The simple Sentence Study the following sentences: (i) Birds fly. (ii) He is working in the field. (iii) I have completed my work. (iv) They have been playing in the play ground. (v) Who came here? (vi) Father gave me a book. Each of these sentences has a subject and a fine verb in its …
ADVERBS AND ADVDERBIALS Adverbs tall us more about verbs Look at the answers to the following questions carefully 1. a. How did she sing? b. She sang beautifully. 2. a. When did you see him? b. I saw him yesterday. 3. a. Where were the children playing? b. They were playing there/in the park. 4. …
Adverbs and adverbials very often mean the same thing. An adverbial has more than one word. She came into the room quietly. She came into the room in the room in a quiet manner. Adverbials can be of the following categories. 1. An adverb phrase: We were driving very slowly. They played wonderfully well. 2. …
INTERROGATIVES YES/NO QUESTIONS (A) Study the following sentences: 1. It is raining. 2. Is it raining? Sentence (1) is a declarative sentence but sentence (2) is an interrogative sentence. We have two verbs; ‘is’ and ‘raining’ in the verb phrase. Here ‘is’ (be) is an auxiliary verb and ‘raining’ is the main verb. In …
Negatives 1. Mr Sinha is a doctor. 2. Mr Sinha is not a doctor. In sentence (1), ‘is’ is the main verb and the sentence is affirmative. In sentence (2), ‘not’ is used after the verb ‘is’ to make the sentence negative. Similarly: Affirmative Negative They are students. They are not students. I am …
PREDICATE PHRASE (VERB, OBJECT, COMPLEMENT AND ADJUNCT) Study the following sentence: (i) Mita laughed. (ii Madhu caught the ball. We have already seen that a sentence has two main parts –The subject and the predicate. In each of the above sentences the first word is the subject and the remaining words of the sentences belong …
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THE FUTURE You have already learnt that the English verb has two tense forms — the Present and the Past. These two tense forms are mainly used to talk about actions or events taking place in the present or past time respectively. For Example: 1. Mr Dash teaches us English. (Present tense form …
Types of Sentences: SIMPLE, COMPOUND & COMPLEX. 1. Types of sentences: A sentence has two main parts, a subject Noun Phrase and a predicate phrase. The predicate phrase must have a verb in it. A ‘clause’ has a structure like a sentence. It has a subject and a verb in the predicate phrase. A clause …
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The Complex Sentence: Look at the following sentences: (a) I know that he is a good boy. (b) I have a box which contains old clothes. (c.) My father arrived when I was just going out. Each of the above sentences has two clauses. In (a) there are two clauses (i) I know (ii) that …
Compound Sentences with two or more than two ‘main clasues’): Look at the following sentences: (i) I can speak English but I cannot speak Hindi. (ii) Deven worked hard and got a first division. In (i), we have two independent clauses. (a) I can speak Englsih, (b) I cannot speak Hindi. In (ii), we have …
