What are word classes? How can we recognize them? What role do they play in regards to punctuation? Grammar in Theory and in Practice was written for those who want straight answers, in plain English, to these crucial, yet rarely asked, questions.This essential guide empowers students to identify parts of speech rapidly, to employ punctuation marks confidently, and to examine syntax precisely, in four popular GCSE texts: Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Frankenstein, and 1984. Grammatical categories are neatly defined in the glossary, and each chapter is packed with practical and demanding exercises, testing your knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions. Topics range from the relatively simple, such as common pronoun errors or subject-verb agreement problems, to the somewhat complex, such as appositives, participles, or rhetorical devices. At the end of the course, there is a large punctuation section that revises the usage of commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens, and apostrophes.
In this English lesson we learn how to use the past perfect tense.
HAD DONE (Past perfect simple = state verbs and result)
HAD BEEN DOING (Past perfect continuous = duration)
SIGNAL WORDS
already, yet, just, how long, for, since, ever, never, before
He told me...He said... (REPORTED SPEECH)
He told me he had already finished the project
He said he had never seen the report
PART OF NARRATIVE (before past simple)
I knew I had met him before
I realised that he hadn't heard me clearly
REPORTED SPEECH
I explained that I had already met him
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This lesson describes the following prefixes and explains their meaning. More info on my website https://www.skype-lessons.com/prefixes/
over - overcharge, overwork, overrated, oversleep
under - underestimate, understaffed, underpaid
ir (r) - irreversible, irresponsible
ig (n) - ignoble
il (l) - illegal, illiterate, illogical
im (m,p) - impossible, immature, immaterial, impatient
in - inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent
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More lessons on gerunds and infinitives here
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And phrasal verbs are here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677aAF3dM3E&list=PLEHBbj8NPA2z5GB5GBRxzl6IOi2iHukOn&index=1
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In this lesson we examine different types of noun clauses (see lesson 2 for adjective and adverb clauses), and we also examine appositive modifiers.
More information on this topic on Will's excellent website.
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/exploring-grammar-types-of-clause-and.html
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