Grammar

Don’t mistake a word in an intervening phrase or clause for the subject of a sentence. The simple subject is never in a prepositional phrase. Make sure the verb agrees with the actual subject and...

When talking about agreement of subject and verb, the identifying word is ‘number’. Number refers to the form of a word that indicates whether it is singular or plural. A verb must agree with its...

Further to my article on Identifying the Subject and Verb, it is also imperative that there is agreement in the use of Subject and Verb for the sentence to make sense to a listener. Just like...

Perfect Tense is used in languages to express an event that has been completed at a time in the past. It is called perfect because it is understood in the sense to be “complete”. The word...

All verbs have four ‘principal parts’: a ‘base form’, a ‘present participle’, a ‘simple past form’, and a ‘past participle’. All the verb tenses are formed from these principal parts.

Sentences are often classified according to their purpose. There are four purposes that sentences may have: There are four purposes that sentences may have: to make a statement, to give an order...

Just like the part of speech ‘noun’ naming the main actor of a sentence, A noun clause is a subordinate clause that is used as a noun within the main clause of a sentence.

Once you have mastered the basic elements of English grammar it will be relatively easy to learn other aspects of English grammar as they flow on from each other.

Once you have mastered the meanings of the basic parts of speech, the remainder of English grammar is simply a flow–on from those rules. An ‘adjective clause’ is a subordinate clause that modifies...

A ‘subordinate clause’ has a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought, so it cannot stand alone as a sentence. A subordinate clause is dependent on the rest of the sentence...

A 'clause' is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate (verb). A clause can function as a sentence by itself or as part of a sentence.

In the area of grammar and linguistics of a language, there are basically two ways a language can be known. The first is ‘top down’, and this is when the person knows the language because he/she...

In a language there is occasion to identify words further, for instance, if you and talking about a large group people, and you want to single out one person, you can place an appositive in the...