nouns, verbs, adjectives…
... Pronouns substitute for nouns, noun phrases, or other pronouns, and can also refer to people (I, you), places (that), things ...
... Pronouns substitute for nouns, noun phrases, or other pronouns, and can also refer to people (I, you), places (that), things ...
Grammatical and Punctuation Feature
... Synonym: a word that means the same as another word An apostrophe shows: Either a place of omitted letters or contracted words, or possession – belonging to. Articles can be found in two forms. They differentiate the importance attributed to a noun. ‘The’ bag instead of ‘a’ bag. Definite: the Indefi ...
... Synonym: a word that means the same as another word An apostrophe shows: Either a place of omitted letters or contracted words, or possession – belonging to. Articles can be found in two forms. They differentiate the importance attributed to a noun. ‘The’ bag instead of ‘a’ bag. Definite: the Indefi ...
Grammar and Punctuation Revision
... Synonym: a word that means the same as another word An apostrophe shows: Either a place of omitted letters or contracted words, or possession – belonging to. Articles can be found in two forms. They differentiate the importance attributed to a noun. ‘The’ bag instead of ‘a’ bag. Definite: the Indefi ...
... Synonym: a word that means the same as another word An apostrophe shows: Either a place of omitted letters or contracted words, or possession – belonging to. Articles can be found in two forms. They differentiate the importance attributed to a noun. ‘The’ bag instead of ‘a’ bag. Definite: the Indefi ...
nouns-review
... 3. Forms of the verb “to be”. These are linking verbs. am is are was were be being been 4. Know these facts: A clause must have a subject and a verb. A subject or verb will never be in a prepositional phrase. A direct or indirect object will never be in a prepositional phrase. An action verb takes a ...
... 3. Forms of the verb “to be”. These are linking verbs. am is are was were be being been 4. Know these facts: A clause must have a subject and a verb. A subject or verb will never be in a prepositional phrase. A direct or indirect object will never be in a prepositional phrase. An action verb takes a ...
Subject-Verb Agreement
... Example: she and her friends are 2. When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by or or nor, use a singular verb. Example: the book or the pen is 3. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by or or nor, the verb should agree with the part o ...
... Example: she and her friends are 2. When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by or or nor, use a singular verb. Example: the book or the pen is 3. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by or or nor, the verb should agree with the part o ...
Parts of Speech Review - jaguar-language-arts
... Do all the sentences in this paragraph stay focused on the topic? I don’t like tests. Every time I take a test, I feel nervous. When I study for a test, I don’t know if I will be able to get a good grade. Often I worry about taking a test and can’t sleep. Sometimes I daydream or draw pictures in cl ...
... Do all the sentences in this paragraph stay focused on the topic? I don’t like tests. Every time I take a test, I feel nervous. When I study for a test, I don’t know if I will be able to get a good grade. Often I worry about taking a test and can’t sleep. Sometimes I daydream or draw pictures in cl ...
28HYD18_Layout 1 - Namasthe Telangana
... Either the cat or dog has been here. Some nouns which are plural in form, but singular in meaning, take a singular verb. Example The news is true When a plural noun denotes some specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, the verb is generally singular. Example 20 km is a long walk. We may us ...
... Either the cat or dog has been here. Some nouns which are plural in form, but singular in meaning, take a singular verb. Example The news is true When a plural noun denotes some specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, the verb is generally singular. Example 20 km is a long walk. We may us ...
THE PARTS OF SPEECH (BASIC OVERVIEW)
... PREPOSITION: a word that describes a spatial relationship between objects or actions and objects. i.e. in, through, around, for, from, toward, over, among CONJUNCTION: a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses together. COORDINATING CONJUCTION: a conjunction which keeps parts equal. i.e. for, and ...
... PREPOSITION: a word that describes a spatial relationship between objects or actions and objects. i.e. in, through, around, for, from, toward, over, among CONJUNCTION: a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses together. COORDINATING CONJUCTION: a conjunction which keeps parts equal. i.e. for, and ...
