Here’s a simple statement: Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903. It follows the usual pattern of English statements of SVO‏‎: subject + verb + object Mary Anderson + invented + the windshield wiper. Often we ask questions‏‎ about the object of the statement. In this case we’d ask: […]

A statement is a simple sentence‎ which tells us some information (as oppose to asking a question, for example). It is a record of a situation or state, in other words. The most basic statement is made up of a subject (what the sentence is about) and a predicate (what […]

SOV stands for: {subject} + {object} + {verb} * I + dinner + made. * We + car + buy. * an asterisk at the beginning of a sentence shows it’s ungrammatical In this sentence structure the subject comes first, the object second, and the verb third. English is not […]

Look at these simple questions: Can you handle the truth? Are you busy? To answer them your students will often give just a Short Answer: Are you rich? No, I’m not! Does he smoke? Yes, he does. Who killed the king? He did. Short Answers & TEFL Sometimes your students […]

A sentence is a group of words‏‎ beginning with a capital letter‏‎ and ending with a full stop/period, exclamation mark or question mark. It is the written equivalent of an utterance‎. My name is Conan. We won! Is July going to be hot here? Sentence Types There are a number […]