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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 pla... Read more...

It is the best way to express the mastery of a language efficiently comes when you can grip the art of communicating in good English. Your mastery of the language is reflected through the style of your writing. How perfectly you are manifesting your thoughts. There is a slight difference between the mastery of oral English and written English. Oral English can be adopted in any way but it is very hard to master the art of writing English with a lucid flair.

Actually you watch regularly millions of words in some form. It may be e-mails, it may be messages sent from the cell phone, it may be greetings, it may be ‘Twittering’. Whatever it may be if you have no syntactical sense of using the language specially English you can not be regarded as the prolific writer. All that you must know in the very basic period is to learn the syntax of English grammar.

Actually the word ‘syntax’ has come from Greek that means perfect order. In English grammar you have to go through the chapter of syntax to know how there is a certain relation betw... Read more...

When it comes to learning of English language, grammar plays an important role. In grammar, one of the most important areas is the function of prepositional phrases. Prepositions are nothing but the set of words used closely with pronouns and nouns for showing their relationship with another part of the clause. Propositions introduce the object of the prepositional phrase. Its role is to explain a time-connected, plausible or spatial relationship between the object and other part of the propositional phrase. Some of the propositions in English are above, off, within, until, about, among, down, despite, etc…

Some of the examples of propositions are given below:

  1. The teacher has not come to the school since last week: In this sentence, the prepositional phrase, ‘since last week’ shows a time-connected relationship between has not come to the school and the teacher.
  2. The girl is sitting on the sofa: In this sentence, the propositional phrase ‘on the sofa’ shows a spatial relationship between the object chair and the subject the girl.
  3. The man has not lost weight desp... Read more...