Wes's Handout Archive

I have the make-up materials posted here, with a tiny explanation of each.

I don't expect the rookies to be accountable for the vast majority of this, but this will give you some clue, in case I go off on a seemingly unintelligible tangent.

Mutations

This is a chart of the changes that occur to a noun, after the articles 'an' and 'na'.
This is a chart of the major prepositions, and the changes they make to nouns, with and without articles.

Review, Exercises and Word Lists

Here is a review sheet of some basic phrases.
Basic phrases for expressing how you feel.
A chart of reported speech structure; How you say, "He said that..".
Practice and tips for looking up words in a dictionary.
A list of the most general of body parts.
A rundown of number system(s).
A fill-in chart of the prepositional pronouns.
Using the "tá...ar" construction.
Exercises for the "tá...ar" and "is...le" constructions.
An exercise, in English, to acclimate to word order for Irish sentences.

Verbs in General

How to form the simple past tense of verbs + an exercise.
A small chart-formed rundown of the verb teigh/to go.
An exercise using the verbs teigh/go and tar/come.
How to recognize the two verb types.
A summary of the verb tense endings we've covered so far.
An exercise for those four verb tenses.

Verb Charts

Full charts for the conjugation of, so far, 4 of the 11 irregular verbs, and 3 of the regular ones.

Bí
Tar
Teigh
Déan
An example of a type one verb.
An example of a type two verb. [ceannaigh.pdf]
An example of a verb that begins with a vowel.

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