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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 ... Read more...
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Posted in Speech, Teach English |
You perhaps may be a bit confused when I am going to tell you that there are six Parts of Speech in English grammar. You know actually there is the reference of eight Parts of Speech in English grammar, may be I am a little off my head. But it is actually so what I am telling you. There are six common Parts of Speech with their special characteristics. These six are Noun/Pronoun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction and finally Preposition/Interjection. Now let us have a glimpse of the features of these six.
Noun/Pronoun
We generally know that Noun is such a word that is used to give a name to a person or a thing. Watch this example minutely.
Brett saw a dog on the road.
In this sentence Brett is the name of a man. It is the dog that is the name of an animal. Road is the name of a place. Hence we can easily say that Brett, dog and road are nouns.
Again Noun is classified into five different kinds. They are -
1) Proper noun
2) Common Noun
3) Collective Noun
4) Material Noun
5) Abstract Noun
A Proper Noun denotes an individual in pa... Read more...
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Posted in Speech |
You perhaps know it for certain that an Adverb is that word that qualifies any part of speech save the noun and the pronoun. But in other grammar too you may find the definition elaborated in a different manner. There the definition goes thus- An Adverb is that particular word that is used to qualify a verb, an adverb and the adjective. But when we brood over the matter it seems that the second definition is not at all correct. For, it is Adverb that may qualify preposition and conjunction too.
Now we can discuss in details the Relative Adverb. It may seem a bit complicated when you are going to use it. Before brooding over the relative adverb you have to have a clear idea of the relative clause. The number of relative adverb is not much; hence the use is limited to some extent. Still you have to take care when you would go to apply them.
Again Relative Adverbs are in some respect same in form as the interrogative adverbs. But the basic difference that you may note is that like the interrogative adverbs they do not ask questions, rather join two sentences. So you have the sole right to define relative adverb in two way... Read more...
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Posted in Adverb |
You have the desire to learn English quite efficiently as you do not know the world language quite well. Then what would you do first? I suggest it is the best way to know everything about the English grammar where you can find the synchronized rules and find the right way that would offer you a perfect idea of the language. It is the grammar that teaches us how we play quite effectively with words.
It is not possible for a human being to learn the English grammar quite easily. There are many facets that are very hard to assimilate as there is no hard and fast rule or the stereo type. According to situations the rules change and sometimes there is no ripple in the lake of rules and regulations, as if, it is stagnant for ever. Still English grammar is never static; it always follows an evolving system without brooding over the matter to change the basics in general. Since time immemorial the basic elements of grammar remains the same.
You have to know first the Parts of Speech, the categories that hint at how the groups of words are used. There are 8 parts of speech having their own definitions. These 8 parts of speec... Read more...
Tags: conjunction, english grammar, parts of speech, preposition, sentence, sentences, verb, world language
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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...
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If you want to write English quite perfectly, you have to know some usages that are mandatory to be learnt and if misused can make your writing nothing ‘but’ a mess. One of the words that often causes headache to the ESL writers is ‘But’. But may be used as a conjunction and a preposition and be easily placed before a sentence or in the middle of a sentence.
Let’s try to look into the matter of the perfect use of But. But, as a conjunction, is generally used to join the ideas that are absolutely contrasting. Now look at the sentences where the ideas are reflected.
v The man is old but enjoys sound health
v My father is honest , but not clever
v The book is thin but packed with great ideas.
In all these sentences, the contrasting ideas are hinted at. For example, in the first sentence the man is old but he enjoys sound health that is not expected from an old man. Actually the contrasting idea is that an old man must not enjoy strong health. He must be fragile.
Now let̵... Read more...
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