Topic 10
Articles, quantifiers and comparatives
a/an/the/nol artikl, some/any/much/many/few/little, sifat darajalari.
Artikllar
- a / an — sanaladigan birlikdagi, birinchi marta tilga olingan, «bittasi»: I saw a dog. an — unli tovush oldidan: an hour, a university;
- the — ma’lum, yagona yoki tilga olingan: The dog was black. the sun, the best, the Amazon;
- nol artikl — umumiy ma’noda ko‘plik va sanalmaydigan: Dogs are loyal. Water is vital.; ko‘p mamlakat va shahar nomlari: Uzbekistan, Tashkent (lekin the USA, the UK).
Miqdor so‘zlari
many / a few / few — sanaladigan; much / a little / little — sanalmaydigan. a few / a little — oz, lekin yetarli (ijobiy); few / little — juda oz, yetmaydi (salbiy).
some — darak gap va taklifda; any — inkor va so‘roqda.
Sifat darajalari
Bir bo‘g‘inli: -er / the -est (tall — taller — the tallest); ko‘p bo‘g‘inli: more / the most. Istisnolar: good — better — best, bad — worse — worst, far — further — furthest.
as … as — tenglik; the more…, the more… — mutanosiblik: The more you read, the better you write.
Ko‘p uchraydigan xato
an university (tovush «yu» — undosh) va more better (qo‘sh daraja).