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.
This lesson looks at how anyone, including native speakers, can improve their use of English. The most beautiful sentence ever written, this is the Hippocrates quote that was eluding me at the end of the class: 'It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.'
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlFy98iaZMs
This lesson examines several different ways of using definite and indefinite articles. It is the first of a course of lessons which will scrutinize the modern usage of articles, in the hope of making them a little easier to use.
There was a tiger in the zoo (existential description. present new information)
The tiger in the zoo was very frightening (referential)
Tigers are very dangerous (all individuals)
The tiger is very dangerous (the species)
The tigers which I saw at the zoo were very frightening (referential)
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And there are great exercises to test your articles here
http://englishpage.com/articles/index.htm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ZoR9gt3FU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7BsIi5ckmI
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
There are more English lessons on my website and youtube channel:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hgtH6r5Hcg
This lesson looks at conjunctions. If you would like a PDF of 'Grammar in Theory and in Practice', send 12 pounds to https://www.paypal.me/MrSkypelessons , and I will send a copy to your email. Paperback version is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grammar-Theory-Practice-David-Nicholls/dp/B08QWK88NQ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=N5IVHY3CQQBG&dchild=1&keywords=grammar+in+theory+and+in+practice&qid=1611221275&sprefix=Grammar+in+%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9rCPKBs6uc