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Clause

A sentence in English language can be divided into various parts. Each part of a sentence serves its relative purpose and has some specific characteristics. While all of this seems simple, there is still a lot of confusion that arise between differen...

Preposition

Prepositions are one very important component of English language and English grammar. Do you know what a preposition is? You must have heard about it and be familiar with the term but somewhat vague on the meaning as it was back when you were in mid...

Participle

We read about the term participle somewhere around in grade 2 or 3 when our English teacher was telling us something about the tenses. Participle is a common term in English grammar and one should know and understand what it means to have good comman...

Grammatical Person

Person is a very common word of English language and anyone with basic English understanding knows and understands what this means. But there are only a handful of people that know what a grammatical person is and how it is so different than the othe...

On, In, At the time

In time When you do something in the last moment, you are just in time. That means you weren’t late for it, and saved yourself from some disaster (bad situation). ·         I couldn’t submit my applicatio...

Grammatical Number

You might think that number is only related to your math class and has nothing to do with English and language. You cannot be more wrong. Number is not just a numerical term used in mathematics and accounting. There is a number in English grammar too...

Dative Case

The grammatical cases in English language are very important to know if you want to excel in English writing and speaking. There are various types of grammatical cases in English language which you must familiarize yourself with. You can find my arti...

Accusative Case

The grammatical case in English language is the mode of the sentence of the parts of a sentence which help us determine what part it is playing in that particular sentence. The grammatical case is divided into various sub cases which I have discussed...

Nominative Case

There are tens of meanings of the word case in English language. When talking solely about grammar, the word case still has two or three different variants which exist singularly and contribute their fair share in the grammatical meaning of a sentenc...

Genitive Case

The English grammar is full of terms and words that we are rarely familiar about but still use them in our everyday language and speaking. Talking about grammatical cases is giving meaning to such a thing. We may use the correct grammatical cases in ...

Grammatical Object

We know what objects are? Don’t we? Object itself is a common noun and refers to something that can be seen and touched. Even a beginner level learner of English language knows and understands the term object. But did you know there is another mean...

Objective Case

In English grammar, a noun or any part of speech exist in one case or another. A case is referred to as mode of the part of speech.Today we will discuss about the objective case.Objective CaseA noun or pronoun is said to be in objective case if it ex...

Phrasal verbs with back

1. Back up Back up someone – to give support to someone. Examples – ·         We had to back her up till her room as she was very tired. ·         If Tim hadn’...

5 Educational Websites for Foreign Students to Make Fast Progress in Studies

It’s possible to find a lot of helpful educational services that function online. They offer various learning options and kinds of help. If you find good educational websites for foreign students, you can solve your greatest troubles. Top 5 useful ...

Subjunctive Mood

The mood of a sentence is described as the mood of the sentence. The grammatical mood in English language is very different from the moods that you feel like angry, sad or happy etc.Today we will discuss about one specific mood of the sentence that i...

Indirect Object

A sentence in English language is made up of a subject, a verb and sometimes an object. We all are familiar with what a subject and a verb is, but what is the object. The subject of a sentence is the noun who does the action and the verb is the word ...

Infinitive Verb

Till now I have written and posted about various forms that a verb can take in sentences of English language. Today I came across another form or type of verb that exist in English language and so I am writing about it so if anyone of you is searchin...

Intensifier

There are many simple things that we use every day in our language and don’t even know that we are using them. It’s like we know their purpose and meaning but are unaware of what they are called. One such thing is an intensifier.You have been usi...

Grammatical Mood

English grammar is a diversified and varied branch of English language and one has to have complete command of it to understand and write well. You might or might not have come across the word mood or grammatical mood of a sentence. Know that this mo...

Interjections

Oh wow! You landed on this page! You must be looking for interjections.Among many other parts of speeches, interjection is also one of the commonly used English grammar term that we use in our everyday language. Though interjections are more commonly...

Indicative Mood

English language consists of various moods and forms. The grammatical moods in a language are very important to understand the tone and correct meaning of a sentence. One such mood is indicative mood.Today we will discuss about indicative mood of the...

While vs. Whilst

While as a conjunction and adverbWhen used as conjunction/adverb, both the words mean during or at the same time as. They can also mean whereas (in the context of comparison). In the above sentence, we can replace ‘whereas’ with while or whilst a...

Specially vs. Especially

Specially Specially is an adverb that is used to indicate something done for a specific or special purpose. ·         He specially went to the shop to get her favourite chocolates. ·    &...

Direct Object

The language English is considered one of the easiest languages that exist. But when it comes to learning it and trying to understand it in a better way we come to know about so many things that one didn’t knew existed. We all know English grammar ...

Dangling Modifier

A modifier literally means something or someone that modifies or adjusts something. But when it comes to English language and more specifically English grammar, a modifier is a word or phrase that describes or tells something more about one special w...