Study English Grammar » help http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com Free English Grammar Tips & Blog Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Exercises in Subject-Verb Agreement http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/verbs/exercises-in-subject-verb-agreement.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/verbs/exercises-in-subject-verb-agreement.htm#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:52:00 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=325 The agreement of the verb with the subject happens to be one of the major ingredients in the understanding and learning of English grammar. It is nothing but the following of a few simple rules. The subject as well as verb of each clause should be in agreement with the number. However, despite the apparent simplicity of the rule, you will often come across people who get the subject and verb wrong in so many sentences. It is important to understand the basics of writing and reading English grammar.

If you are to write and speak the language properly, it is important to give the learner lots of options to practice the agreement of the verb with the subject. Make ensure that the activities that are given for practice are interactive and fun to learn. This will help them master the fundamentals and basics of the language.

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Make sure about a Newspaper Search: Offer the learner with a newspaper and make sure that they choose a story which is of interest to them. The kids’ section of the newspapers is of interest to the persons or learners and these hav... Read more...

]]> http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/verbs/exercises-in-subject-verb-agreement.htm/feed 0 Brooding over ‘Which’ and ‘That’ http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-basics/brooding-over-%e2%80%98which%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98that%e2%80%99.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-basics/brooding-over-%e2%80%98which%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98that%e2%80%99.htm#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:38:35 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=292 If you want to learn English perfectly well you have stumble in the very beginning for there are some words which you can not use after your choice. You have follow some basic rules of grammar to have an idea how o use these words correctly. All these are basic rules, still without bothering these mean to show lethargy to learn grammar in the true sense of the term. Now I would try to discuss with the two simple words ‘ which’ and ‘ that’. From the outward view they seem of less importance but when you are going to use them you have to be a bit cautioned.

You perhaps have an idea that ‘which’ and ‘ that’ are regarded as relative pronouns. Relative pronoun means the word that helps to relate it to a noun that proceeds in a particular sentence. Now let us elaborate. In the following sentence “The pen that I bought yesterday is stolen” In this particular sentence, the relative pronoun ‘that’ hints at the ‘noun’, the ‘pen’.

Now comes the question of restrictive clause’. What is it? Actually if we follow the first sentence “The pen t... Read more...

]]> http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-basics/brooding-over-%e2%80%98which%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98that%e2%80%99.htm/feed 0 Top ways to use popular movies for English learning http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/study-tips/top-ways-to-use-popular-movies-for-english-learning.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/study-tips/top-ways-to-use-popular-movies-for-english-learning.htm#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:36:17 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=183 English movies are the most common resource being used by many English learners. Movies either in selected clips, or entirely are the highly practical way of learning English. No English learner will complain about the usage of a video clip or a movie as a part of an English course. Let us see how to learn English with the help of popular movies:

  1. The first step is to select a film, which will be easy to understand. For instance, you can choose children films, where the level of English used will be easy to understand. Select a movie in such a way that you should be able to understand 80% and the remaining 20% can be guessed by you initially.
  2. The movie selected should have soundtrack and try to watch the movie with the help of subtitle. At this stage, both your eyes and ears should work equally. You should try to understand the main idea and the theme of the movie. If you do not understand any particular part of the movie, stop it and rewind it and again listen.
  3. The third step is to watch the movie again with subtitles, but here try to reduce the usage of eye... Read more...

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