In English grammar, a determiner is a word that comes before a noun to clarify its meaning by specifying which one, how many, whose, or how much.
Definition
According to A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk and his co-authors: A determiner is a class of words that limit or determine the reference of a noun phrase.
A modifier is a word or phrase or clause which modifies other words in a sentence. It is either an adjective or an adverb. The adjectives modify the nouns, and the adverbs modify the verbs or the adjectives or the other adverbs.
In our writing, we use punctuation marks to indicate the pauses and changes in expression. Punctuation marks were invented to clarify the expression in language. It is a set of symbols used in writing to help explain meaning and make sentences easier to read. It helps us organize thoughts, show pauses, indicate emotions, and structure sentences correctly.
Without sentences, we would have a great deal of difficulty in communicating with each other. A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense by itself. In its simplest form, a sentence may consist of just a noun and a verb, or even of a single word.
A sentence has two main parts, called the subject and the predicate.
Definition:
Grammatically Tense refers to the conjugation or form of a verb to reflect the time of the action or state -that is, when the action occurred.
Verbs in their basic form
inherently describe the time.
There are three main types of tenses in English:
Linking words are words or
phrases used to connect ideas, sentences, or paragraphs smoothly in
writing or speech. They help the readers
to follow the logic of thoughts and understand how ideas relate to each other.
Various types of linking verbs depend on the use or place in sentences. These are:
Definition:
In English, the word ‘pro’ means before but in Latin, it means instead of. So, Pronouns are words that we use in place of nouns. Example: I, we, you, she, he, they, her, our, etc., the noun being replaced is known as the antecedent of the pronoun.
Categories of Pronouns:
There is a wide range of
different categories of pronouns that we use in everyday speech and writing.
Each kind of pronoun has a unique function in a sentence; many pronouns belong
to multiple categories and can serve different purposes depending on the
context.
Normally, pronouns are classified into the following categories:
1. Personal Pronoun 2. Demonstrative Pronoun 3. Relative
Pronoun,4. Interrogative Pronoun 5. Distributive Pronoun 6. Indefinite Pronoun
7. Reflexive Pronoun and 8. Reciprocal Pronoun.
1. Personal Pronoun: Personal pronouns have different
forms depending on the person, number, and gender. Based on the person, it can
be classified into three categories, and they are:
·
Subjective
pronoun: I, we, you, they, he, she, it, etc.
·
Objective pronoun: the teacher loves me/
us/ you/them/him, etc.
·
Possessive pronoun: It is a pronoun that
shows who or what owns something. For example: the fishing rod is mine/
yours/his/her/ others/ ours/ theirs.
2. Demonstrative Pronoun:
To identify a specific person or thing, we use demonstrative
pronouns. It has different forms
depending on number of person or things. for example: this, that, these, those,
such etc.
3. Relative Pronoun:
We use relative pronouns to relate or connect relative clauses (als
A Collective noun is given to a collection or group of singular persons, place, animal, thing, or idea – e.g., mob, herd, bunch, gang, school, fleet, flock, etc.
Based on usage, collective nouns are classified into four types:
1. Class Collective Noun: clothing, furniture, luggage, brick, machinery, etc.
2. Distributive Collective Noun: people, folk, cattle, poultry, etc.
3. Generalising Collective Noun: Police, peasant, noble
4. Group Collective Noun: the jury, a fleet, a crowd, etc.
Number is a grammatical category that indicates whether a noun, pronoun, or verb is one or more than one. There are two types of numbers in grammar: singular and plural.
Singular Number:
When a noun refers to just one person, animal, place, thing, or quality, it is said to be singular in number. Examples include student, tiger, street, and apple.
Plural Number:
When a noun stands for two or more people, animals, places,
things, or qualities, it is said to be plural in number. For example-students,
tigers, streets, apples, etc.
A phrasal verb is a verb with one or more preposition added to it. The meaning of the verb changes completely with each additional preposition. A phrasal verb should be treated as a single unit of meaning, just like a separate verb.
Phrasal verbs are very common, we use it in spoken English
all the time.
Examples of
phrasal verb:
A
Ask for - Want
Add up- To calculate
