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 …
NOUN CLAUSES AND RELATIVE CLAUSES Look at the following sentences: (i) I believe you story. (ii) I believe what you say. In sentence (i) your story is a noun phrase which functions as the object of ‘believe’ But in (ii) your story has been replaced by the clause what your say. The function and position …
RELATIVE CLAUSES Study the following sentences: (i) The boy who plays the violin is Amit. (ii) I have read the book which you wrote. The clauses in italics just after the noun phrases the boy and the book identify them. The clauses ‘who plays the violin’ relates to the Noun Phrase ‘The boy’ by stating …
NON-FINITE VERB FORMS. A. In class Ix Text you read that 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 it is a finite verb. All other verbs following it in that verb group …
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