Adjectives: Participles and Nominal Adjectives Participles What are Participles? Let us read the following sentences. 1. The revellers were feasting on the food. 2. Feasting on the food, the revellers sang songs. In the above sentences, the word feasting is used in two different ways. Let us look at more examples. 1. Fatima is singing […]
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What is an Adverb? Types of Adverbs An adverb is a word which tells us more about In the previous classes, you have been taught the following types of adverbs: These are also called simple adverbs. Let us look at a few examples of each type. Simple Adverbs Adverbs can also be used in question
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What are Articles? Articles Let us look at a few examples: In the above examples, we see that the articles are used immediately before a noun in the first case; before two adjectives and a noun in the second case; and before three adjectives and a noun in the third case. Therefore, we can say
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What is a Clause? Clauses A clause is a group of words containing a subject (S) and predicate (P). It can stand on its own expressing complete meaning. Example: Seema will come. The above sentence has a subject, i.e. ‘Seema’, and a predicate, i.e. ‘will come’. The two phrases when combined into one make complete
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What is Comparison? Degrees of Comparison The grammatical structure of comparison has three degrees: Let us understand how these degrees are used to compare adjectives and adverbs. The Positive Degree The positive degree is used to draw a comparison at a same level. The positive degree is formed by using the adjective or the adverb
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What is a Conjunction? Conjunctions Conjunctions are words used solely for connecting other words or phrases in a sentence. In the process, they often serve to compress the length of a sentence. They perform no other function what so ever. Examples: Complete the task before noon. Seema collected flowers and leaves from the garden. She
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Direct and Indirect Speech What is Direct and Indirect Speech? The words of a speaker can be reported in two ways: Direct speech involves quoting the exact words of the speaker. Indirect (Reported) speech is used to report what a person said. Rules for Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech Tenses Direct Speech Indirect Speech
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns What are Countable and Uncountable Nouns Some indefinite adjectives are specific to countable and uncountable nouns. Countable Uncountable Few Little Fewer Less/lesser Many Much Gender Nouns: Gender In grammar, gender refers to the sex of the noun. We use grammatical gender to refer to human beings, animals, plants, ideas and things.
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Subject and Predicate What is a Subject and a Predicate? Subject Predicate Tom was infamous for his bad temper. The old man lived all by himself in the big house. The enemy did not succeed in infiltrating our borders. SUBJECT In the first sentence, ‘Tom’ is the person about whom something is being said; therefore,
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Parts of Speech What are Parts of Speech? In English, words are categorised into different groups called parts of speech. There are eight parts of speech.
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