What are pronouns? A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun. A noun is a name. For example if we say “John cooked lunch.” John is a noun because it is the name of the person in the sentence. If we said “John cooked lunch and then John cleaned the kitchen” it
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What is a verb? A verb is an action. Verbs include words such as “go”, “do”, “eat”, “drink”. They tell us what actions we do. Now let us look at these two sentences to understand what a helping verb is and what a main verb is. ‘Do you…?’ “Do you…?”. Do you, what? The sentence
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What are relative clauses? What is a clause? A clause is a part of a sentence. For example if we say ‘John likes orange but Peter likes banana.’ ‘John likes orange’ is a clause, the first part of the sentence, and ‘Peter likes banana’ is a separate clause, but they are joined together to
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What are adjectives? Adjectives are words that describe something. Everything has a name and in English names of things are called ‘nouns’. For example: “The house is beautiful”. The name of the thing is ‘house’ and so ‘house’ is a noun’. The house is described as ‘beautiful’ and so ‘beautiful’ is an adjective. Other common
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To know what a past partciple is we need to know what verbs are. Past participles are a type of verb. What is Verb ? A verb is usually an action. So for example: ‘go’, ‘buy’, ‘eat’, ‘write’ all of these are verbs. Verbs can also be something which is not an action but a
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Here is a list of of under 100 adjectives that can be used positively to describe a person’s character or personality. Being able to describe a person is important but just to say he is ‘nice’ or ‘good’ is very generous and simple. To improve your English you need to be able to use more
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What are adverbs? Adverbs are words that tell us how, when, where something happens. A lot of adverbs end in ‘..-ly’ and tell us how an action has been done. ‘He drives slowly.’ ‘She speaks quickly‘. There are many adverbs just like ‘slowly’ and ‘quickly’ that describe a ‘verb’ and tell us how it is
What are pronouns? A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun. A noun is a name. For example if we say “John cooked lunch.” John is a noun because it is the name of the person in the sentence. If we said “John cooked lunch and then John cleaned the kitchen” it would
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What is a verb? A verb is usually an action. So for example: ‘go’, ‘buy’, ‘eat’, ‘write’ all of these are verbs. Verbs can also be something which is not an action but a state or a state of being, such as be (and its forms such as ‘am’, ‘are’, ‘is’ and ‘was’, ‘were’), ‘exist’
What are compound sentences? A compound sentence is a sentence with two clauses. A clause is a part of a sentence or a group of words which have a ‘subject’ and an action or ‘verb. The subject is the person/thing that does the action. So: “John works” is a clause with a ‘subject’ i.e.
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