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Exercises in Subject-Verb Agreement

Study English Grammar — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:52:00 +0000

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.

Practice Interesting Exercises

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...

English Grammar Made Easy – Learn as You Interact

Study English Grammar — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:50:05 +0000

Irrespective of the language that you are trying to pick up, one thing to remember while you are in the learning process is that you should be interactive. Whether it is English, Spanish or French, speaking or writing the language will make sense when you follow the rues of the language. If you follow the rules of grammar, it will make you as a writer or speaker look professional. The best way to learn English is perhaps through worksheets and grammar exercises. This is the best way to pick the language up, something that reading English books or listening to CDs does not give you.

English is an intricate language and hence, its nuances may be a tad tough to get. The matter is perhaps true if you are an English native, but are not aware of the rules of the language. However, you need to understand the little details of the grammar and learn to apply the concrete written and spoken principles to each lesson that you learn. One of the best ways through which this can be done is through the interactive approach.

Communication is the Key

Practice makes Perfect: First of all, you sho... Read more...

Teaching an Adult Learner

Study English Grammar — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:32:43 +0000

It is very easy to teach a kid. For it is unaware of the complicacies of learning and just try to cram or follow what he listens or notices. It may be inattentive but he can be handled quite easily due to the softness of its mind and quick adaptability. It is like soft clay. You can mould it the manner you like. In a word it can be easily molded. It learns English through different manners. It is never an easy task but after all if the teacher has prefect zest for teaching he/she can do the uphill task.

Now when you target an adult to teach English you may have to follow a different method. You have to follow the method of preparation and repetition. The adults may fail again and again but you have to keep your calm. You may find some adults who though speak other language can pick up English quite efficiently. Others can not. They stumble while learning perfect English.

If it is your motto to feed the essential grammar to an adult learner you are living in the fool’s paradise. Actually grammar can never be a funny thing to an adult. You have to take other methods so that grammar, a bit by bit can be taught. Try ... Read more...

How to Use Nouns as the Subject of a Sentence

Study English Grammar — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:05:52 +0000

It is the prime intention of all to learn English, the World Language, well. It is his /her dream to master the language and to express it through the speech and writing. But before mastering the language it is better to know the grammar of it. For it is inevitable to learn English grammar to have a keen sense of the language. Without it the learner is nothing but a man groping in the dark from time indefinite.

Among the eight parts of speech the noun comes first as noun is the name of anything whether it is the person, a place, an idea or anything else. Hence in a word we can easily say that noun is nothing but a naming word. It is noun that plays the most vital role in a sentence. So without the use of a noun it is quite impossible to use a sentence or express any feeling.

Now it is the first and foremost duty of the leaner of the English grammar to pick out from a sentence the nouns and try to differentiate it with the other parts of speech. It has to be noted that there are five nouns.

Proper noun- It is that noun which denotes the name of anything under the... Read more...

English Grammar and Interactive Approach

Study English Grammar — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:50:23 +0000

English grammar seems to be easy to understand but it is not that particular thing to be easily assimilated. It has intricacies inherent in it. It is seen frequently that the native speakers of English language can not stress on learning English grammar as they have the idea that it is their inborn quality to assimilate the language and use it in many ways.

But the theory is not at all true. If you are a native speaker of the English grammar you have to master the grammar of the language just to use them in different situations and circumstances. If you try to learn the grammar of English language you may hone yourself perfectly and apply your worth in the application of both in writing and spoken style. There is enough scope to be a master of English grammar. All that need is the interactive approach that may help you to understand the grammar fully well.

If you go through some process you are never to be disappointed. If you actually want to be the master of yourself always try to follow some basic rules to grasp the grammar in an effective manner. You need to explain the things that you seem very important yourself ... Read more...

How to Use an Adjective before a Noun

Study English Grammar — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:58:25 +0000

We know that English grammar is the most flexible grammar in the world. There is no such grammar of any language that can elaborate the process of grammar in such an easy way. Hence when one has to learn the language of the world, he or she has to go through the English grammar and it is a matter of ease that it poses no problem to him or her. It is absolutely very easy to learn a language like English along with its grammar.

The first lesson that every learner of English language must have to know – the Parts of Speech. If it is grasped well, the English grammar is no hard task. Among the eight parts of speech, Adjective is one. It allows us to make a difference between the things that are general with the process of narrowing the focus to one particular thing. Hence when we go to describe noun, we have to encounter different kinds of adjectives.

It is not very hard to find out a correct noun. We know what a noun is. It is, in a word, the name of a person, a place, a thing or a place. If we are able to choose the exact noun, we can easily find out the exact adjective that is to be used. For example, if it is tol... Read more...