NOUN
What Is Noun?
In short, anything you can put the word 'the' in front of is a noun or is used as a noun. For example, 'light' can be either a noun, as in daylight, or a verb, as in I light the candles.
Common And Proper Noun
The press has paid considerable attention to the pollution of our lakes and rivers.
Plural Noun
From the above examples you can see that there is no single rule for forming the plural of nouns; there are several. If the possessor is a PLURAL NOUN that does NOT end in s, write the plural first; then add an APOSTROPHE AND s.
PRONOUN
- General Information About Pronouns, Possessives
- Personal Pronoun
- Possessive Adjectives/Possessive Pronouns
- Reflexive Pronouns
- Demonstrative Adjectives And Pronouns
- Indefinite Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that can be used in place of a noun or a proper noun, as the word itself tells us: pro-noun. This can be contrasted with some other European languages, where the use of subject pronouns can be optional.
VERBS
- Verb Forms
- Finite And Non-Finite Verbs
- Action Verbs And State Verbs
- Linking Verbs
- Reflexive Verbs
Some auxiliary verbs can be used alone as main verbs: have, has, has, is, was, was, is, is. The most common position for the verb is directly after the subject or after the subject and its modifiers. Other linking verbs work in the same way as to be: they combine the subject of a sentence with an adjective that follows the verb.
Some of these linking verbs can also be combined with nouns and pronouns that follow the verb. Two linking verbs (to become and to stay) can be followed by adjectives, nouns, and in rare cases pronouns, and can be used in any tense and with auxiliary words. A verb cannot be used with a noun or pronominal object, except with a reflexive pronoun.
Other verbs that are not true reflexive verbs can be used with reflexive pronouns to replace a direct or indirect object noun or pronoun. In June, sagging Christmas decorations still hung in the windows of the abandoned house.
ADJECTIVES
Formation Of Adjectives
An adjective describes the person, thing, etc. that a noun refers to. We use adjectives to say what a person is or looks like, etc. For example, adjectives can give us information about. An adjective can also describe the idea(s) contained in a whole group of words, as in. Some words function only as adjectives (tall) Others function as adjectives or nouns (cold) Many adjectives related to verbs or nouns have a characteristic ending (or suffix) For example,.
59 able added to a verb like en\oy gives us the adjective enjoyable, ful added to a noun like true gives us the adjective trueful For further examples.
The Formation Of Compound Adjectives
60 - Ordinal numbers can be used in composition, e.g. a first-rate film, a used car, a third-floor flat, a nineteenth-century novel. Compounds can be formed from a variety of prefixes and suffixes, e.g. tax free, tax free, loose, fireproof, fireproof, waterproof, carproof, hermetically sealed, tight lipped. /// and combine weakly with some gone -advised -educated informed paid etc.
Types Of Adjectives And Their Uses
61 - we can imagine degrees in the mentioned quality, and then we can use it with words like much, also and enough - very good for good, less good not good enough, etc. The terms attributive and predicative refer to the position of a adjective in a phrase or sentence. We say that an adjective is predicative, or that it is used predicatively, when it comes directly after be seem, etc.
ADVERBS
- What Is Adverb?
- How To Identify An Adverb
- Adverb Of Manner
- Adverbs Of Place
- Adverbs Of Time
- Adverbs Of Frequency
- Focus Adverbs
These include adverbs of manner that have the same form as adjectives, e.g. fast; adverbs of place {there); of the time {then); of frequency {often); point of view adverbs {maybe) and conjunctions (however). Most adverbs of manner are formed by adding -ly to adjectives, e.g. mad/crazy, common/ordinary, sudden/sudden. Most adverbs of manner naturally refer to verbs of action (laugh loudly, perform poorly, drive carefully, etc.) A smaller number of adverbs can also refer to stative verbs (eg understand perfectly, know well) I hear very poorly.
Adverbs differ in meaning from corresponding adjectives Adverbs of manner: after the object or after the verb. The most usual placement of adverbs of manner is after the object or after the verb. One-word adverbs of manner can sometimes go between the subject and the verb (This rarely applies to adverbial phrases) If we want to emphasize the subject of the verb.
Some adverbs of indefinite time can be modified with only (only recently) or with much (very early recently). Some of them can also begin a sentence, like adverbs of time. This may be necessary to avoid ambiguity.
