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.
How do we compare and contrast in English? It's easier than you think. Find out in this elementary English lesson.
Making comparisons in English is quite easy. The rule which you must follow for both comparisons and superlatives is rather basic.
Small words (1 syllable) + 'er' , + the _____ 'est'
Cheap, cheaper, the cheapest
Hot, hotter, the hottest
(Exceptions: good, better, the best; bad, worse, the worst)
2 syllable words ending in y
Funny, funnier, the funniest
Happy, happier, the happiest
Big words (2 syllable or more)
interesting, more interesting, the most interesting
exciting, more exciting, the most exciting
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This English lesson focuses on how we compare two things using the following grammatical forms:
(not) as + adjective + as
as much/many/few/little as
as + adjective + noun + as
no + adjective + than
not any + adjective + than
so / such
slightly, a bit, far, a lot, much
Like / As
too /enough
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