Phrasal Verbs with Sentences Many English verbs require more than one word to express their meanings. These are called phrasal verbs. Compare the single-word verbs with the phrasal verbs in these sentences. She put her hat on the table. She put on her hat and her coat. The sunflower turned toward the light. I turned […]

Modal Auxiliaries in English Modal auxiliaries are a small group of auxiliary verbs that indicate ability, possibility, permission, or obligation. We might be able to fix the engine ourselves. You should talk to a dentist about your sore tooth. Can I park my car here? If I had enough money, I would travel around the

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or noun phrase in a sentence. In the following sentences the bold word is a pronoun: Types of Pronoun         There are several types of pronoun and they are categorized as follows. Personal Pronouns A personal pronoun is a pronoun that is used to

Sentence Connectors are a great way of improving your English. Why? Because we use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. When we begin learning a language, we speak in very basic sentences, a bit like children. Example: As we learn more words and more complex sentence structures, we are able to

An adjective is a word that describes or gives more information about nouns or pronouns. An adjective is said to qualify a noun or pronoun because it limits the word it describes in some way by making it more specific. Adjectives usually tell us something about the color, size, quantity, quality or classification of a

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

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

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

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

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