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.
There are three types of Articles in English. Put simply, we use articles to let people know what kind of noun we’re talking about. Take the word, fly, for example. If I just use the word on its own I’m speaking very generally. These flies are annoying me. If I […]
Apposition is when you have 2 nouns (or noun phrases) next to each other and they both refer to the same thing. Each of them provides a bit of information about each other. For example, take these basic sentences: Clark Kent leaped into a phone booth. Clark Kent is an […]
When we talk about the future, most often we’ll use words like will or be going to: They will arrive tomorrow afternoon. I’m going to see the match. However, there is an alternative: shall. These days, people often talk about shall as though it’s on its way out and that […]
Adverbs of Time are those adverbs which tell us when something happened. For example: now, then, later, yesterday, today, tonight, tomorrow, etc. Position The position of a typical adverb of time within a sentence varies according to the relevance the speaker wants to give to the time element. relevance – […]
Adverbs of degree (sometimes also referred to as adverbs of quantity) describe to what degree, level or extent something is done. In other words, how much. almost nearly quite just too enough hardly scarcely completely very extremely Like all adverbs, we can use them to modify adverb, an adjective or […]