Pronouns
The part of speech which includes words like it, you, they, he, somebody, anything and who. A pronoun is usually a single word, and it forms a complete noun phrase all by itself. Pronouns...
Category: Grammar
What Are Prepositions
A preposition is a word like on, in, off, about and over. It is normally followed by a noun or pronoun. There is a cat on the roof. He is fond of children. She...
Possessives
That form of a noun phrase which indicates that it represents a possessor. Possessives are normally made by adding –‘s to the noun. Examples are: my mother’s friends, my father’s house, children’s books and...
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,...