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 focus on the topic of ellipsis. Ellipsis is the omission of a word or phrase from a sentence because it's meaning is clear from the context.
I have more respect for Kepler than for you
I have more respect for Kepler than you do
He's in love with money more than with his wife
He's in love with money more than his wife is
The performance will be better this year than it was last year
Please practise with the following exercises
https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/advanced/a_grammar/file06/nef_int_grammar_6_02?cc=us&selLanguage=en
http://www.flesl.net/Grammar/ellipsis(ex+).html
And more lessons are on my website
https://www.skype-lessons.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VhSL8h-AbM
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-language/?couponCode=DEB3A7477831D88B071E (MASTER ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
https://www.udemy.com/course/english-grammar-advanced/?couponCode=BBF85AF8B896F4284646 (MASTER ENGLISH GRAMMAR)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-phrasal-verbs/?couponCode=2A11774BC928BFFB189B (MASTER PHRASAL VERBS)
https://skype-lessons.com/ (MY WEBSITE for private English lessons and Ebooks)
Paperback versions of my books are on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grammar-Theory-Practice-David-Nicholls/dp/B08QWK88NQ/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Phrasal-Verbs-Black-white/dp/1097343499/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nly_3hJEi0
This is an intermediate English lesson which looks at how we use gerunds (verb + ing), infinitives and to + infinitive. https://www.skype-lessons.com/blog/gerunds-and-infinitives/
GERUND VERBS
like, love, hate, enjoy
start, finish, stop, begin
suggest, recommend, regret, admit, avoid, deny
can’t stand, can’t bear, can’t help
mind, imagine, keep, miss
prefer, risk, practice
Here is a quiz to test your knowledge
http://www.quiz.biz/quizz-365019.html
Please go to my blog for more English lessons
https://www.skype-lessons.com/blog/
And please try the following videos for an elementary / advanced lesson on the same topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlx0uiAR8a4&list=PLEHBbj8NPA2wHQqzUNe9iHpPzfnzIa-An&index=15 (ELEMENTARY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=konyY8sQQ4E&index=1&list=PLEHBbj8NPA2wtJEc5vGnNvBgS9e1k5EcX (ADVANCED)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x90lVuQULYc
https://skype-lessons.thinkific.com/
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-phrasal-verbs/?couponCode=AEEBCE500AD61B073D62 (MASTER PHRASAL VERBS)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-vocabulary/?couponCode=39BE40648E37BF174C17 (MASTER ENGLISH VOCAB)
https://www.udemy.com/course/english-grammar-advanced/?couponCode=E1F6FE9C85137B4719DF (MASTER ENGLISH GRAMMAR)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-language/?couponCode=768528249C1AA45E7F7B (MASTER ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-conversation-beginner-level/?couponCode=5B35496E36206CF7C126 (BEGINNER ENGLISH)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-phrasal-verbs/?couponCode=AEEBCE500AD61B073D62 (MASTER PHRASAL VERBS)
https://skype-lessons.com/ (MY WEBSITE for private English lessons and Ebooks)
Paperback versions of my books are on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grammar-Theory-Practice-David-Nicholls/dp/B08QWK88NQ/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Phrasal-Verbs-Black-white/dp/1097343499/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZ5dhzgyVc