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 paragraph is a collection of one or more sentences. It is used to group ideas in a piece of writing or text. A paragraph, then, is part of the structure of a text: 1 or more words > 1 or more sentences > 1 or more paragraphs = text […]
The Oxford Comma (sometimes known as the Serial Comma or the Harvard Comma) causes a lot of debate and controversy in grammatical circles. On the one hand is British English where a list of items in a sentence are separated by commas unless there is a coordinating conjunction (usually and […]
In an English sentence usually the subject of a sentence does something to an object. The object is the thing or person which is affected by the subject and the verb. Patricia ate the cake. The subject of this sentence is Patricia. She is the ‘star actor’. The verb is […]
A typical English statement has this form: {subject} + {verb} + {object} Churchill + enjoyed + breakfast. We + considered + his answer. The object comes last. If we add a word or phrase to the object to add some more information or describe it further, then this is known […]
In general when we look at an English sentence to see who is doing what to whom (grammatically speaking), we can say that the subject does something to the object: {subject} + does something to + {object} Jesse Owens + won + 4 gold medals. I + believe + your […]