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Exploring the Definition of A 'Win Real Money' Casino: Is It a Gimmick?
With so many online casinos out there, picking the ones that are trustworthy and worth your time (and money) can be confusing sometimes. Of course, we’ve all heard of players walking away…
Grasp vs. Gasp vs Gape vs. Gap
Grasp Grasping a concept is to understand it quickly. Grasping something is to get hold of it tightly. ·         She grasps the concepts easily. · …
Present perfect tense
First let’s understand the syntax – Use has/have and 3rd form of verb to form present perfect sentence. For example – We have seen this movie. (see(1) saw(2) seen(3)) She has cleaned her room. (cle…
complement verb
A complement verb, or phrasal verb, comprises a verb and a preposition. We have hundreds of them in the English language: dredge up, drop out, make up, mess up, screw up, and the list goes on and on.…
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. ·   …
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Tenses refer to the part of English grammar that contribute to the formation and structure of each and every sentence. It actually refers to the verb and the time of it occurrence in a specific sente…
Conjugating the Verb "To Be"
Now let’s take the verb to be through a complete conjugation. But first, consider its uniqueness.
To Be, Unique Among All Verbs
In the entire English language, one verb stands …
Adjectives - Phrases and Clauses
It’s SHOUTING time again. Wake up. This stuff is important.
There are two main types of word chunks, clauses and phrases. A clause is a bunch of words with a conjugated verb in it. A phrase is a b…
“Your” and “Its”
Personal Pronouns - Watch Out - Your and its
I would be remiss in my duties as an early 21st-century reincarnation of Miss Hamrick if I didn’t pause and talk a bit about serious p…
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Past Perfect Tense
Tenses hold vital importance in English grammar and language. The term tense has literal meaning of stress or tension but in English grammar it depicts something entirely different.Today I will discu…
States of Adjectives: -er or more, -est or most
Adjectives Comparative and Superlative
You ask, therefore, how to tell when to use the ‑er and ‑est endings and when to use the helping words more and most? There’s no hard and fa…
Plurals of Nouns
Notice that words are characterized as nouns by their ability to form plurals. (Some pronouns have this ability as well, e.g., other and others.) You will form the plural for most nouns by adding ‑s …
Group Nouns - Singular or Plural
Committee Do or Committee Does?
Finally, some nouns that look singular might be treated as plural. Words such as group, team, majority, and many others are called collective noun…
Verb Function 1 - Conjugated Verb
The conjugated verb performs the most crucial role in English: It forms the sentence. Without the conjugated verb, we would have no complete grammatical sentences.
When conjugated, the verb forms …
avarice - vocabulary
avarice - noun An unquenchable desire for riches; a miserly desire. By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding th…
Serial-Comma Rule - Red, White, and Blue
When you use a coordinating conjunction to join two elements of a series, no comma comes before the conjunction. But when you join three or more elements, the preferred rule …
Conclusion to the Section on Grammatical Mistakes
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Conclusion to the Section on Punctuation
We hope you have enjoyed, and profited from, this discussion on the rules of punctuation. If you have, we hope you’ll tell your friends about Grammar.com.
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nominal clause
A nominal clause is a group of words with a conjugated verb in it that acts as a noun. Also called a noun clause, this structure can fulfill virtually all functions of a noun. A nominal clause starts…
banal - vocabulary
banal - adjective Drearily commonplace, hackneyed, trite, lacking in originality. If you killed off Lizzie McGuire's entire family and sent her to live with an evil stepmother and tw…
Sundae vs. Sunday
“Sundae” vs. “Sunday”The main reason why some people tend to confuse “Sundae” and “Sunday” is their similar spellings. To make things even more confusing, both words are nouns as well as common, ever…
Octopi vs. Octopuses
How simple is it to identify the correct form of the plural of a word, in a rich vocabulary where there are plenty of rules regarding word formation, plural formation etc.? To get more specific, when…
The Complex World of IQ Testing: History, Applications, and Controversies
The Complex World of IQ Testing: Guide by Cerebrum IQ Owing to its applicability in classrooms, child and adult assessment, as well as influence on society, Intelligence Quotient (IQ) testing has b…
Loath vs. Loathe
Elle was loathed to admit that she loathed her mother. Read the above sentence and ponder for a moment. Does it make sense? What context do you get out of that sentence? If it is confusing and you c…


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A They are going to the concert tonight.
B She finished her homework before dinner.
C She had already eaten when he arrived.
D We will have completed the project by Monday.

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