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How to Teach the Parts Of Speech

Study English Grammar — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:09:18 +0000

The building blocks of constructing a correct sentence are parts of speech. Parts of speech are also used as the first step to teach students about good grammar. One has to understand the use of it and how they are put into the sentence to create a reading material in English which sounds right. It is always better to start with the basics and then move towards a complex sentence.

As a teacher you can use the following steps to let your students understand about parts of speech.

One must first begin by learning about the noun. Noun can be a person, a thing or even an idea. It can be names of people, places and things like dogs cats, Victoria or even London.

First as a teacher request your students to list noun (person name, a thing or an idea) that are coming on their mind.

After the list of nouns is done, instruct them to describe the nouns that are listed. Put those descriptive words in front of the sentences that are used. Let your students learn that the descriptive words are adjectives and an adjective is used to describe a noun.

Correct usage of Me, Myself and I

Study English Grammar — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:05:00 +0000

When it comes to the use of pronouns people are lot confused with the use of “me”, “myself” and “I”. Among all these again the use of “myself” perplexes a person the most. If you are a person who is not well aware with the differences between these words you are not alone in this group. Even people who ought to know a lot better than the ordinary men like the editors, the journalists or an English teacher most of the times are not very confident with the usage of these words. But even if you are not very sure about the meanings of these words or about their correct usage there is nothing much to worry because you can easily learn to use them correctly once you have a clear idea about what they exactly mean.

For example, the word “I” is used when the speaker is performing the action like you can say that “I ate chocolates”. Rather in simple words the pronoun “I” is a subject pronoun. Always remember that “I” is never used as an object in the sentence. Hence you cannot say that, “Uncle brought sweets for my brother and I”, instead you should say that “Uncle brought sweets for my brother and... Read more...

Using English Language Abroad without Embarrassment

Study English Grammar — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:12:31 +0000

In present day scenario English is the most often spoken language all over the world. Everything that is related to science, technology, etc… are related to English. English language has become the global language as the maximum population on this world use to speak English as their official language. But due to linguistic misunderstanding, embarrassment when using English with some non native English speaker is increasing nowadays. There is a variety of rules for making yourself understand when you are communicating with people from other cultures. Since English is the language that is most often used as the language in science and technology, it is better to have a good knowledge about English. If you are having a good knowledge about English, then it might help you and get an extra advantage over other people who does not know English. Sometimes native English speakers show their arrogance when they are not able to communicate properly with the other people who belongs to other culture. This way of arrogance shown by them can be one of the reasons for embarrassment.

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Types and part of Sentences in English

Study English Grammar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:54 +0000

English grammar lessons play an important part in the study of English. He / She will be able to able to write and talk fluently in English language when a person acquires knowledge in grammar only. In this article, we will learn about the parts and types of sentences, which form the main part in the Basic English grammar.

A complete English Sentence:

A sentence is a group of words starting with a capital letter and ending with punctuations like exclamatory mark (!), question mark (?), full stop (.), etc… A sentence will be completed only when it has a subject, an object and a verb. Subject is nothing but the person or thing performing an action and the object is involved in an action and the object generally comes after the verb. For instance ‘the girl took the scale’, here the girl is the subject and scale is the object and took is the verb. If you wish to say more about the object or the subject you can add an adjective to the sentence. In the example given above you can say ‘the young girl took the long scale’. Here the words young and long are adjectives. You can use adverb in the senten... Read more...