Grammar Checkup #1 | Subject Pronouns | 'be' Verbs | Basic English Grammar Course

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This is a checkup for subjective pronouns and ‘be’ verbs.
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Let’s take a look at the board.
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The first sentence.
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“___, are bags.”
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Now, bags are things.
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So we can’t say “he” or “she” or, you know, any of those.
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We have to use “it” or “they”.
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Now, we have “are….
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bags”.
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With an ‘s’.
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So that means more than one.
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We have to use ‘they’.
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“They are bags.”
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Okay.
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The next sentence we have an animal.
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“____ is a dog.”
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Okay.
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But just one.
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Right? ’a’ dog.
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So this time we use ‘it’.
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“It is a dog.”
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Now let’s look at these two.
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“The girl is an artist.”
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We have ‘the girl’.
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What is the subjective pronoun for one girl?
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“She.”
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“She is an artist.”
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These two sentences have the same meaning.
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They’re the same.
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Okay, and on the bottom, we have a question.
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When we ask a question, we have to put the ‘be’ verb first.
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“Are ___ pandas?”
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“Are ___ pandas?”
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With an ‘s’.
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That means more than one.
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So, we say, “they”.
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“Are they pandas?”
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“Yes, ____ are.”
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Again plural.
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So we just use the same.
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“They.”
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“Yes, they are.”
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Okay, let’s move on to the next part.
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Okay, now we’re going to focus on negatives and questions.
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Okay, the first sentence says,
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“I’m a student”.
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Okay, “I am…I’m a student”.
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Okay.
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What if I’m a teacher?
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Okay, it’s not true.
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I need ‘not’.
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Right…
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Remember, ‘not’ goes after the ‘be’ verb.
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“I am…am not.”
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And then the noun. “…a student.”
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“I’m not a student.”
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Okay.
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“They are teachers.”
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Okay.
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And now we have some other people...
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and that’s not true.
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“They are not teachers.”
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Again, after the ‘be’ verb ‘are’ and before the noun ‘teachers’.
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“They are not teachers.”
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Okay.
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Now, I’m going to ask you a question.
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And you have to answer.
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“Are you a student?”
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“Are you a student?”
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Well, you’re taking my class, you’re learning English.
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So, “Yes, I am.”
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Okay, you should say, “Yes, I am.”
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But how about this one?
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“Are you a monkey?”
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“Are you a monkey?”
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Of course the answer is “No, I’m not”.
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“No, I’m not”.
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Okay, let’s move on to the last part.
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Now for this last part, we’re going to look at some sentences,
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but there’s something wrong in all of these sentences.
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So you have to find the mistakes.
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The first sentence says, “I’m student”.
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Okay, look, “student”.
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There’s no ‘s’.
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That means just one.
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Just one.
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So remember, if there’s just one, we have to put ‘a’.
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“I’m a student.”
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Let’s look at the next one.
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“They are student”.
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Okay.
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This one says, “They are”.
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This means there is more than one.
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More than one student.
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So, what do we have to do?
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We have to say “They are….
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students”.
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We have to put an ‘s’ to show there’s more than one student.
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“She aren’t a baby.”
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“She.”
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That’s one person.
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One girl or woman.
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“…a baby.”
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That’s one person.
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But we put “aren’t”.
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Now that’s wrong.
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We have to say... ‘isn’t’.
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“She isn’t a baby”.
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“You isn’t a cat”.
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Now, for the subjective pronoun ‘you’,
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we have to have the ‘be’ verb ‘are’.
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So not “You isn’t a cat”, but “You aren’t... a cat”.
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“You aren’t a cat.”
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Okay.
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“Are it a cat?”
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Okay. “…a cat.”
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That’s one animal.
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So, do we need ‘are’?
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No, we need the ‘be’ verb ‘is’.
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“Is it a cat?”
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“Is it a cat?”
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Okay, so that was the checkup for subjective pronouns and ‘be’ verbs.
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I hope you guys understood and I’ll see you in the next video.
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Bye.
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