English Grammar Lessons And Worksheets
Simple Present Active verb form: write/writes He writes a letter. I write letters. Passive verb form: is/am/are + written A letter is written by him. Letters are written by me. Present Progressive Active verb form: is/am/are + writing He is writing a letter. I am writing letters. Passive verb...
When we say what people and things do, we use active verb forms. When we say what happens to people and things – what is done to them – we often use passive verb forms. They built this...
Words of a language are divided into several classes on the basis of their grammatical behaviour. These different word classes or lexical categories are called the parts of speech. English has eight parts of...
A participle is a word which is partly a verb and partly an adjective. English has two participles: the present participle and the past participle. Forms like running, singing, walking and working are called present participles. Forms like worked, broken, gone, written and walked are called past...
A participle is a form of a verb that functions as an adjective. There are two kinds of participles: present participles and past participles. Present participles end in -ing (jumping, burning, speaking). Past participles usually end in -ed, -t, or -en (jumped, burnt, spoken). Barking dogs seldom bite. (The present...
Participles are used in absolute phrases with a noun or pronoun going before them. God willing, we shall meet again soon. The sea being rough, they abandoned the Channel swim. The fog having lifted, the plane took off....
Parallel construction Your writing will be clearer if you use parallel construction. By parallel construction, we mean words or expressions of similar form. Consider the sentence given below. Alice likes sewing, painting and to...
Underline the adjectives in the following sentences. You can learn about adjectives here. It was a brilliant idea. She was a kind woman. I am the right person for this job. You have done...
Adjectives are words that modify nouns. They tell us something about a noun. For example, they may tell us about a particular quality of a person or thing. Adjectives usually go before the nouns...
Sentences are given in the present continuous tense. Change them into the past continuous tense. I am typing a letter now. We are waiting for the bus. It is raining now. The children are...
