VERBO TO BE THE APOSTROPHE’S

INDEFINITE ARTICLE A -AN

MAKING NOUNS PLURAL

ADVERS OF FREQUENCY

DESCRIBING THINGS AND PEOPLE

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TO HAVE

VOCABULARY-FRUIT

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE IMPERATIVES

GENERAL QUANTIFIERSA quantifier in a pattern means to repeat the preceding

item a certain number of times. We've already seen three quantifiers: *, +, and ?. But if none of those three suits your needs, just use a comma-separated pair of numbers inside curly braces ({}) to specify exactly how few and how many

repetitions are allowed. So the pattern /a{5,15}/ will match from five to fifteen repetitions of the letter a. If the a appears three times,

that's too few, so it won't match. If it appears five times, it's a match. If it appears ten times, that's still a match. If it

appears twenty times, just the first fifteen will match, since that's the upper limit.

If you omit the second number (but include the comma), there's no upper limit to the number of times the item will match. So, /(fred){3,}/ will match if there are three or more

instances of fred in a row (with no extra characters, like spaces, allowed between each fred and the next). There's no upper limit, so that would match eighty-eight instances

of fred, if you had a string with that many. If you omit the comma as well as the upper bound, the

number given is an exact count: /\w{8}/ will match exactly eight word characters (occuring as part of a larger string,

perhaps). In fact, the three quantifier characters that we saw earlier

are just common shortcuts. The star is the same as the quantifier {0,}, meaning zero or more. The plus is the same as {1,}, meaning one or more. And the question mark could

be written as {0,1}. In practice, it's unusual to need any curly-brace quantifiers, since the three shortcut characters

are nearly always the only ones needed.

PRESENT PROGRASSIVE

Degrees Positive Comparatives Superlatives   Grado Positivo ComparativoSuperlativ

o                 

One-syllable adjectives

old older the oldestAdjetivos de una

sílabavieja/ o más pequeña /o

el /la más pequeña /

o

cold colder the coldest frío más fríoel la más

fría

  new newer the newest     nueva/ o      young younger the youngest     joven      small smaller the smallest     pequeña/ o      high higher the highest     alta /o                                      

Adjectives in -y

dirty dirtier the dirtiestAdjetivos que terminan en -y

sucia/o más sucia/oella más sucia /o

  noisy noisier the noisiest     ruidosa/o      heavy heavier the heaviest     pesada/o                                             

Two or more syllable adjectives 

intelligent more intelligentthe most intelligent

Adjetivos de dos o más sílabas

inteligente más inteligenteel/la más

inteligente

expensive more expensivethe most expensive

    cara/o    

  boring more boring the most boring     aburrida/o                                                       

Irregular adjectives

good better the bestAdjetivos

irregularesbuena/o mejor

el /la mejor

  bad worse the worst     mala/o      far further the furthest     lejos