An intensifier is a word, usually an adverb, that has little meaning in itself but provides force, intensity or emphasis to another word, again usually an adverb. The basic and most common intensifier in English is very. He’s good; he’s very good. They’re late; they’re very late. Other intensifiers include: […]
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Inflection refers to the way we change the form of a word to show different parts of grammar such as voice, person, number, gender, mood, tense or case. A simple example is when we change I to me depending on where it is used in a sentence. The person remains […]
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The Infinitive is the base form of the verb: be, have, walk… Often the infinitive is introduced by the particle, to: to be, to have, to walk… Note that when the infinitive is on its own it’s sometimes known as the Bare Infinitive; when it’s with to then it’s sometimes […]
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Indefinite Pronouns replace nouns or people or things that are not clearly specified. Some like it hot. Some who? Some what? Some people? Some animals? Some planets? Someone knocked at the door. We don’t know who it is. We just heard a knock and assume it is a person. Something […]
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We use the Indefinite Article – a or an – when we talk about: jobs – He is an artist and his wife is a plumber. beliefs – He is a Buddhist and his wife is an atheist. nationalities – He is an American and she is a Canadian. We […]
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