In handwritten documents and in some printed texts, they are used for the titles of books, pictures, plays, films, and TV programmes:
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
‘On the Waterfront’
Frequently, however, titles are shown in print by the use of italics.
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Punctuation marks used to separate a group of words from the rest of the text. They can be single:
‘and’
Or double:
“and”
They are used as follows:
Direct speech:
‘He’s very clever, you know’.
‘Very,’ said Mr Datchery without enthusiasm.
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A verb that does not have to be followed by an Object. For example:
Groan: The man on the terrace was groaning.
Laugh: We both laughed.
Some verbs can be either Transitive or intransitive. For example, write:
Why hadn’t Ken told him he was writing?
She was writing an essay.
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An adverb that is used to modify an adjective. Intensifiers show how much of a quality something has. For example:
A beautiful view.
A rather beautiful tropical garden.
Extremely beautiful drawings.
Intensifiers can also modify other adverbs. For example:
Easily
Fairly easily
Incredibly easily.
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Most nouns and verbs and many adjectives change their form according to how they are used in a sentence. This process is called inflection.
Nouns inflect to show the plural:
One car – several cars.
One child – several children.
Some adjectives inflect to make the comparative and superlative forms:
Tall – Taller – Tallest.
Verbs inflect to show number and person in the present tense:
I work – she works.
They also inflect to show the difference between past and present tenses:
I work – I worked.
I write – I wrote.
There are also inflections to form the present participle:
Write – writing.
And the past participle:
Write – written.
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