A Relative Clause (or Adjectival Clause as it’s sometimes known) gives information about a noun and at the same time, works like an adjective. Take a look a this sentence: For the party we bought several bottles of very cheap spirits. The noun spirits has been modified by an adjective. […]

Quotation Marks or Inverted Commas (known more informally as Speech Marks) are used in writing to show what someone actually says. They separate actual speech from comment, in other words. John F. Kennedy said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present […]

Questions are used to get information we do not already have.© <a href=’http://www.flickr.com/96dpi/’ target=’_blank’>96dpi</a> There are a number of different ways of forming questions in English depending on the kind of information we want. Questions are basically the other side of the coin to statements‏‎ in that statements give us […]

Question tags are used at the end of sentences when we want to check something, when we want someone to do something or when we want to show surprise. They are separated from the main question by a comma: You’re English, aren’t you? You’ve got five minutes to spare, haven’t […]

A Question Mark or ? is a punctuation‏‎ mark used at the end of a sentence‏‎ to show that it is a question. It is, if you like, the written equivalent of a rising intonation‏‎ which, in most languages, shows we are asking for information of someone. When do we […]