Reflexive Pronouns and Intensive Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns : Are special kinds of pronouns that refer to a certain suject within a sentence. These type of pronoun talk about a certain word provided that antecedent is placed Within the same sentence or clause. Usually, it ends with self (singular) or selves (plural) Use of Reflexive pronouns… Read More »
Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives : Possessive Pronouns takes the place of the noun while a Possessive Adjectives describes a noun. Possessive Pronouns usually goes after a noun while a Possessive Adjectives can always be found before a noun. Examples : Possesive Pronouns Possesive Asjectives These books are mine These are my books The house… Read More »
Personal pronouns : Used instead of a name of a person, place, object, or idea when it is clear what or who you are talking about. Pronuns save us a lot of repetition. Examples : Bob, Tubai and I decided that we would watch the flamingos from our terrace Bob stayed back as the watchman… Read More »
Articles The articles are words a, an and the. They define whether something is specific or unspecific. Examples { I saw a crow and an owl on the tree the owl looked very funny there was a bottle on the table the bottle was very beautiful my grandmother was a teacher Articles are of two… Read More »
Determiner The determiner is a word that determines the meaning of noun, it comes before a noun and gives information about it, It determine the meaning of a noun in terms of following things : Making the meaning of noun generic Making the meaning of noun specific Mndicating the direction and number of noun Showing… Read More »
Nouns : name a person place thing or idea There are countable nouns and uncountable nouns : Countable nouns These are nouns we can count These nouns have a singular and a plural form (we can make the plural form by adding s/es) Examples : apple (singular) à apples (plural) mango( singular) à magoes (plural)… Read More »
Singular and Plural Nouns Singular Noun Singular means one and talks about only one person, place, thing or animal. For a singular noun we don’t need to add any letters at the end. For Examples : girl, flower, lunch, bus, house, glass. Plural Nouns Plural means many and talks about more than one person, place,… Read More »
What is A Noun ? A noun is a word that functions as the name of something ( nouns are the most common class of word in English) There are eight types of nouns 1. Common Nouns Common nouns are used to name people places or things in general. It refers to the class or… Read More »
Parts of speech are types of words or categories of words in English. A sentence is formed by a few words. A word is the most basic part that has its own meaning, function, and usefulness in a sentence. There are eight of PARTS OF SPEECH ; Verb Noun Adjective Adverb Pronoun Interjection Conjunction Preposition… Read More »
There are 2 ways of writing dates in English, the first is to write the day before the month (British) or write the month before the day (American). In writing english dates, number writing is in the form of a nested number (st, nd, rd, or th). British English and American English have many differences… Read More »