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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Here is my fourth idioms lesson, explaining how we use 10 different idioms all connected to the theme of the colours. The level is upper intermediate. Here are the idioms
1) A red herring
2) Pot calling the kettle black
3) Out of the blue / a bolt from the blue
4) ...until I was blue in the face
5) Once in a blue moon
6) to pass with flying colours
7) the grass is always greener on the other side
8) to catch s.o red handed
9) to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
10) to be in the red/black
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Here is an English lesson on some of the most common nouns and adjectives derived from phrasal verbs. Please answer the following questions:
1) Do you usually make a back up of any work you are in the middle of? Has this 'fail safe' ever let you down for some reason?
2) Has there been an outbreak of flu in this winter period?
3) Do you enjoy watching the build up to major sporting competitions, or do you prefer the main event?
4) Describe the layout of your house
5) Do you find any aspects of this video offputting? Perhaps the microphone, or the lighting, or the autofocus?
6) When was the last time you bought something at a knock-down price?
7) If you quit your job, what would be the outcome/fallout?
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