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.
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How do we use modal verbs in English? The verbs HAVE TO / DON'T HAVE TO and MUST / MUSTN'T are examined in this elementary English class.
MUST / HAVE TO (obligation)
SHOULD / SHOULDN'T (opinion)
DON'T HAVE TO (not necessary)
MUSTN'T (not allowed)
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In this lesson we look at many nouns which are both countable and uncountable. Uncountable nouns (used in a general sense) have no article, whereas countable nouns MUST have an article. Here are some examples of words being used as countable and uncountable nouns.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
He had a private education.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
He has a wide knowledge of painting.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
It has been a pleasure to meet you.
He has lots of experience with computers.
It was a wonderful experience.
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Please use a good learners dictionary to find out if the word can be both countable and uncountable.
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This is the second lesson of a course I am doing on articles. I hope I can make clear another meaning of the word 'the', which defines one class among other classes (species, inventions, modes of transport, groups of people). https://www.skype-lessons.com/articles/
THE = specified
We know which one.
Identifiable to the listener
Used for 1 (specified) class, among other classes (The rich, the unemployed, etc..)
Therefore, also used for species, inventions, modes of transport etc....
A/AN = unspecified, countable/singular
NO ARTICLE = unspecified, plural/uncountable
It doesn't matter which one
Used for introducing or describing
Used when we mention something for the first time
Time expressions
In a week (future)
at the of the week (this week)
during the day/night
at night
in the morning/afternoon/evening
last/next year (2014, 2016)
the last year (unfinished period. 365 days to the present)
in the year 1999
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