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.
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-vocabulary/?couponCode=D6AA56576AAD001A5877 (MASTER ENGLISH VOCAB)
https://www.udemy.com/course/english-grammar-advanced/?couponCode=4A1A6DB0E06AA63F6C14 (MASTER ENGLISH GRAMMAR)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-phrasal-verbs/?couponCode=742EDC7DF39FCF96CBEC (MASTER PHRASAL VERBS)
https://www.udemy.com/course/master-english-language/?couponCode=94B26850564304442B43 (MASTER ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
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/
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYT1M-V-O5o
An English vocabulary lesson on the theme of ECONOMICS and FINANCE . For upper intermediate and advanced learners. Lots more on my blog. https://www.skype-lessons.com/vocabul...
Answer the questions:
Would you like to see house prices skyrocket or plummet?
Should we bail out the banks during a crisis?
Do you think interest rates will be raised or lowered?
Do you think your country should donate more in international aid, or less?
What can we do to alleviate poverty in developing countries? Should we cancel (write off) their debts?
When do you think the sanctions against Russia will be lifted?
What fiscal measures would you like to see brought in?
What do you think will happen in the future? Will the country go into recession, or enter a boom period?
Do you think the single currency is good for Europe?
Does your country have rampant inflation at the moment? What measures can be taken to curb it?
Where should the government levy new taxes?
Here is the vocabulary
House prices drop, fall, plummet, collapse, slump
Interest rates rise, increase, skyrocket
The value of the currency
DEBT
Cancel (wipe out) a (crippling) debt
Pay off (settle) (mounting) debts
Incur (run up) (substantial) debts
alleviate (ease) debts
raise or lower the interest rate
lift or impose sanctions and embargoes
go into or come out of a (severe) recession
Bring in fiscal measures...
..to boost economic growth
..to curb (rampant) inflation
..to prevent deflation
..impose (levy) taxes
..allocate funds or resources
undeclared earnings
tax evasion
abject poverty
impose austerity measures
turn over
bail out
cough up
fork out on
splash out on
set s.o back
More on my blog
https://www.skype-lessons.com/
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Leupvu0xGc
This lesson examines existential clauses and indefinite articles. We shall see that the indefinite article is often used in sentences where we simply affirm the existence of a noun. In other words, the clause displays 'informational lightness' and so we can't use the definite article.
This course will clarify the role played by both 'a' and 'the' and 'no article'.
Here are more article exercises
http://englishpage.com/articles/index.htm
More lessons can be found on my website
https://www.skype-lessons.com/articles/
And youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSkypelessons/
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1WvoyCssUQ
In this lesson, we analyse the clauses and parts of speech on the first page of Roald Dahl's 'The Witches'.
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_m5-0D750