TESOL Guatemala City

Wow, what can I say? When I was a child, I remember that learning about the different parts of speech was difficult - but, the more I grew, the more that I realized that it just happened to come easy to me. I had always been under the impression that knowing the terminology of the different parts of speech was not imperative to being a good English teacher - but, after watching the video and reading the material, I now understand that the parts of speech are almost as important as the English language itself - if not as important. I reviewed a lot of things that reinforced what I knew about the parts of speech from when I was younger, reminding myself that, for instance, nouns are either the focal point of the subject or predicate parts of speech, and that they take the natural form of a person, place, or thing. Another example that reinforced what I had learned before was that verbs support the nouns and naturally refer to actionable words; furthermore, adverbs give verbs more depth - an example being \"The dog runs rapidly,\" where the verb is the word 'runs,' and the adverb is the word 'rapidly.' One thing which I had learned that I could not remember from when I was younger was that of infinitives and gerunds. I now know that infinitives are the base of verb forms and often precede verb forms by the word \"to.\" Reinforcing what I ought to have known about gerunds, I now also know that gerunds are used in the way as a noun (as a subject or predicate), but that they are in the form of -ing.