Parts of Speech (abbreviated to PoS and sometimes called Word Classes) are the different categories of English words which all work in the same grammatical way: nouns, verbs, prepositions and so on.
This section has articles on all the different parts of speech.
Prepositions of Time – we use these prepositions to talk about time, either with a specific start and finish or general periods of time. We use them to explain when something happened. There is no real logic to which prepositions we use when talking about time so they just have […]
Prepositions of Place are used to describe where something or someone is… Words like: in, on, at, by, behind, over… and so on. Most Common Prepositions of Place The 3 most commonly used prepositions of place are at, in and on. For ESL students prepositions of place (in fact, all […]
Generally speaking, a Preposition tells you where something is or when something happened: at, in, on, by… As you might guess, a Prepositional Phrase simply means a preposition and what it is talking about known as the object: {preposition} + {object} by + the light of the silvery moon in […]
A phrasal verb is a verb and preposition which together mean something different from the individual parts. For example: The little boy was racing along the corridor when he ran into his teacher. In this example the boy was running and he literally ran into his teacher and knocked him […]
Personal Pronouns are a subset of pronouns which stand in for people, places, things and ideas. To begin with, here is a full table of all personal pronouns in English: Singular / Plural – Subject – Object – Reflexive – Possessive singular – I – me – myself – mine […]