PREPOSITION
- What Is Preposition
- What Prepositions Express
- Frequently Used Prepositions
- Prepositional Phrases With Nouns And Pronouns
WHAT PREPOSITIONS EXPRESS Here are some of the prepositions; Here are some of the prepositions;. The preposition to can be used to express both an event in time and the time shown on a clock. The second part, which follows the preposition, is a noun or pronoun called the object of.
By combining the preposition on top with the object noun the cupboard, you form a prepositional phrase. In the table below, subject pronouns are listed on the left and object pronouns are listed on the right. 90 to use a pronoun as the object of a preposition, choose it from object pronouns in the table to the right.
To help you identify an object pronoun, try putting the preposition with before a pronoun to see if it makes sense. Then, in the spaces to the right, write the preposition and the object of the preposition.
CONJUNCTION
What Is Conunction
Joining Words And Phrases
Here are examples that illustrate how conjunctions join words—first, nouns with nouns and then adjectives with adjectives. Two nouns - in this case, names of people - are joined by a conjunction and, making it possible to form a sentence like Anna and Jake are friends. 105 Two nouns are joined by the conjunction or, indicating a choice in a question such as Maria or Anna may come.
A complete sentence could read that Maria wears her green or pink bikini almost every day in the summer. In addition to joining two words of the same kind, conjunctions can also be used to connect two parts of sentences. A complete sentence could read: The hula girl performed for Jake last week and Maria this week.
Two prepositional phrases joined by the conjunction or could form the question Is the lifesaver near the pool or in the locker room.
Joining Sentences
BUILDING SENTENCES
Kinds of Sentences
You have learned that a noun becomes the subject of a sentence when it is linked to a verb as the doer of that action. In a sentence, the subject and the verb need each other in order to make sense. You have also learned that a noun can be used as a subject complement when it is linked to the subject through a linking verb.
A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb that functions as part or the whole of a complete sentence. 122 An independent (main) sentence is a group of words with a subject and a verb that can stand alone and make sense. A dependent clause is a group of words with a subject and verb that depends on a main clause to give it meaning.
In the sentence above, the relative pronoun that relates the dependent clause to the subject of the sentence is snow. 123 In the sentence above, the relative pronoun which relates the dependent clause to the word one.
Simple Sentence
Jim, a star basketball player and excellent student, lives in Windsor, Canada, across from Detroit. example; My brother and I are completely different - The verb in a simple sentence can be compound. In the following sentences, the subject has one line below it; the verb (predicate) has two.52.
Compound Sentence
Complex Sentence
Change the following simple sentences into complex sentences using the subordinating conjunction in brackets.
FRAGMENT
What is Fragment
Warming Up
What is Run-Ons
Put an X in the space next to the sentences that are comma splices or run-ons. 165 There are two main types of run-on sentences: the comma splices and fused sentences. When you use one of these words to write an assignment, remember to pay attention to inflow.
Correcting Run-Ons
Insert the linking word (and, but, for, so) that logically connects the two thoughts in each sentence. He checked on the new baby every five minutes, he was afraid something might happen to him. We knew there had been a power outage; all the clocks in the building were forty-seven minutes slow.
Note that if you are not comfortable using it, you can and should use one of the first two methods of correcting the bend. My worst experience of the week was going home for lunch instead of eating at work. She called me to get the person's name and number for my daughter who was in the bathroom.
As soon as I sat down again, someone knocked on the door, it was a smartly dressed couple with bright eyes who wanted to talk to me about the higher power in life. As a final frustration, my daughter came downstairs and asked me to drive her to a friend's house before I got back to work.
Techniques for Spotting Problem Sentences
Writer Edgar Allan Poe's horror stories often involved premature burials, in The Fall of the House of Usher, a young woman emerges from her grave. Such stories contributed to phobias, people developed habits designed to confirm that someone had actually died. What time do you want to meet at the park, can we play early in the morning.
Caitlyn knew that Jared wanted to go to the game he loved football so much. In this lesson, we focused on sentences—kinds of sentences and how to form them, as well as those pesky sentence fragments and run-on sentences. Why not plan a visit to the American Museum of Natural History, it has a fantastic collection of gems.
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
What is Subject-Verb Agreement
Words Betweeb Subject and Verb
CAPITAL, NUMBER, AND ABBREVIATION
Main Uses of Capital Letters
Other uses of Capital Letters
Numbers
Abbreviation
PUNCTUATION
Apostrophe
Quotation
Comma
SPELLING & COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS
Spelling
Commonly Conpused Words
