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.
We use possessive adjectives with nouns to show possession or ownership. Like most adjectives they come before the noun which they describe: {possessive adjective} + {noun} your + car his + mother its + food There are seven possessive adjectives in English: my (something belongs to me – I own […]
A Phrase is a group of two or more words which work grammatically the same as a single word. As such a phrase can function as a verb, a noun, an adverb, a preposition or an adjective. For example these are all phrases: the old man standing on the beach […]
A Period (AmE) or Full Stop (BrE) is a punctuation mark placed at the end of a sentence. The symbol itself comes from Aristophanes of Byzantium who invented the system of punctuation where the height of placement of a dot on the line determined its meaning. A dot at the […]
To make a verb passive, we use the verb be conjugated in the same tense used in the active voice and change the main verb into the past participle. These are the main patterns used: Simple Tenses {be} + {Past Participle} active Eric kisses Amanda. passive Amanda is kissed by […]
The most common sentence structure in English is SVO or {subject} + {verb} + {object} Lucy + baked + a cake. As you can see, it has just one object. However, sometimes a sentence will have two objects which are known as the direct object and the indirect object: {subject} […]