The articles in this category are all about Sentences.
They are look at how sentences are made, the grammar of sentences, the building blocks of sentences and then what you can do with sentences and how to teach them in your TEFL class.
Look down even further and there are sub-categories on active & passive voice, reported speech and making questions.
Sentences English important words is order of in the. or better: The order of words in English sentences is important. We need to get word order right in English. The arrangement makes all the difference. Get it wrong and it just ends up a mess which no one understands. But […]
A Dependent Clause (aka Subordinate Clause) is a clause that doesn’t make sense fully on its own and always needs an independent clause to express a complete thought and make a complete sentence. These, for example, are dependent clauses: * whenever I see her * rather than take the bus […]
A Subordinate Clause (aka Dependent Clause) is a clause that doesn’t make sense fully on its own and always needs an independent clause to express a complete thought and make a complete sentence. These, for example, are subordinate clauses: * whenever I see her * rather than take the bus […]
Subject-Verb Agreement means that a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb. For example: My brother is in town. My brothers are in town. In the first example the subject is singular: my brother. This makes the verb singular: is. In the second […]
Here’s a simple statement: Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903. It follows the usual pattern of English statements of SVO: subject + verb + object Mary Anderson + invented + the windshield wiper. Often we ask questions about the object of the statement. In this case we’d ask: […]