English Grammar

English grammar lectures and rules

  • Qualitative and Relative Adjectives ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH

    Adjective is a speech part determining nouns. They answer the question What kind? There’re common/descriptive and proper/personality adjectives. Multi-root adjectives are compound. Adjectives make description more specific.Mexican foodfaraway landQualitative AdjectivesSemantically adjectives may be qualitative or relative. Qualitative adjectives describe objects directly by denoting their shape, size, color or other general…

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  • Indefinite Pronouns some, any, no What is an indefinite pronoun?

    Indefinite pronouns are those referring to one or more unspecified objects, beings, or places. They are called “indefinite” simply because they do not indicate the exact object, being, or place to which they refer.Indefinite pronouns include partitives such as any, anybody, anyone, either, neither, nobody, no, someone, and some; they…

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  • SUBSTANTIVIZED ADJECTIVES

    Adjectives can often become substantivized (become nouns). In such cases they are either wholly (fully), or partially substantivized.I. Wholly substantivized adjectives(converted into nouns) acquire allthe features of nouns: number, case, articles. They denote:1) Class nouns:a relative, a native, a savage, a criminal, a white, а black,a romantic, a cynic, a…

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  • The Subjunctive Mood

    A verb is in the subjunctive mood when it expresses a condition which is doubtful or not factual. It is most often found in a clause beginning with the word if. It is also found in clauses following a verb that expresses a doubt, a wish, regret, request, demand, or…

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  • CASES OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH – POSSESSIVE CASE AND COMMON CASE

    There are only two cases of nouns in English: possessive case and common case.English nouns have only two cases: Possessive Case where nouns take the special ending; and Common Case where nouns don’t have any ending.The Common case is the form in which the noun is given in the dictionary.English…

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  • Смысловые глаголы, вспомогательные глаголы и полувспомогательные глаголы. Notional verbs, auxiliary verbs and semi-auxiliary verbs

    Главная » Грамматика » Глагол (The Verb) »Смысловые глаголы, вспомогательные глаголы и полувспомогательные глаголы. Notional verbs, auxiliary verbs and semi-auxiliary verbsПо значению и выполняемой в предложении функции глаголы делятся на смысловые глаголы, вспомогательные глаголы и полувспомогательные глаголы.Смысловые глаголы (Notional verbs) имеют самостоятельное лексическое значение и обозначают действие или состояние предмета…

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  • Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives in English дарачањои ќиёсии сифат

                                                         ADJECTIVE  DEGREES                                               Forms          Positive                                   Comparative                                       Superlative Non-comparative                  Comparing two nouns                         compare more Base adjective                         adj+than                                              than two nouns Frank is sweet                         Gwen is sweeter                                   the+adj                                                    than  Frank          mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? An adjective in English is a part of…

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  • DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH Нутќи айнан ва мазмунан наќлшуда

    Direct and indirect speech can be a source of confusion for English learners. Let’s first define the terms, then look at how to talk about what someone said, and how to convert speech from direct to indirect or vice-versa.You can answer the question What did he say? in two ways:by…

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  • MOOD OF VERB Сиѓаи феъл

    English verbs have four moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and infinitive.Mood is the form of the verb that shows the mode or manner in which a thought is expressed.1. Indicative Mood: expresses an assertion, denial, or question:Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas.Ostriches cannot fly.Have you finished your homework?2. Imperative Mood:…

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  • Verb, the categories of voice and aspect The category of voice

    The category of voice expresses the relations between the subject and the object of the action. He invited his friends. – He was invited by his friends. In the first sentence he – is a doctor of the action, in the second – the object of the action.The grammatical category…

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