Discourse Marker
A word or a phrase which is linked weakly or not at all to an adjoining sentence and which serves to keep a conversation or a text flowing smoothly. Discourse markers show the connection...
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Determiners
Determiners are words like a, my, this, that, some, all, both, either, every, enough and several. They come at the beginning of noun phrases, but they are not adjectives. There are two main groups...
Positive, Comparative And Superlative
Degree is a grammatical category which expresses the degree to which some quality is present. English adjectives and adverbs commonly distinguish three degrees: the positive (the basic form), the comparative (expressing a higher degree...
Countable And Uncountable Nouns
Countable nouns are the names of separate objects, people, ideas etc., which can be counted. Examples are: apple, child, pen, book, trees, rivers etc. A countable noun can have a plural form. It can...
The Sports Vocabulary That You Need
Author: Robert Bell There are many different ways of improving your English that are great fun. Perhaps the best idea of all is to focus on what you most enjoy doing. If you love...
Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that join clauses into sentences. Conjunctions not only join clauses together; they also show how the meanings of the two clauses are related. Examples are: and, but, although, because, when, if...
Subject And Object Complement
A part of sentence that gives more information about the subject, or, in some other structures, about the object. Subject Complement Some clauses consist of a subject, the verb be, and an expression that...
Common Noun
A common noun is one which denotes a class of things, such as dog, pencil, boy, tree or book. It does not refer to a particular person or thing. Solomon was a wise king....
Comma | Punctuation Mark
Commas reflect pauses in speech. A listing comma is used to separate items in a series or list. In British English, the last two items in a list are not usually separated by a...
Colon | Punctuation Mark
The punctuation mark colon (:) is almost always used after a complete sentence. Its function is to indicate that what follows is an explanation or elaboration of what precedes. We decided not to go...
