Hmm…I guess those are just words that are coming and going. 唔…我想是单词在飞来飞去。 Well, can we make them stop, please? 好吧,拜托,能让它们停下来吗? No. It's actually quite normal. One of the reasons why English has grown as a world language is that it adapts easily to chan...
Gerunds… …look like verbs, act as nouns Function as subjects, direct objects (after action verbs), predicate nominatives (following linking verbs), or objects of preposition (follow prepositions) Can be replaced with “it,”“that,” or “what” and still make sense Always end in –ing E...
there are a few other words that are also key to understanding. These include negatives like no, not and never; demonstrative pronouns including this, that, these and those; andquestion wordslike what, where, when, how and why.
Yet there are wordsmonosyllables that do have an accent. They are the words that have different meanings such as yes (affirmation) or if (conditional) and carry the tilde to differentiate them. This tilde is calleddiacritical tilde. The most used monosyllables that have this tilde are the fo...
A basic English lesson, explaining how to pronounce words that end with -ion. Action? Transformation? Session? Learn how to say these words like a native speaker in this lesson.
Words That Need a Double Letter For some words you need to double the last letter before you add-ing. These words have a special pattern. The last three letters of the word have the pattern consonant-vowel-consonant (c-v-c). Vowels are the letters a, e, i, o, u. All other letter...
The third usage of the suffix –ingcreates nouns, calledgerunds. Gerunds are the act, the process, or the result of their original verbs. I lovereading! Substitutedogsorchocolateforreadingand it becomes clear that it is a noun. As you can see, the study of morphology is very helpful with...
The analysis shows that the first group of texts is influenced by English sources on syntax (such as usage of passive, personal pronouns, gerunds) and semantics (such as literate translations of idioms, false friends). They have somewhat more non-adapted English words than the second group of...
Mass nouns can be languages, liquids, gases, aggregate substances, food, metals, materials, and gerunds. Misused Phrases Lesson Summary Register to view this lesson Are you a student or a teacher? I am a student I am a teacher Start...
Although and even though are conjunctions. They introduce a subordinate clause. Despite and in spite of are prepositions. They are followed by nouns, pronouns, or gerunds. The clauses with 'although' and 'even though' contain a subject and a verb. ...