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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...

Second Person

English grammar is not very complicated it just needs a little bit of concentration and understanding. When it comes to English literature, it is yet simpler. Have you heard about the terms first person, second person and third person?Yes, they are g...

Imperative Mood

English is a pervasive language. There are different ways and means to convey what you are thinking to the other person in this language. The use of moods does not only describe but also helps identify the promptness of a command or a request.Today w...

Third Person

Many a times you would have heard someone say about a book or a story that it was written in third person. What does this term third person really means?The term third person refers to the nature or the context of the text that is written. It gives t...

Gerund

We might call ourselves English gurus or grammar gurus but there still are things we don’t know about. There are terms and things in English grammar that are very minute and discrete that one has to pay utmost attention to understand them thoroughl...

First Person

You would have heard a lot of times about the term first person. If you are an English literature student, you would know quite well what it means but if not, then it might be a mystery to you.The term first person gives off some meaning from the sim...

Object Complement

Complement is the word, phrase or clause that adds additional meaning to a word of a sentence. Just like the dictionary definition of the word complement i.e. to enhance something or give a better understanding if it, the complements of English gramm...

Conjunctions

There are many parts of a sentence that you would have learned in about in school. Some of them are common and easy to remember like nouns, verbs and adjectives etc. but there are some that we forget about. We still use them in our daily life speakin...

Subject Complement

You would have come across the word complement a thousand times while reading, listening or writing English language. Or you could also have read or heard its synonym compliment and are well aware of both the terms. If not, refer to our article, comp...

Conjunctive Adverb

The word conjunction means to connect or link two things together. You would have heard about conjunctions in grammar too. In grammar they do what they literally mean; connect words or sentences.In today’s article, we will not discuss simple conjun...

Contractions

How’s your foot now?Haven’t you heard the news?We shouldn’t stay here.We all have come across words like these where some of the letters in the word are omitted making the word shorter. These types of words are known as contractions in English ...

Collocations

You may or may not be a native English speaker but if you landed on this page it means that you are an ardent English learner. And as English learner it is very important to know what collocations are.You might notice that some words become jargons o...

Count Nouns

By now, we have come across multiple types of nouns and pronouns in our everyday language. You might also vaguely remember a lesson about count nouns from your High school English class. All these types of nouns are very common in our daily life and ...

Reflex vs. Reflect

Reflex The confusion comes from the origin of this word from the Latin word ‘reflectere’ meaning bend back, a noun denoting reflection. In British English, the word reflex is still (although rarely) used to denoted reflection (of light, thoughts,...

Insight vs. Incite vs. Invite

Incite (verb) To incite someone is to arouse them to do something unlawful or wrong. It can be to stir up an unnecessary controversy or to encourage violence by saying something that may not be true. Few synonyms of incite are – instigate, provoke,...

People vs. Peoples vs. Pupils

Person When we refer to a human being, we say a person. For example, a nice person, the last person to attend the conference and so on… When there are many human beings or individuals, we refer to them as persons. Example, ·   &nbs...

Comparative and Superlative forms of Adjectives and Adverbs

The English language uses adjectives and adverbs in a sentence to describe the quality of a noun or a verb. In other words, some words that add meaning to the noun or verb of a sentence are called adjective and adverb respectively.The adjectives and ...

Appositive

Did you just recently hear about appositives and now desperately want to know what they are and how they function? You came to the right page. Appositive is a relatively uncommon grammar term which many of us are unaware about. An appositive is a gra...

Article

You would have come across the simple word article many times while reading and speaking English and would probably know what it means very well. But are you aware of the term article in English grammar? Yes, the word article has an entirely differen...

Antecedent

English seems a pretty simple language at one glance but when you go deeper into it you will realize that there are many terms and things in this language which you are not familiar with. Antecedent is one such term. It is an English grammar based wo...

Auxiliary Verb

Verbs are one of the first parts of speech a child learns about in high school. They are the main building blocks of a sentence and English grammar is incomplete about them. We all know that a verb is an action word that describes the action taking p...

Collective Noun

Noun is the main part of a sentence and one of the most important pillars of English grammar. Noun is the name of thing, place or person in a sentence. A noun can further be classified into proper noun, common noun, collective noun and many more.Toda...