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Pronouns are used constantly and in nearly every conversation. To put it simply, pronouns are words that are used in place of nouns. They are a subset of nouns that we use to avoid repetition and making our speech sound robotic and lifeless. They add a sense of personalization to our sentences. For example, Kareena… Continue reading I, Me, Myself: Pronouns
Adjectives are words that help describe qualities or the state of being of nouns (and pronouns). Their main job is to qualify the properties of nouns or the object being discussed. Some examples are: crazy, helpful, good, bad, beautiful, stylish etc. They can also explain the quantity of a noun, for example, thousand, few, little,… Continue reading Describing the world: Adjectives
Interjections are a part of speech that has long been considered as the least important of the 8 in total. This is because interjections aren’t really very important or necessary for the formation of grammatically correct sentences. Yet to give interjections their due and to help understand how and where they can be useful, we… Continue reading Garnish your speech with Interjections!
Without a conjunction, life would be a series of short, simple and very frustrating sentences. I like cooking. I like eating. I don’t like washing dishes afterwards. Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together to form different kinds of sentences. It is very important what the different groupings of words are, so that… Continue reading The many functions of Conjunctions
Nouns are words that name something that is a person, place, thing, an idea or a concept. As a person: Mahatma Gandhi, my father, Sachin Tendulkar, a child As a place: Mt. Everest, New Delhi, dining room As a thing: ball, table, sofa, cloth As an idea or concept: freedom, honesty, usefulness, capitalism They can… Continue reading Lets get down with nouns!
Prepositions are those words that tell us the relationship or the relative positioning between a noun/pronoun and another noun, pronoun or adjective. The dog jumped on the chair. (Linking noun with verb) They took Ram to the hospital. (Linking noun with noun) I am jealous of you. (Linking adjective with noun) The examples above seem… Continue reading Learn Prepositions: Never go wrong again|Part of Speech
Adverbs. This part of speech might seem very complicated, but they are used as often as verbs. An adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An adverb can also modify an entire sentence, as in Quickly, he slowed down the train to avoid a collision. Sometimes, Adverbs are often misused… Continue reading Adverbs: easily, conveniently and quickly!
Crocodiles, snakes, and lizards are fascinating creatures to observe. With dinosaurs fully imbibed in the popular consciousness courtesy movies like Jurassic Park and King Kong, these reptiles are remnants of a past when huge monstrous lizards used to rule the earth. In the context of the English language, reptiles are mostly used in a negative… Continue reading 10 Phrases, Idioms and Terms Associated With Reptiles- Improve your English Speaking
Some of you might adieu this blog without bothering to walk it thoroughly, but some who don’t, are promised to land on the less traveled planet where English language and Some of the grammar rules can be twisted in informal talk and in creative writing. Well, I am not against ancient English grammar rules,… Continue reading 5 English Grammar Rules You Should be breaking in an Informal Context
Tenses are a concept that has made a lot of people very tense since they started learning English! (Please excuse the pun!) On a more serious note though, if we are able to understand these concepts and how they work instead of mugging up these rules and trying to memorize them, our problems are SOLVED!… Continue reading Easiest way to learn and use Tenses- English Grammar Lesson
