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It is important to understand the difference between ‘either’ and ‘neither’ so that we don’t get confused between the two. Both words can be used as pronoun, conjunction and adjective; however, the use of ‘either’ is considered positive, while the use of ‘neither’ is considered negative. As adjective: ‘Either’ indicates one or the other, or […]
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Practice and Practise There is often confusion over the words practice and practise. In order to understand which to use, you must know the difference between a noun and a verb. This is because practice is a noun, but practise is a verb. If you follow US convention, you don’t need to worry about this as
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We say that a verb is a part of speech (or word class) that describes an action or occurrence or indicates a state of being. Generally, it makes more sense to define a verb by what it does than by what it is. Just as the “same” word (rain or snow, for example) can serve
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ACCESS Versus ASSESS As verbs the difference between access and assess is that access is to gain or obtain access to while assess is to determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate. As a noun access is (uncountable) a way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage. Access Noun (uncountable)
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An adverb is the part of speech (or word class) that is primarily used to modify a verb, adjective, or other adverb. Adverbs can also modify prepositional phrases, subordinate clauses, and complete sentences. Related Post: Part of Speech (Verb) POSITIONS OF ADVERB An adverb that modifies an adjective (“quite sad”) or another adverb (“very carelessly”)
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Skill Focus Planning an Interview The school holiday has begun. Many students try to forget school completely during their school holidays. That is not a bad idea. Instead, why not spend a little time in thinking about yourself – and what you are going to do when you leave school? Why not interview someone you
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Adjectives are the part of speech (or word class) that modify a noun or a pronoun. In addition to their basic (or positive) forms (for example, big and beautiful), most descriptive adjectives have two other forms: comparative (bigger and more beautiful) and superlative (biggest and most beautiful). Like the other parts of speech we’ve discussed, Adjectives
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Skill Focus: How to keep up with your English during the Holidays During the holidays, so many students play around and totally forget how to speak good English, they resume back to school and end up struggling with English language. The English language is permanently evolving and developing constantly as new words are created or adopted from other
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Grammar: Determiners Determiners are words which come at the beginning of the noun phrase. They tell us whether the noun phrase is specific or general. Determiners are a group of words which include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), possessive adjectives (my, their), numbers (one, two), and other words (any, both) that come before a
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Grammar: Adverbial Clauses A clause is a group of words containing a subject and predicate or a finite verb. (A finite verb is a form of a verb that shows the tense, number and person.) A clause can be a simple sentence or part of a sentence. Different elements – subject, verb, indirect object, direct
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