English Grammar Lessons And Worksheets
Joining two sentences with a present participle Consider the examples given below. The thief cut through the padlock. He opened the wooden door. Cutting through the padlock, the thief opened the door. The pilot banked sharply. She managed to...
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...
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...
Most English verbs form their past and past participle by adding -ed to the infinitive. Examples are: talk, talked, talked,. Similarly, work, worked, worked. There are, however, some verbs that form their past simple...
Some nouns change their spelling when they become plural. Child: childrenFoot: feetGoose: geeseLouse: liceMan: menMouse: miceOx: oxenTooth: teethWoman: women Some nouns have the same form whether they are singular or plural. Deer: deerMoose: moosePortuguese:...
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 words like who, which, what and whose. We use them to make questions. Note that the same words can also be used as relative pronouns. As relative pronouns, they connect clauses...
When -ing forms are used like nouns, they are often called gerunds. Smoking is injurious to health. (Here the ing form is the subject of the verb is.) I like shooting. (Here the ing form is the object of the...