Understand the different types of conjunctions—coordinating, subordinating, and correlative, providing clear explanations and conjunction examples. This guide offers valuable insights and examples to enhance your understanding and usage of conjunctions. Do you Know? Conjunctions are the glue of language, c...
In such a usage, to gray means “to change toward the color gray,” as in the following examples: My worry is that my hair will continue to gray with age. The sky tends to gray quickly when a rainstorm approaches. Although you might not run into these types of statements very often,...
I entirely dispute the blogger’s examples of when “different than” is the acceptable choice over “different from”. You use “different than” if you’re making a comparison – for exclusion it should always be “different from”. People who care about language – and certainly ...
different to. . . is permissible (see, for evidence,The O.E.D.) . . .Different. . .thanseems to occur more and more frequently in the New York daily and weekly press. Evidently the comparative sense of the word rather than the fact of its positive form may govern the syntax. Whethe...
3 Then we start to ‘unpack’ some of the language in the text. ( Incidentally, I would highly recommend Scott Thornbury’s video on‘unpacking a text’) Here we’re focusing on adverbs. Students compare the examples of adverbs they can find in the text with the rules and examples in ...
For instance,both have various nouns to represent names of things or concepts; both have different verbs to refer to actions and states of various kinds; in order to describe characteristics of things or actions,English and Chinese have such modifiers as adjectives or adverbs; besides notional ...