What are Linking verbs?
A linking verb is a verb that describes the subject by connecting it to a predicate noun or predicate adjective.
Example:- The room is hot.
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Action Verbs
Action verbs are words that express an action and the most common verbs like eat, run, speak, cry, smile, think, jump, walk etc.
Action verbs are used to highlight your skills, experience and accomplishments.
Adjectives
What is an Adjective?
An adjective is a describing word. It gives more information about something.
What is a Clause? Definition, Examples & Types of Clauses
What is a Clause?
A clause is a group of words containing a subject as well as a finite verb.
Types of Clauses
– Independent Clause
– Dependent Clause
– Principal Clause
– Coordinate Clause
– Non-finite Clause
Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns assist in forming questions. There are five interrogative pronouns. Each one is used to ask a specific question or indirect question:
The five interrogative pronouns are what, which, who, whom, and whose. What – Used to ask questions about people or objects.
The interrogative form
The interrogative form is different if the verb is an ‘auxiliary’ verb (to be, to have, will, can, etc.), or a ‘normal’ (non-auxiliary) verb.
Interrogative of auxiliary verbs
Interrogative of normal verbs (non-auxiliary verbs)
Inverting the auxiliary to form the interrogative
Interrogative adverbs
What are interrogative adverbs?
Interrogative adverbs are why, where, how, when. They are used to the beginning of a question.
Example:
– How does he speak?
– When does the train arrive?
– Why are you so late?
– Where is my passport?
Quantifiers
What are quantifiers and examples?
Quantifiers are Adjectives and adjectival phrases that make up an important part of English Grammar.
How to Use Capital letters
We are able to write each letter of the English alphabet as a small letter (abc…) or as a large or capital letter (ABC…).
In English, we do not use capital letters very much. We use them in particular for the first letter of sentences, names, days, and months as well as for some abbreviations. We usually write the first person pronoun as a capital I.
Determiners
A determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate. English determiners also known as determinatives.
For example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘some’, ‘this’, and ‘each’.
