domingo, 27 de mayo de 2012

partitives video


examples

                                                                   PARTITIVES

 PartitivesPartitives are words like: a glass of water. a cup of tea
       


 A bag of: chips, flour, cookies.



A bunch of grapes.A bunch bananas.

 
A book of matchesA book of stamps.

 A stick of gum.A stick of butter.
 

 A container of butter…A container…

 A bar of soap.A bar of chocolate.

 
 A pack of gum, A pack of cigarretes


 A roll of paper. A roll of toiletpaper.

 A carton of: milk, cigarrets, eggs.


 A slice of bread.A slice of pizza.



 A piece of pie.A piece of chiken.



 A can of soda.A can of soup.



 A bowl of soup.The Rose bowl.


 A jar of jam.A jar of mayonnaise.



 A loaf of bread.Meat loaf.


 A package of weenies.A package of muffins.
 


 A bottle of: coke, of cats up, wine, oil.


 A bathtub.A tub of butter.
 
 A tube of: cream, steel, tooth paste.






Practice exercises


http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/cr-noncountfood.html

http://lingue.altervista.org/game_grammar_containers.htm


Partitives

"Partitive expressions collocate strongly with particular non-count nouns: 


loaf of bread
two slices of bread/cake/cheese/chicken breast
bar of chocolate/soap
bit of fun
piece of furniture
stroke of luck
spell of bad weather



 Partitive expressions commonly refer to the shape, size, movement or the amount of something:There's a whole stream of people queuing outside the post office.
He gave us a torrent of abuse.


 Some partitive expressions with -ful refer to containers or spaces which commonly hold the item referred to. These include bowlful of, cupful of, fistful of, handful of, mouthful of, spoonful of:He gave me a fistful of cash. I don't know how much it was all together.
I always add a spoonful of salt to the pasta water.

jueves, 24 de mayo de 2012

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