Posted by admin on Sep 6, 2010 in
English Editing The main uses of when are:
Question word:
When did you last see your father?
Relative word:
I cannot recall an occasion when he asked me for help before.
Subordinating conjunction introducing a noun clause:
I haven’t told them when I start.
Subordinating conjunction introducing an adverbial clause of time:
The off-season hotel had been empty when she arrived.
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Posted by admin on Sep 4, 2010 in
English Editing A word with two meanings:
In writing, the five letters a e I o u.
In speech, sounds made with the mouth open and the airway unobstructed (by contrast with consonants, where the flow of air is briefly obstructed in some way). The exact number of vowels depends on regional accent, but there are more than twenty English vowels.
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Posted by admin on Sep 3, 2010 in
English Editing The Present Participle form of the verb used as a noun. It is also called a ‘gerund’, for example:
Smoking is not permitted.
I don’t like eating a lot late at night.
Although the verbal noun is used as a noun, it also behaves like a verb. The second example can be analysed like this:
Subject Verb Phrase Object
I don’t like eating a lot late at night
Verb Object Adverbial
Because a verbal noun is partly a noun and partly a verb, it can raise questions when preceded by a noun or pronoun.
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Posted by admin on Sep 2, 2010 in
English Editing The verb component of a clause. It may consists of one word or several. If it is one word, then that word is a Main verb. If it is more than one word, then one is the Main verb and the others are Auxiliary verbs. In statements the verb phrase normally comes after the subject and before the object or complement.
SUBJECT VERB OBJECT COMPLEMENT
The music played.
It was their home.
It changed my life.
The verb phrase in a clause can be Finite or Non-finite and agrees with the subject in number and person.
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Posted by admin on Sep 1, 2010 in
English Editing In grammar this word is used in two separate but linked ways:
It describes a particular word class in the same way that ‘noun’, ‘preposition’, and ‘adjective’ do.
It describes a part of a clause in the same way that ‘subject’, ‘object’, and ‘complement’ do. In this sense it is sometimes called the verb phrase.
As a word class, verbs are used for three main purposes:
To express an action:
She fled upstairs to the bathroom.
To express a state:
She slept noiselessly.
To link the subject with its complement:
She was alone.
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