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...
Author: Manjusha Nambiar
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...
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....
When To Put The Auxiliary Verb Before The Subject?
We put an auxiliary verb before the subject of a clause in several different structures. This is called inversion. Consider the statement She is coming with us, in which the subject she precedes the...
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,...