Search This Blog

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

English Grammar

 Parts of Speech

  • Noun: A person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., dog, house, love, happiness)
  • Pronoun: Replaces a noun (e.g., he, she, it, they)
  • Adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun (e.g., big, small, happy, sad)
  • Verb: Expresses an action or state of being (e.g., run, jump, think, be)
  • Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb (e.g., quickly, slowly, very, extremely)
  • Preposition: Shows the relationship between words (e.g., in, on, at, with)
  • Conjunction: Joins words, phrases, or clauses (e.g., and, but, or, because)
  • Interjection: Expresses strong emotion (e.g., Wow!, Oh!, Hey!)

Sentence Structure

  • Subject: The person or thing doing the action
  • Predicate: The part of the sentence that tells what the subject does
  • Clause: A group of words with a subject and a verb
  • Phrase: A group of words that functions as a single part of speech

Verb Tense

  • Present Tense: Expresses actions happening now (e.g., I eat an apple.)
  • Past Tense: Expresses actions that happened in the past (e.g., I ate an apple yesterday.)
  • Future Tense: Expresses actions that will happen in the future (e.g., I will eat an apple tomorrow.)
  • Present Perfect Tense: Expresses actions that started in the past and continue to the present or have recently finished (e.g., I have eaten an apple.)
  • Past Perfect Tense: Expresses actions that were completed before a specific time in the past (e.g., I had eaten an apple before I went to school.)
  • Future Perfect Tense: Expresses actions that will be completed by a specific time in the future (e.g., I will have eaten an apple by the time you arrive.)

Other Important Terms

  • Subject-Verb Agreement: The subject and verb must agree in number (singular or plural).
  • Active Voice: The subject performs the action.
  • Passive Voice: The subject receives the action.
  • Direct Object: Receives the action of the verb.
  • Indirect Object: Receives the direct object.
  • Sentence Fragment: An incomplete sentence.
  • Run-on Sentence: Two or more independent clauses joined incorrectly.
  • Comma Splice: Two independent clauses joined by a comma without a coordinating conjunction.








 YouTube Channel 


Success AnalytiX




No comments:

Post a Comment

Followers