The articles in this category are all about Sentences.
They are look at how sentences are made, the grammar of sentences, the building blocks of sentences and then what you can do with sentences and how to teach them in your TEFL class.
Look down even further and there are sub-categories on active & passive voice, reported speech and making questions.
Declarative Sentences are sentences which convey information; in other words, they make a statement. They do not ask a question or give a command. Declarative sentences are perhaps the most common forms of sentences. Other forms are interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. My name is Bond. You are standing on […]
Although they look similar, dashes and hyphens are used very differently. In traditional typography, a hyphen is half the length of a dash although in handwriting and often on computer keyboards they are the same size. Hyphens are used in two ways: to split a word or to join words. […]
Sentence Connectors are words used to link sentences together. There are several types of connectors. Each one of them is used to express a different relationship between ideas, like: Addition I was in a hurry and I forgot to take my umbrella. John is our chauffeur, additionally he works as […]
A Conditional is a kind of sentence which uses a word such as if. It talks about situations which are not real and imagines what might happen. There are 3 main types of conditional sentences each used in a slightly different situation. First Conditional We use the First Conditional to […]
The Conditional Mood is the form of the verb used in conditional sentences to refer to a hypothetical situation or an uncertain event that is dependent on another set of circumstances. In other words, the conditional mood talks about something which might happen if something else does! When we talk […]
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