(A) Study the following sentences The woman said to her husband, “I met the boy on the road today.” “Take Mr Gupta upstairs,” Mrs Bethy said to Maggie. Sukumar said to his father, “Are you ever able to meet her in your heart ? “Oh, how I want to see her !” Sukumar said.In these … Read more
The Passive Mark these sentences and their changed forms : 1a. After five years I came back home and was met by her at the station.2a. The unique attempt was made (by Janaki) on 28 July 1992.1b. After five years I came back home and she met me at the station.2b. Janaki made this unique … Read more
Noun Clauses and Relative Clauses A clause is a group of words that form a part of a longer sentence and has a subject and predicate of its own. Single-clause sentences are simple sentences. Multi-clause sentences can be complex or compound sentences. Now, let us see what the clauses are. Let’s look at the following … Read more
Sayapatri and Sukumar looked at each other.The child looked up the word in the dictionary. In the above sentences the verb look has two parts — a main verb (look) and another small word ( at, up ). In sentence 1, the small words at is a prepositional particle and in sentence 2, up is … Read more
Prepositions Examples: My grandmother always went to school with me because the school was attached to the temple.The word that have been made bold are called prepositions. what is prepositions? Prepositions are a small set of English words or expressions that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. … Read more
A 1 (a) I felt ashamed to face Mrs. Bethy. 1 (a) I wrote a letter announcing my departure. The underlined expressions are non-finite verbs. Every simple sentence must have a finite verb and it must agree with the subject. We also know that the first auxiliary in a verb group takes tense and hence … Read more
Subject – Verb Agreement Grandmother was praying and telling her beads. The sparrows were not chirping. In 1 the verb is “was praying”. But in 2 the verb is “were … chirping”. Why is it so? In an English, sentence verb must agree with its subject in number and person. Its form depends on whether … Read more
Types of Sentences Look at the following sentences: Mr. Anil Mohanty is a teacher.He teaches us English.He has been teaching English for the last fifteen years. The verbs is, teaches, has, in the above sentences are finite verbs because they can be changed into past tense forms. The first word in a verb phrase is … Read more
Time is a continuous flow measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or years. On the other hand, Tense is a grammatical concept specific to a particular language. The tense system in English is not similar to that of any other language such as Odia or Sanskrit. The English language has only two defined tenses of … Read more