Deploying tense forms appropriately
Tense is one of the verbal systems that largely control and affect meaningful expressions in English. Different tense forms perform...
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Tense is one of the verbal systems that largely control and affect meaningful expressions in English. Different tense forms perform...
Determiners are often confused as adjectives by many speakers of English. While adjectives are words that describe, such as intelligent,...
Characteristically, nouns are modified by articles. The modifying articles in English are three, and they are: ‘a’,’ an’ and ‘the’....
Idiomatic expressions, or idioms for short, are witty expressions that embody meanings, which may not be recoverable from the meanings...
In this treatise, I describe as unconventional nouns those whose plural markers do not generate their plural forms. For such...
Adjectives are words used to describe nouns and pronouns. They include: good, bad, beautiful, mature, intelligent and so on. I...
Punctuation marks are central to successful communication in writing. They are to writing what stress, rhythm and intonation are to...
Mass nouns are nouns denoting something that cannot be counted, such as a substance or a quality. Mass nouns—or uncount/non-count/uncountable...
Let me start with the assurance that this treatise will not bore you with the intricacies of oral English. The...
The controversy surrounding sounds and letters has been demystified in one of my previous lessons, but the choice of indefinite...