The Gerund
The gerund developed from the verbal noun, which in course of time became verbalized preserving at the same time its nominal character. The gerund is formed by adding the suffix…
The gerund developed from the verbal noun, which in course of time became verbalized preserving at the same time its nominal character. The gerund is formed by adding the suffix…
English has three kinds of nonfinite verbs: Infinitives Gerund Participle INFINITIVE Infinitive is a grammatical term referring to certain verb forms existing in many languages. As with many linguistic concepts,…
Introduction The verb is the most complex grammatical class of words. It is the only part of speech in English that has a morphological system based on the six categories:…
Teaching aids are important because they create a visual and interactive experience for the students. As the students become more engaged, they are more likely to understand the topic being…
Adjectives Used for Face & Appearance Description Face, Mouth, Lips, and Nose To describe the shape of the face we can use the following adjectives: long, round, square, triangular, oval,…
Relative Adjectives Relative adjectives express such properties of a substance as are determined by the direct relation of the substance to some other substance. E.g.: wood — a wooden hut;…
INTRODUCTION The whole of the English vocabulary is subdivided into eleven parts of speech. Notional or fully-lexical parts of speech are: nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, numerals, modal words and…
Composite sentences are poly predicative syntactic constructions, formed by two or more predicative lines, each with a subject and a predicate of its own. Each predicative unit in a composite…
The conjunction is a part of speech which denotes connections between objects and phenomena. It connects parts of the sentence, clauses, and sentences . Sadie brought them in and went…
There are some kinds of repetition: lexical and syntactic. Lexical repetition is divided into: anaphora (the repetition of the same elements at the beginning of several sentences): Should auld acquaintance…