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It's all about English: June 2011
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It's all about English. Thursday, June 30, 2011. SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT. How to make verbs agree with their subjects? 1 What are verbs and subjects? Are what we called action words. Run, do, walk, buy, shop, sing. Are the person or thing who are doing the action of the verb. I walk; The horse runs; Krishna sings Korean songs; They watch Transformers. The subject of a sentence can be singular (one) or plural (many). The shirt is big. The shirts are big. 2 What is verb-subject agreement?
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It's all about English: Verbs
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It's all about English. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Are the action words in a statement. They tell what is happening - what a noun is doing or what is being done to it, or the state of being, becoming, thinking or feeling. A verb with a subject, which will be in a particular tense is a finite. Verb Without a subject it will be the infinitive. Form (for example, to think, to dream. The present participle, used as a noun: smoking. Is bad for you. Of the verb: The man speaks. A noun, the noun is the object.
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It's all about English: Adverbs and adjectives
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It's all about English. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Adjectives and adverbs are descriptive words, sometimes called modifiers. Because they restrict meaning. They add detail to statements. The difference between the two is that. Modify only nouns, pronouns. And verb forms used as nouns. Modify verbs, adjectives. An adjective may be a single word: blue, tall, funny, warm. As a single word, it may come before the noun - the. Or after the verb - the sky is. Adjectives may be positive ( tall. Less, more, very).
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It's all about English: Prepositions
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It's all about English. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Are words or groups of words, that introduce phrases; and these phrases modify some element in a sentence. What follows a preposition is normally a noun, pronoun, or noun clause. A word that follows a preposition is its object, and, in the case of pronouns especially, this affects the form of the word. Never He walked near she. He gave them to. Never He gave them to she and I. Or He gave them to her and I. He never saw them before.
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It's all about English: Phrases
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It's all about English. Wednesday, July 6, 2011. NP) is the main construction which can be the object, subject. Of a clause. It must contain a noun or noun-like word (such as a pronoun) which is the main element, and which is called the head. It may contain other elements, either before or after the head. These could include predeterminers, determiners, postdeterminers, premodifiers. The examples in the table below show how noun phrases can grow in length, while their structure remains fairly clear.
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It's all about English: Conjunction
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It's all about English. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Conjunctions are joining words. They connect words, phrases, or entire clauses. There are two general kinds of conjunctive words: coordinate. Join elements that are grammatically the same: two or more words, two equivalent phrases, or two equivalent clauses. The most common coordinate conjunctions are: and, but, or, for, nor, so, yet. Two equal words joined in a phrase). Two equal phrases in a relative clause). She ran to the corner, but. She will go, or.
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It's all about English: July 2011
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It's all about English. Wednesday, July 6, 2011. NP) is the main construction which can be the object, subject. Of a clause. It must contain a noun or noun-like word (such as a pronoun) which is the main element, and which is called the head. It may contain other elements, either before or after the head. These could include predeterminers, determiners, postdeterminers, premodifiers. The examples in the table below show how noun phrases can grow in length, while their structure remains fairly clear.
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It's all about English: November 2010
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It's all about English. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Parts of speech, or word categories, indicate what words usually do, or may be expected to do. Some of these categories - such as nouns and pronouns - make sense when we consider words in isolation. Others - such as conjunctions or prepositions - only make sense within a longer structure, a phrase, clause. Sentences (those you have found in speech or writing), which you are subjecting to analysis. Is a useful all-purpose name for any short sequence of wo...
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It's all about English: SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT
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It's all about English. Thursday, June 30, 2011. SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT. How to make verbs agree with their subjects? 1 What are verbs and subjects? Are what we called action words. Run, do, walk, buy, shop, sing. Are the person or thing who are doing the action of the verb. I walk; The horse runs; Krishna sings Korean songs; They watch Transformers. The subject of a sentence can be singular (one) or plural (many). The shirt is big. The shirts are big. 2 What is verb-subject agreement?
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It's all about English: Syntax
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It's all about English. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Parts of speech, or word categories, indicate what words usually do, or may be expected to do. Some of these categories - such as nouns and pronouns - make sense when we consider words in isolation. Others - such as conjunctions or prepositions - only make sense within a longer structure, a phrase, clause. Sentences (those you have found in speech or writing), which you are subjecting to analysis. Is a useful all-purpose name for any short sequence of wo...