my parents' house

Noun as Adjective

Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun is "acting as" an adjective.
love story, tooth-brush, bathroom

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Noun

  It's not easy to describe a noun. In simple terms, nouns are " things " (and verbs are " actions ").   L...

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