What’s an incomplete sentence? It’s the moment in the television show just before the last commercial. You know what I mean. The hero slowly edges the door open a few …
How do you choose the correct pronoun for a sentence with a linking verb? Think of a linking-verb sentence as reversible. That is, the pronoun you put after a linking …
In the Middle Ages, grammar meant the study of Latin, the language of choice for educated people. In fact, grammar was so closely associated with Latin that the word referred …
Here’s an old children’s rhyme about the eight parts of speech of English grammar. It gives you an idea of what grammar is about.
Read and remember it.
Every name is …
Abbreviations save you time, but they also present you with a couple of annoying
problems, namely whether to capitalize or lowercase and whether a period is needed.
The world of abbreviations, I …
The perfect tenses tack has, have, or had onto a verb. Each perfect tense — present
perfect, past perfect, and future perfect — also has a progressive form, which includes
an -ing …
TENSES
FUTURE FORMS
Introduction
There are a number of different ways of referring to the future in English. It
is important to remember that we are expressing more than simply the time
of the action …
”- ING” FORM
INTRODUCTION
The ”-ing” form of the verb may be a present participle or a gerund.
The form is identical, the difference is in the function, or the job the word
does …
RELATIVE CLAUSE
WHERE TO PUT THE PREPOSTITION IN A RELATIVE CLAUSE
There are often prepositions in relative clauses, and the relative pronoun is
the object of the preposition. This means that the preposition …