Posts Tagged ‘sentences’

Sentence patterns with adverb particles

January 5th, 2012 in Improve English

Some verbs are followed by adverb particles. In grammars these are often called phrasal verbs. Examples are: put on, take off, give away, bring up, call in etc.

Make Sensible Sentences

March 29th, 2010 in English for children

1. Some children saw we in park the playing.

2. River there a bridge is across the.

3. The railway road which to is the station?

Transformation of Sentences Part II

January 18th, 2010 in English Grammar, English Learning

Changing an exclamatory sentence into an assertive sentence and vice versa

Exclamatory: What a beautiful flower!
Assertive: It is a beautiful flower.

Exclamatory: What a great victory!
Assertive: It is a great victory.

Changing an Exclamatory Sentence into the Reported Speech

December 13th, 2009 in English Grammar, English Learning, ESL, Improve English

Exclamatory sentences express a sudden outburst of some emotions such as joy, sorrow, contempt, regret, surprise etc. Common explanatory phrases are given below:

Changing an Imperative Sentence into the Indirect Speech

December 11th, 2009 in English Grammar, English Learning, ESL, Improve English

Imperative sentences do not normally have an expressed subject. This is because the subject ‘you’ is usually understood. As a result of this, imperative sentences begin with a verb in the simple present tense.

The Subject

November 28th, 2009 in English Grammar, English Learning, ESL, Improve English

An English sentence must have at least one subject and one predicate. The subject denotes the person or thing about which something is said.
The subject is usually the first noun or noun phrase in a sentence and it represents the thing that the rest of the sentence is about. The subject may consist of one word or several words but it must still have a noun or pronoun it. The main word in the subject is called the subject-word.

Sentences, Clauses and Phrases – Part II

October 25th, 2009 in English Grammar, English Learning

Kinds of Sentences

Simple Sentence
A simple sentence consists of a single main clause.

She wrote a letter.
They visited us yesterday.
It is snowing.
We have been waiting for hours.
Good books build character.
Birds of a feather flock together.