گرامر روزمره ۳: «population» در جمله

1. 0:00Hi Dr. Jill.
2. 0:06We should continue talking about the noun population.
3. 0:10It's such a useful term to talk about both people and animals.
4. 0:15That's a fine idea.
5. 0:16We can start by thinking about how we use population in sentences.
6. 0:22Population is a noun.
7. 0:24If you have followed our lessons, you can probably guess that determiners,
8. 0:29words that show if a noun is specific or general, are likely to come before population.
9. 0:36We can check an online database for more information.
10. 0:39Google's N-Gram viewer, for example, tells us that the word the is the most commonly used word before population.
11. 0:48Grammar books say that the is an article, and articles are a kind of determiner.
12. 0:54So you are very likely to hear or read something like this.
13. 0:59Experts said the population declined by 1%.
14. 1:03What might be the most commonly used words after the noun population?
15. 1:09Google's N-Gram viewer tells us that the short word of is the most common by far.
16. 1:14So, you are very likely to hear or read something like this.
17. 1:19The population of Japan is aging quickly.
18. 1:23What else can we say about population?
19. 1:25Two related nouns include overpopulation and underpopulation.
20. 1:32Overpopulation means too many people.
21. 1:35Underpopulation means too few people.
22. 1:38Some countries once had an overpopulation problem, but with lower birth rates, now the problem is underpopulation.
23. 1:48Both of these nouns are generally used in the non-count forms.
24. 1:53In other words, we don't generally make them plural.
25. 1:56And that's everyday grammar.

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