Grammar Lesson
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Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato, the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure of words and sentences. Why? Because skill in speaking and writing is the hallmark of all educated people.
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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.
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The capital letter is also called a big letter or uppercase letter, or sometimes just a capital.
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Nouns are divided into common nouns and proper nouns. Common nouns are words for people, animals, places, or things. These are words for people. They are common nouns.
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A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a common noun or a proper noun. There are different kinds of pronouns.
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An adjective is a describing word. It tells you more about a noun. An adjective usually appears before the noun it describes. Sometimes, though, the adjective appears after the noun, later in the sentence.
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Determiners are words such as this, those, my, their, which. They are special adjectives that are used before nouns.
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Most verbs are action words. They tell you what people, animals or things are doing.
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When you write a sentence you must make sure that the subject and the verb agree. If the subject is a singular noun, or the pronoun he, she or it, you need a singular verb.
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An adverb is a word that describes a verb. It tells you about an action, or the way something is done. A lot of adverbs end in -ly.
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A preposition is a word that connects one thing with another, showing how they are related. Some prepositions tell you about
position or place.
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A conjunction is a linking word such as and, or, but. Conjunctions are used to connect words or sentences.
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An interjection is a word that expresses a sudden, strong feeling such as surprise, pain, or pleasure.
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A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A sentence must have a subject and a verb, but it may or may not have an object.
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Punctuation marks are signs such as periods, commas and question marks. You use them in sentences to make the meaning clear.
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