Uses Of Apostrophes
We use apostrophes (’) for three main reasons. Missing letters It is used in writing a contraction to show the place of the omitted letters. can’t (= cannot) it’s (= it is) I’d (=...
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Adverb Particle
Adverb particles are words like up, off, in, down and out, used as part of a phrasal verb. Come in. Stand up. He walked away. Many words of this kind can be used as...
Adverb And Adverb Clauses
An adverb is a word like tomorrow, slowly, happily, once, soon, here and elsewhere. An adverb usually modifies a verb or a verb phrase and provides information about the manner, time, place or circumstances...
Adjectives
An adjective is a word used to describe people, things, events etc. It denotes a temporary or permanent quality associated with a noun. Examples are: honest, beautiful, old, small, big, happy etc. A typical...
Active Verbs
An active verb form is one like reads, wrote, broke, is writing or will write. The subject of an active verb is usually the person or thing that does the action, or is responsible...
Abstract Noun
An abstract noun denotes something which is not physical and cannot be touched, such as pleasure, happiness, beauty, kindness, honesty, anger and idea. Sometimes the term is extended to include nouns denoting events and...
Abbreviations
A brief way of writing a word or a phrase that could also be written out in full, using only the letters of the alphabet and possibly full stops. We usually write abbreviations without...
Autobiography Writing Tips
A biography is the account of the life of a person written by someone else. For instance, Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ is a biography. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life written...
Uses of The Apostrophe
We use apostrophes (‘) for three main reasons. Missing letters It is used in writing a contraction to show the place of the omitted letters. can’t (= cannot) it’s (= it is) I’d (=...
Vocabulary Differences Between American And British English
The same word may be used differently in British and American English. Real In informal American English, real is often used instead of really before adjectives and adverbs. That was real nice. She sings...