A clause like a major sentence, is a meaningful group of words containing a subject and predicate. However, unlike sentences, not all clauses can stand alone and make sense. Types of Clauses Main clause: A clause that can stand alone and make sense is known as a main clause. Every major sentence must have at […]
Simple Present Tense Simple Present Tense is used to indicate (a) Facts A magnet attracts iron filings. (b) Repeated actions, customs and habits. He visits his family every weekend. We whitewash our house before Diwali. He goes to bed at eleven o’clock every night. (c) Abilities She plays tennis very well. (d) The future (i)
Verbs can be divided into the following three categories: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Transitive Verbs “A Verb is Transitive if the action does not stop with the agent, but passes from the agent to something else.” (J. C. Nesfield) In this sentence the sense is not complete with ‘I read’ only, until it is known
There are three articles in English: a, an, and the. They are called-Articles as they have significant role as parts of speech. They are also called Determiners, as they affect the meaning of noun. There are two types of Articles A and an are called Indefinite Articles because they are used when we do not
Conjunctions join two words or sentences. They have no other function except joining. Some Relative Adjectives, Relative Adverbs and Prepositions also do the function of joining, but they are not called conjunctions because besides joining they perform the functions of Adjectives, Adverbs and Prepositions also. Conjunctions only join and perform no other function. The following
Kinds of Adjectives There are ten kinds of Adjectives: 1. Proper Adjectives The Adjectives formed from Proper Nouns are called Proper Adjectives. As: Indian coast, French wine, American culture, English language, Shakespearean plays. 2. Descriptive or Qualitative Adjectives The Adjectives which describe the merits or demerits, shape and size, colour and form, good qualities or
A relative clause performs a similar function to an adjective in a sentence. It comes immediately after a noun in the main clause, which is called the antecedent, and gives more information about this noun. A relative clause is introduced by a relative pronoun, such as who, whose, which and that, and this comes immediately
A phrase usually refers to a group of words that work together to form a grammatical unit, although, in fact, a phrase may consist of just one word. A clause or sentence can usually be broken down into phrases. There are five kinds of phrase and each phrase takes its name from the word class