Parts of Speech (often abbreviated to PoS and sometimes known as Word Classes) are the different categories of words in English. They refer to the way in which those words are used grammatically. For example, if you look at the following sentences you can see that although the words in […]
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A Participle is a form of a verb. In English there are two participles: Present Participle Past Participle Usage We use the participles to help form different verb tenses. For example in this first example we use just the basic verb form known as the infinitive: I walk In these […]
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A participle is a form of English verb. In English there are 2 participles: the present participle made by adding –ing to the verb, e.g. walk > walking the past participle made by adding –ed to the verb, e.g. walk > walked These two participles can be used as adjectives. […]
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Numbers are classified in grammar into two main groups: Cardinal and Ordinal. Numbers serve as adjectives in that they modify the noun which follows, e.g. There are young people here. There are many people here. There are six people here. Note that in a sentence such as: There are thirty […]
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A Noun is one of the major parts of speech. A good, general, definition of a noun is that it is something which is used to name an object or thing. car, door, elephant… There are literally thousands upon thousands of nouns in English and we regularly add new nouns […]
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