English Grammar Lessons And Worksheets
A complex sentence contains a main clause and one or more dependent clauses. One way of transforming a simple sentence into a complex sentence is by expanding an adjective or adjective phrase into an adjective clause. As...
Using and and but Use and to join similar ideas; use but to join contrasting ideas. The police arrived first. The ambulance came later. The police arrived first and the ambulance came later. Their front door was open. Nobody was...
It is a pronoun used for lifeless things and animals. I have bought a table; it is made of teakwood. The dog is ill; it should be taken to the hospital. It is often used to refer to a young...
When the subject is a phrase that includes a gerund, it is used as a provisional subject to begin the sentence. Instead of saying ‘Your trying to deceive us is no good’, we generally say ‘It...
Some verbs form their past tense and past participle by a change in the main vowel of the present tense. These verbs are called irregular verbs or strong verbs. Some irregular verbs form the past participle with...
Some nouns change their spelling when they become plural. Child: children Foot: feet Goose: geese Louse: lice Man: men Mouse: mice Ox: oxen Tooth: teeth Woman: women Some nouns have the same form whether...
The normal order of words in a sentence is subject, verb and object. But sometimes certain adverbs are put first and then this order is inverted, and the verb comes before the subject. Study...
Into: a place inside We ran into the garden. Into: to change into; to become The frog changed into a handsome prince. He got himself into serious trouble. Out of The opposite of the preposition into is out of. She ran out of the room....
Interrogative pronouns are used for asking questions. Examples are: who, what, whose and which. Who are you? What are you doing there? Whose is this pen? Which is the road to the railway station? The interrogative pronoun who has different forms for different cases: who (subject...
When -ing forms are used like nouns, they are often called gerunds. Smoking is injurious to health. I like shooting. Trespassing is prohibited. Trading means buying or selling securities, goods and services. We got the job finished by working fourteen hours a day. To become a successful investor...
