Essentials of English Grammar
Common Grammatical Errors
Common Errors
Tenses
Salutation
Greetings
Homophones
Differentiate These
• Piece / Peace
• Compliment/Complement
• Loose/lose
• Yours/your’s
Parts of Speech
8 Types of Parts of Speech and Their Use
• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Verb
• Adverb
• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Interjection
Noun
The noun is the name of any person, place, or thing. The noun
"thing" includes all the things which have a name and can be seen,
tasted, heard, touched, or smelled.
5 types of nouns are :
• Proper Noun – Name of Particular person or place.
• Common Noun - The name of any generalized group or community
• Collective Noun - It describes a collection of people or things.
• Abstract Noun - It is the name of quality, action, or state.
• Countable and Uncountable Noun - It describes if the name of
objects or people is countable or not.
• Pronoun-replaces a noun
• Adjective-describes or stresses the quality of the noun person,
place, or a thing.
• Verb- Describes the action of the noun
• Adverbs- Describes the quality of the verb or add meaning or
adjective to the verb.
• Preposition- Establishes a relation between a noun or pronoun
concerning something else.
• Conjunction- Word is used to join sentences or phrases.
• Interjection- word that expresses an exclamation that is a
sudden reaction, feeling, or emotion of happiness
Prepositions
• A preposition is a word or group of words used
before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to
show direction, time, place, location, spatial
relationships, or to introduce an object
• Examples above, across, against, along,
among, around, at, before, behind, below,
beneath, beside, between, by, down, from, in,
into, near, of, off, on, to, toward, under, upon,
with and within.
Subject Verb Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement means that subjects
and verbs must always agree with each other.
The verb changes its form to indicate the
tense but it also changes its form to indicate
the number of subjects in a sentence
Articles
Articles are words that allude to or call
attention to the thing. There are just three
articles – the, a and an.
Punctuations
•Punctuation: Seven Types
•Comma- Let’s drink Higoro
Let’s drink, Higoro
•Exclamation Mark-used to convey strong emotions of feelings
•Full Stop
•Apostrophe-used when you want to give ownership of an object to the subject. Eg What
are you doing with Shiina’s car?
•Question Marks
•Quotation Marks-used to represent the words in the original form someone has said
them
Sentence Structure
The way a sentence is arranged, grammatically
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