Punctuations in English Punctuation Marks are very useful to make a sentence meaningful. If not correctly punctuated a sentence can be misleading conveying completely different meaning than what it actually intended to convey. For instance go through the below paragraph which has no punctuation marks at all- Punctuation Marks in a sentence make it meaningful …
Definition Modal Auxiliary Verbs are one of the types of Auxiliary Verbs which facilitate the main verbs providing more information like- mood, possibility, time, expectation, permission, ability and obligation. One main property of Modal Auxiliary Verbs is that they never change form; either while referring to singular or plural nouns. For Ex- They can, he …
Definition Active and Passive Voices are the two ways of expressing an action taken by a subject on an object. Meaning of the sentence either in active or passive voice doesn’t change except few structural changes. Kindly go through the below example- Active Voice- I draw a sketch. Active Voice is the most direct and …
Explanation Intransitive Verbs express the action that is taken by something or somebody upon itself; without any object. Intransitive Verbs doesn’t need an object to take action, unlike in Transitive Verbs where an object is required. Intransitive Verbs are not complemented by an Object. Go through the sentences given below- > He smiled. > Rocky …
What Are Transitive Verbs? Transitive Verbs are the words which need a direct object to complete the action (of verb) upon that direct object. Without the direct Object the sentence seems incomplete and irrelevant. Transitive verbs are always followed by a noun or an object, on which the action is being performed or is meant …
Definition and Examples A predicate of a sentence is that part of it, which defines what is being done by the Subject; it may consist of verb, complements, modifiers or objects. In other words a Predicate is part of a sentence which consists of everything except the subject. As the subject is a noun or …
Definition and Examples An Object in a sentence is a noun or pronoun on/for whom the verb/action is being performed. In any sentence the object usually answers the questions- on what? For whom? Where? When? etc, providing more details to the sentence. ‘Objects’ can be classified under three categories- Direct Objects, Indirect Objects and the …
Definition and Examples A subject in a sentence is a noun, pronoun, person, thing or place who is doing the task or is being asked/instructed/suggested to do it. In other words, a ‘subject’ in a sentence performs the verb. It is therefore very easy to identify the ‘subject’ in a sentence if you have identified …
Definition and Examples Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to describe an action or event which had occurred in the past and had continued for a specified time or period. There are two words used for the reference of time- ‘since’ and ‘for’. ‘Since’ is used when the exact time is specified or has a …
Definition and Examples Past Perfect Tense is used to describe actions that happened in the past either a long time ago or in the near past. It is also used to describe actions of the near past that have been completed or remain incomplete with reference to another activity. Carefully go through the below sentences. …
