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ESTRUCTURA TEMTICA
1) ADJECTIVES
a. Comparatives
b. Superlatives
3) ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY
4) ARTICLES
a. Indefinite
b. Definite
5) EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY
6) FUTURE TIME
a. Will
b. Be going to
7) GERUNDS
8) GOING TO
9) IMPERATIVES
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1. ADJECTIVES
Whats an adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes or clarifies a noun. Adjectives describe nouns by
giving some information about an objects size, shape, age, color, origin or material.
Examples
This company has an incredible supply source.
The Supply management chain is strategically great
Aspect of adjectives
Many English adjectives end with these suffixes, look at the following chart:
-able/-ible adorable, invisible, responsible,
uncomfortable
-al educational, gradual, illegal, nocturnal, viral
-an American, Mexican, urban
-ar cellular, popular, spectacular, vulgar
-ent intelligent, potent, silent, efficient
-ful harmful, powerful, tasteful, thoughtful
-ic/-ical scientific, technical
-ine bovine, canine, equine, feminine, masculine
-ile agile
-ive informative, talkative
-less careless, endless, timeless
-ous cautious, dangerous, enormous
-some awesome, lonesome, wholesome
Many adjectives also end with -y, -ary and -ate, but lots of nouns and adverbs also end
with -y, lots of nouns also end with -ary, and lots of nouns and verbs also end with -ate,
so be careful with those.
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1.1 COMPARATIVES
Examples
This years inventory is bigger than last years
Our new dispatcher feels more secure about the job than yesterday.
There are certain rules we need to take into account when comparing in English:
One-syllable adjectives
When you have one-syllable adjectives, to create the comparative form we add ER to
the adjective:
Examples
This years inventory is bigger than last years inventory.
Manufacturing is slower than it is supposed to be.
Examples
The old machine is hotter than the new one
This years inventory is bigger than last years inventory.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: You need to take into account we use the word THAN is to
establish correct and more complete comparisons.
Examples
DO NOT USE
gooder
badder
Examples
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The end goal of our companys supply service is to become better than our
competitors.
Last year, the company provision was worse than this year.
As we see, good and bad are irregular one-syllable adjectives because they have their
own specific comparative forms which are better and worse.
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Examples
This business administration director seems to be happier than others.
The meeting room is messier than the rest of the rooms.
Examples
The staff is getting more boring than our previous staff.
The calculation of needs should be more careful than last term.
Example
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2. SUPERLATIVES
In this part, we will continue talking about adjectives and we will learn about
superlatives!!
2.1 SUPERLATIVES
Superlative adjectives are used to say what thing, person, or idea has the most of a
particular quality within a group or of its kind.
Example
In this company we have the greatest dispatch in the city.
We always worry about having the best stock inventory in the company.
Rules
There are certain rules you need to consider when using superlatives
One-syllable adjectives
With one-syllable adjectives, we simply add the definite article THE before the adjective
and we add the particle EST to the adjective.
Example
Our procurement is the quickest of all the market.
The supply manager is the brightest in the company.
Note: if the one-syllable adjective has the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. You add
THE before the adjective as mentioned above, and you double the last consonant and
add EST.
Examples
The supply manager is the thinnest in the company.
The flow of materials is the biggest since the company started.
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To make correct superlatives, we need to take into account the use of the definite article
THE before the adjective. If we dont use this definite article the sentence wont be
correct.
Adjective Superlative
Good The best
Bad The worst
Examples
As you can see, the adjective GOOD has its superlative form THE BEST; and the
adjective BAD has its superlative form THE WORST.
Examples
Acquisition is the easiest process to get new things that will improve our
company.
We were the luckiest among the group to get the contract management.
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Examples
Our offer-evaluation process is the most advanced in the market.
The customer waiting room is the most crowded of all the rooms here.
Adjectives with three or more syllables use THE MOST with the unchanged adjective.
Examples
We are the most responsible company at delivering on time.
This is the most important reception process we have ever had.
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3. ADVERBIAL PHRASES
Its a PHRASE composed by one or two words that modify a verb, expressing place,
time or frequency.
Examples
Our supplies are taking too much time to arrive!
There are many types of adverbial phrases, but we will work with three types: adverbial
phrases of time, place and frequency.
Examples
I'll do it in a minute.
After the meeting, the director and staff will leave the premises.
More examples of adverbial phrases of time: In an hour, Any time, Before next week,
After they go to bed, Never at midnight, After the sunset, Only two days ago
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More examples of adverbial phrases of place: At the corner, in the back, through the
looking glass, Over the table, under the desk, around the office.
Examples
Theyre trying to improve our requirements definition every day.
Every week, we decide who stays in or who leaves the business project.
IMPORTANT NOTE: WORD ORDER: The adverbial phrases of frequency and time
can be placed at the beginning or at the end of a sentence.
The adverbial phrases of place are commonly placed at the end of a sentence
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4. ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY
An adverb is ONE WORD that gives a description of an action. We use some adverbs
to describe how frequently we do an activity.
Adverb of
Frequency Example Sentence
Frequency
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Subject + to be + adverb
When we use an auxiliary verb (have, will, must, might, could, would, can, etc.), the
adverb is placed between the auxiliary and the main verb. This is also true for to be
We use hardly ever and never with positive, not negative verbs:
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