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Grammar

Grammar
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ADJECTIVE
  • Describes / characterises the noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying or specifying.
  • An adjective adds meaning by telling how much, what kind, which one, or describing it in other ways.
Great   -   small   -   pretty   -   white   -   red
-     A nice house.
-     A pretty garden.
-     A red car.

verb
Expresses existence, action or occurrence.  ​Tells of something 'being done'.  Indicates tense - past, present, future.
Read   -    write    -    count    -    sing    -    jump    -    run    -    leap   -   ride    - drive
​-     He sang the song.
-     He will be singing that song.​

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ADVERB
Modifies a verb, adjective, whole sentence or another verb.  Tells more - like how much, when, where, why or how.
Slowly   -   fast   -   near   -   far   -   now   -   later   -   well   -   badly
​-     He drove slowly into the garage.
-     It is too far away.​

preposition
Prepositions are found before a Noun.
In   -   through   -   beside   -  during  -   notwithstanding  -   concerning   -   in spite of
-    Come through the front door.

Hint:  Do not end a sentence with a preposition.

INTERJECTION
An exclamatory word capable of standing alone.  ​Shows surprise!
 Oh   -   Oops    -    Cool!    -    Ah   -   Ahem  -    Shut up!   -   Hurray   -    Alas   -     Help    -   Never
  • Ah. Now I understand
  • Shut up! 
  • Yeah  - I know!
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article
Three little words ...
A - an ... for indefinite articles
The ....... for definite articles
  • The mouse is very sneaky.
  • I think it's a mouse!

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  • Home
  • GRAMMAR
    • ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS
    • ANTONYMS and SYNONYMS
    • CLAUSES
    • CONJUNCTIONS
    • GENDER
    • HOMOGRAPHS / HOMONYMS/HOMOPHONES
    • IDIOMS and METAPHORS
    • INTERJECTIONS and EXCLAMATIONS
    • NOUNS
    • PREPOSITIONS
    • SIMILES
    • SPLIT INFINITIVES
    • SUBJECT and OBJECT
    • VERBS
    • VERB TENSES
  • ODDITIES
    • AFFECT vs EFFECT
    • ALLITERATION, PARALLELISM and POLYPTOTON
    • AMONG vs AMONGST
    • CLICHES
    • CONTINOUSLY vs CONTINUALLY
    • DISINTERESTED vs UNINTERESTED
    • DOUBLE NEGATIVES
    • DUE TO vs OWING TO
    • EITHER .. OR, NEITHER .. NOR
    • FARTHER vs FURTHER
    • I.E vs E.G
    • IF ... WAS vs WERE
    • IMPLY OR INFER
    • MAY and MIGHT
    • NONE WAS vs NONE WERE
    • SHALL or WILL
    • THAT vs WHICH vs WHO
    • THIS, THAT, THESE and THOSE
  • CURIOUS
    • HANDY VERSES
    • WORD SOUNDS
    • SOUNDS OF OBJECTS
  • PUNCTUATION
    • APOSTROPHES and HYPHENS
    • BRACKETS - Round and Square
    • COLON and SEMI-COLON
    • COMMAS and FULL STOPS
    • EXCLAMATIONS and QUESTION MARKS
    • NUMERALS
  • SPELLING
    • DROP, SWAP and DOUBLE
    • FUN THINGS TO DO WITH WORDS
    • PREFIXES and SUFFIXES
    • 'I' BEFORE 'E' and ''Q'' followed by "U"
    • SILENT LETTERS
    • SINGULAR to PLURAL
  • REPORT WRITING - HINTS
    • GRAMMATICAL PITFALLS