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In this unit I learned about the basics of English grammar. The lesson taught me how to break down sentences into the parts of speech. For nouns, I learned how to classify them into their main types including common, proper, compound, abstract and collective nouns. The lesson also showed me how adjectives are broken down into their comparative and superlative forms, and that successive adjectives follow a basic sequential rule (size, age, color, material, then the noun). I learned how to differentiate definite and indefinite articles and the rules that govern when we use them. For verbs, I studied the difference between transitive (followed by an object) and intransitive (not followed by an object) verbs. I also learned about classifying them by their forms (base form, past simple, past participle, and present participle) and studied the lists of regular and irregular verb forms. There are three auxiliary verbs (do, have and be) that don't carry meaning but they help form tenses through combining participles or infinitives of other verbs. For adverbs, I learned how to break them down into the five main types (manner, place, time, degree, frequency) and also about a game I can play where students pick an adverb and a situation and then act it out. I learned that gerunds are the -ing form of a verb used as a noun. In reviewing pronouns, I learned how to teach students about reflexive (myself, yourself) and relative (who, which, that) pronouns. In teaching prepositions in the past, I didn't classify them into time/date, movement and place/position so this lesson will help me teach prepositions more effectively in the future.