Grammar… - College of the Mainland
... Collective nouns as subjects • Collective nouns refer to groups and include words like audience, class, crowd, family, group, jury, team, etc. When members of a group work together or are considered a unit, use singular verbs and singular pronouns: The jury is back from deliberations and has reache ...
... Collective nouns as subjects • Collective nouns refer to groups and include words like audience, class, crowd, family, group, jury, team, etc. When members of a group work together or are considered a unit, use singular verbs and singular pronouns: The jury is back from deliberations and has reache ...
Year Groups - Information S.P.A.G. Booklet
... Active voice: many verbs can be active or passive, e.g. The cat scratched Anna (active voice), Anna was scratched by the cat (passive voice). In the active sentence, the subject (the cat) performs the action. In the passive sentence, the subject (Anna) is on the receiving end of the action. The two ...
... Active voice: many verbs can be active or passive, e.g. The cat scratched Anna (active voice), Anna was scratched by the cat (passive voice). In the active sentence, the subject (the cat) performs the action. In the passive sentence, the subject (Anna) is on the receiving end of the action. The two ...
Parts of Speech Overview
... Modify: To describe or to make more definite the meaning of the word. Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns by telling what kind, which one, how many, or how much ...
... Modify: To describe or to make more definite the meaning of the word. Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns by telling what kind, which one, how many, or how much ...
Subject – Verb Agreement
... Changing the subject At times you might want to use words like “along with” or “as well” to add something to a sentence’s subject. Unlike “and,” these phrases don’t pluralize the subject. “Paul, along with his friend Greg, is leaving to play racquetball.” “Jane, as well as seventeen other people, is ...
... Changing the subject At times you might want to use words like “along with” or “as well” to add something to a sentence’s subject. Unlike “and,” these phrases don’t pluralize the subject. “Paul, along with his friend Greg, is leaving to play racquetball.” “Jane, as well as seventeen other people, is ...
nouns, pronouns, and adjectives
... 3. As an appositive. An appositive is a word or phrase that identifies, explains, or gives information about the sentence. It is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas. An appositive is not needed to make the sentence complete. Ex: Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is a crowded city. 4. To show ...
... 3. As an appositive. An appositive is a word or phrase that identifies, explains, or gives information about the sentence. It is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas. An appositive is not needed to make the sentence complete. Ex: Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is a crowded city. 4. To show ...
What is a verb?
... A linking verb links its subject to a word in the predicate. The most common linking verbs are: Be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, ...
... A linking verb links its subject to a word in the predicate. The most common linking verbs are: Be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, ...
Inflection
In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is also called declension.An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change. For example, the Latin verb ducam, meaning ""I will lead"", includes the suffix -am, expressing person (first), number (singular), and tense (future). The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause ""I will lead"", the word lead is not inflected for any of person, number, or tense; it is simply the bare form of a verb.The inflected form of a word often contains both a free morpheme (a unit of meaning which can stand by itself as a word), and a bound morpheme (a unit of meaning which cannot stand alone as a word). For example, the English word cars is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express the plural; the content morpheme car is unbound because it could stand alone as a word, while the suffix -s is bound because it cannot stand alone as a word. These two morphemes together form the inflected word cars.Words that are never subject to inflection are said to be invariant; for example, the English verb must is an invariant item: it never takes a suffix or changes form to signify a different grammatical category. Its categories can be determined only from its context.Requiring the inflections of more than one word in a sentence to be compatible according to the rules of the language is known as concord or agreement. For example, in ""the choir sings"", ""choir"" is a singular noun, so ""sing"" is constrained in the present tense to use the third person singular suffix ""s"".Languages that have some degree of inflection are synthetic languages. These can be highly inflected, such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, or weakly inflected, such as English. Languages that are so inflected that a sentence can consist of a single highly inflected word (such as many American Indian languages) are called polysynthetic languages. Languages in which each inflection conveys only a single grammatical category, such as Finnish, are known as agglutinative languages, while languages in which a single inflection can convey multiple grammatical roles (such as both nominative case and plural, as in Latin and German) are called fusional. Languages such as Mandarin Chinese that never use inflections are called analytic or isolating.