A participle is a form of English verb. In English there are 2 participles: the present participle made by adding –ing to the verb, e.g. walk > walking the past participle made by adding –ed to the verb, e.g. walk > walked These two participles can be used as adjectives‏‎. […]

Numbers are classified in grammar into two main groups: Cardinal and Ordinal. Numbers serve as adjectives‏‎ in that they modify the noun which follows, e.g. There are young people here. There are many people here. There are six people here. Note that in a sentence such as: There are thirty […]

A Noun is one of the major parts of speech‏‎. A good, general, definition of a noun is that it is something which is used to name an object or thing. car, door, elephant… There are literally thousands upon thousands of nouns in English‏‎ and we regularly add new nouns […]

When we use nouns, we often use them with one or more other words to make a noun phrase. A noun phrase therefore is a group of words which contains a noun and one or more words that describe it further. Very often we put a determiner‏‎ in front of […]

Modifiers are pretty straightforward when you come to think of it. Essentially a modifier does just that: it modifies or changes or qualifies another word or phrase or clause. Suppose you have a noun: motorcycle You can then modify it: black motorcycle Harley Davidson motorcycle fast motorcycle So when we […]