About last class

Let's have a look at some words and phrases that we looked at in class:

The word 'after'can be a preposition, and it's used as follows:  After + NP (sintagma nominal = noun or pronoun)

e.g. after the meal/ the rain/the summer/that...

It can also be an adverb, with the same meaning as 'afterwards', and in that case, nothing follows:

e.g.  She came back a few days after

And, finally, it can be a conjunction and i's followed by a sentence (Subject + Verb, etc.):

e.g.  She came back a few days after I left


Finally, some words and ideas we discussed explained in wikipedia:

sympathy (noun), to sympathise (verb), sympathetic (adj.)

Compassion (noun), compassionate (adj.)


Remember that the latter has a positive connotation in English