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Every sentence or clause has a subject and a predicate. The subject is a noun, pronoun, or group of words acting as a noun, and the words ... | added 7 years ago |
One of the distinctive features of the noun is its ability to own something, to possess something. We show this act of possession by adding a possessive ending, typically an “apostrophe ‑s” (Fred's report) to a ... | added 7 years ago |
The personal pronouns (and the relative or interrogative pronoun who) exhibit case. The case of a pronoun reveals how th... | added 7 years ago |
Adjectives and adverbs exhibit a positive state, which simply shows the attribute expressed by the adjective (hot) or adverb (quickly). If the adjective or adverb seeks to show that som... | added 7 years ago |
Nouns and pronouns are either singular or plural. Nouns typically form their plurals by adding ‑s, (boys), ‑es (torches), or ‑ies (cit... | added 7 years ago |
A phrase is a multiword group having no conjugated verb in it. We have various kinds of phrases, which perform all sorts of functions in the language. Basically, the phrases can serve as nouns, ... | added 7 years ago |
We have seven kinds of pronouns in the English language (personal pronouns, reflexive and intensive pronouns, relative pronouns, ... | added 7 years ago |
The concept of person applies to pronouns and reflects a universal truth: There are only three types of people on earth. We have the speaker (first person), the listener (second person), and the person being gossiped a... | added 7 years ago |
The perfect tenses are under attack by many misinformed, but otherwise well-educated, writers and speakers. The tense does express qualities of verbs that are otherwise incapable of expression and is therefore worth retaining.We have three pe... | added 7 years ago |
The past tense of a main verb shows what happened or what state of being existed earlier at a definite time. When you use the past tense, the activity or state of being is over, finished, done (I ... | added 7 years ago |
There are six progressive tenses. Some grammarians refer to the progressive tense as the progressive aspect of a verb. The progressive tense shows an “ongoingness” of the action denoted by the verb.Th... | added 7 years ago |
The perfect tenses are formed by using the auxiliary verb to have and adding the past participle of the main verb. Thus, the ... | added 7 years ago |
past-perfect progressive tense There are six progressive tenses. Some grammarians refer to the progressive tense as the progressive aspect of a verb. The progressive tense shows an “ongoingness” of the action denoted by the verb.Th... | added 7 years ago |
The past participle shows up in verb conjugation in two ways: (1) to form the perfect tenses with the auxiliary verb have (I ... | added 7 years ago |
Regular verbs typically form their past participles by adding ‑ed. Irregular verbs, however, form their past participles in some other way. For example,... | added 7 years ago |
An action verb is either transitive or intransitive. A transitive verb can hook directly to a noun or pronoun (the direct object). An intransitive verb cannot ... | added 7 years ago |
We have eight parts of speech in the English language: (1) nouns, (2) verbs, (3) adjectives, (4) adverbs, (5) pronouns, (6) ... | added 7 years ago |
Every main verb has two kinds of participles: a past participle and a present participle.The past participle shows up in verb conjugati... | added 7 years ago |
When you write a series of elements in a sentence, each element must (1) appear in the same grammatical form and (2) perform the same grammatical function. This is the rule of parallel construction. If any element fails to satisfy either criterion,... | added 7 years ago |
The personal pronouns (and the relative or interrogative pronoun who) exhibit case. The case of a pronoun reveals how the noun it replaces w... | added 7 years ago |
One of the major roles of the noun or pronoun is the object of the preposition. When a noun or pronoun combines with a preposition, it forms a prepositional phrase, which ... | added 7 years ago |
A complement is a word or group of words that completes the action or state of being expressed by the verb. A subject complement typically follows the verb to be or ... | added 7 years ago |
The grammatical word object refers to several of the main functions of nouns (and pronouns). A noun can serve as the direct object of a transi... | added 7 years ago |
The concept of number applies to nouns, verbs, and pronouns. Number distinguishes “oneness” and “more-than-oneness,” that is, it distinguishes the singular from th... | added 7 years ago |
In his great work, Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler referred to a “nouny abstract style.” I took that adjective nouny and turned it into the noun nouniness.The term nouniness describes the style of many w... | added 7 years ago |
