Phrasal Verbs And Idioms
Phrasal verb A complex verb consisting of a simple verb and an adverb particle. Examples are: make up, take off, turn on, do up, fill up, run over, take in and put away. The...
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First Person, Second Person And Third Person
The way in which, in grammar, we show the difference between the person speaking, the person spoken to and the people or things spoken about. English distinguishes three persons – first person, second person...
Present And Past Participle
Present participle The verb form ending in –ing. The present participle combines with the auxiliary be to form the progressive verb forms. She was crying. Alice was knitting. It can also occur in a...
Passive Voice
The sentence structure in which the logical object of a verb becomes its grammatical subject, while its logical subject is either reduced to a prepositional phrase introduced by by or removed from the sentence...
Participles
A participle is a word which is partly a verb and partly an adjective. English has two participles: the present participle and the past participle. Forms like running, singing, walking and working are called...
Participial Adjective And Participial Relative Clause
Participial adjective A word-form which is identical in form to the participle of a verb but which functions as an adjective. Barking dogs seldom bite. A rolling stone gathers no moss. I love the...
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...
Indicative, Imperative And Subjunctive Mood
The simplest use of a verb is to make a statement of fact or ask a question. I like classical music. Do you like classical music? A verb may also be used to express...