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Nominative And Objective Case

Nominative The case-form used to mark a grammatical subject. In English, only a few pronouns distinguish case. For example, the first person singular pronoun has nominative I, as opposed to the objective form me....

Ordinal And Cardinal Numerals

Ordinal numeral Any number term of the form first, second, third, twenty-fifth or five hundredth. The English ordinals are usually called as adjectives. Cardinal numeral A counting number. Examples are: one, two, three, four,...

Singular And Plural

In grammar, the term number refers to the way in which differences between singular and plural are shown grammatically. An English noun exhibits a two-way distinction of number: a singular form, denoting one of...

Main Clause

A main clause is a clause capable of making a complete sentence by itself. A sentence always contains at least one main clause, and a simple sentence consists only of a single main clause....

Intransitive Verbs

Intransitive is a label applied to a verb that does not take a direct object. Some English verbs are always intransitive and can never take an object. Examples are: sleep, come, go, die, fall,...

Infinitive

Infinitives are forms like (to) write and (to) read. Infinitives are generally used with the marker to. Note that this to is not a preposition; after the preposition to we use –ing forms. I...

Direct And Indirect Object

The term object refers to a noun or pronoun that comes after the verb, in an active clause. Jane wrote a story. He bought a car. Many verbs can be followed by two objects...

Articles

A, an and the are called the articles. A/an is called the indefinite article; the is called the definite article. We use the before a noun when our listener/reader knows (or can work out)...