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.
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 […]
A semicolon sits half way between a period/full stop and a comma. It has little or nothing to do with a colon, however. It is used instead of a period/full stop when we want to avoid too strong a break between phrases and instead of a comma when we need […]