2. You can use „the‟ with the
nationality adjectives ending in ...
• -sh
“the English are famous for drinking tea”
• -ch
“the Dutch make fabulous cheeses”
• -ss
“the Swiss were neutral in the 2nd WW”
• -ese
“the Chinese invented paper”
4. NATIONALITY WORDS ENDING IN
„AN‟ AND A FEW OTHERS...
• ... Like „Belgian‟, „Argentinian‟ ...
• ... Or „Greek‟ and „Thai‟
• ... Are both nouns and adjectives.
5. USE PLURAL ‘S’ TO TALK ABOUT
THE PEOPLE FROM THOSE
COUNTRIES
6. SOME NATIONALITIES HAVE A SPECIAL NOUN
WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ADJECTIVE
• Polish adjective „That girl is Polish‟
Pole noun „many Poles were killed during the
2nd WW‟
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•
•
•
Scottish adjective Scot/Scotsman noun
British Briton/Brit
Spanish Spaniard
... Irishman, Swede, Turk, Finn, Lapp ...
7. USE ‘the’ + adjective or ‘the’ +
plural noun to talk about those
people
8. WATCH OUT!
• With any nationality you can also use the
adjective + „people‟
“The English people ...”
• To talk about one person you can’t use
a/an + adjective alone
An English an Englishman
9. Specific groups of people
• You can use “the” + some adjectives to
talk about some specific groups in society
(the rich, the poor, the young, the sick,
the elderly ...)
• These expressions are always plural
The poor are getting poorer and the rich
are getting richer
10. One, ones
• When we don‟t want to repeat a noun
after and adjective because it‟s already
clear, use one (singular) or ones (plural)
Which one would you like?
The red one, please
Two ice creams, please. Big ones
