中国学生英语

Improve English Language Grammar and Parts-of-Speech for Chinese Speakers

This is the second course designed to be simple to learn English for Chinese students.

It includes articles that explain parts of speech in English we need to understand that go beyond the basics of nouns and verbs.

The design focuses on phrases. A pronoun does not replace a noun but a noun phrase. This could include articles, adjectives or prepositional phrases.

By the end of this course you will improve your English proficiency.

Here is a link to the first course “Learn English Language Grammar and Parts-of-Speech for Chinese Speakers“.

Lessons (pdf)

  1. Course Introduction
  2. Countable and Uncountable Nouns
  3. Collective Nouns
  4. Interviews Practice Lesson
  5. Noun Phrases I
  6. Noun Phrases 2
  7. Nature Idioms Speaking Practice
  8. Compound Nouns
  9. Prepositional Phrases
  10. Verb Phrases 1
  11. Verb Phrases 2

Worksheet Exercises (pdf)

Improve English Exercises

The sets of idioms in the speaking exercise are available next. If you wish to review these and other idioms like these then visit:

  1. nature idioms, or
  2. lists of idioms in categories, or
  3. idiom exercises.
  1. earth idioms
  2. plant and tree idioms
  3. moon and wind idioms
  4. water idioms
  5. weather idioms
  6. nature’s creature idioms
  • pronunciation drills
  • listening tasks
  • improving vocabulary

Introduction to Improving your English

This course assumes you understand the basics of parts of speech. If you wish to remind yourself of these area please revise these areas first.

Countable Nouns

We already understand the basics of nouns and areas such as proper nouns, common nouns, irregular nouns and plural nouns.

Now let’s look at some more advanced areas:

Here is the previous course page on learning nouns.

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Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are used to define a group of people, animals or objects

For detail, examples, exercises and worksheets then visit collective nouns

Compound Nouns

Compound nouns are formed by more than one word. For example break + fast = breakfast.

More examples and exercises see the compound noun webpage.

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Noun Phrases

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Visit our page on noun phrases

Nouns are used with other words that affect that noun called modifiers. These form noun phrases.

It is the noun phrase that gets represented by the pronoun rather than the noun by itself.

If you wish to revise on our previous lessons, here are the pages on nouns , articles (determiners), adjectives and prepositional phrases using prepositions.

Prepositional Phrases

Introduction to prepositional phrases includes

  1. Prepositional phrase overview
  2. What are prepositional phrases?
  3. Examples of prepositional phrases

Here is the previous page on prepositions.

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happy chinese students learning english

Phrasal Verbs

We have looked at noun phrases, prepositional phrase and will look at verb phrases next.

But in our vocabulary section we also have very short phrases like ‘give up’, ‘come on’ and ‘calm down’. These are called  ‘phrasal verbs‘.

Verb Phrases

Verb phrases include helping verbs that help the man verb that include modal verbs.

An overview is seen on the page on verb phrases and the details on helping verbs including modals verbs are seen on the helping verb page.

Here are the previous course pages on verbs and adverbs.

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Posessives

This will include details of possessive nouns, pronouns and adjectives.

Coming soon!

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