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.
A Lexical Chunk is a unit of language which is made up of two or more words. Here are a few examples of lexical chunks: Good morning. Nice to see you! What’s the time? Other lexical chunks can include phrasal verbs, idioms, collocations and so on. Lexical chunks are the […]
In English Grammar we talk about inversion when we change the normal order of the elements in a sentence. In most cases this means swapping the position of the subject and verb of the sentence. For example, this is a common sentence structure in English which follows the pattern: {subject} […]
There are several ways to show ownership or possession in English grammar. The way we use mainly depends on whether the owner is animate (i.e. a person or an animal) or a thing. But as always, there are exceptions to this general rule. Animate Owners Apostrophe To show possession we […]
We use Indirect Speech (sometimes called Reported Speech) to repeat and report what someone has said earlier. This is in comparison with Direct Speech which is what the person actually says. “Live long and prosper,” said Spock. This is direct speech; these are the actual words spoken. Contrast this with […]
An Independent Clause looks just like a short sentence and follows the usual English pattern for sentences: The door opened. We won! I love cats. But… while a sentence stands on its own, an independent clause sits inside another sentence. For example, those sentences above become independent clauses when we […]