Definition and Examples Interjections of greeting are use to greet a person or express the sense of concern for him. For Example- Hello, hi, hey, ahoy, goodbye etc. Examples of Interjections of Greeting Hello! Is anybody listening? Hi! Where have you been for so long? Hey! Where have you been? Should be noted that when …
Definition with Examples Distributive Determiners are words that give information about the noun in a clause or sentence. They may refer to a group or every individual in the group. Examples/words/list of Distributive Determiners are- each, every, all, both, half, either and neither. For an instance suppose you have two pens and you are saying …
Definition with Examples Possessive Determiners as the name suggest are used to ascertain the possessiveness of an article, noun or any person etc. The words/list/examples of Possessive Determiners are – my, its, his, their, her, our, and your. Please note that the possessive Determiners should not be confused with possessive pronouns i.e. me, him, you, …
Definition with Examples There are three interrogative Determiners in English grammar- what, which, whose. They are used to frame a question. Interrogative Determiners usually ask questions about a noun and are always followed by the noun. Interrogative Determiners should not be confused with the Interrogative Adverbs and the two are completely different in the purpose …
Definition with Examples Quantifiers determine the quantity of the subject. Quantifiers are used to determine the physical as well as psychological quantities for both countable as well as uncountable nouns- ‘too much pressure’, ‘several apples’, many people, much stress, much hard work, etc. Find here some examples: This is my first car after job. He scored …
Definition with Examples There are three article Determiners in English- a, an, the. As the name suggest Article Determiners are used to determine an article, object or noun in a clause and is always followed by it. For Ex- an apple, a grape, a biscuit, a cheese cake, an alligator, the houseboat etc. We will …
Definition with Examples Demonstrative Determiners refer to a person, place, article, thing and determine their physical or psychological distance from the speaker. Examples of Demonstratives are- here, this, these, there, those, that. Go through the following sentences- Examples Here are the books you asked for. ‘Here’ indicates the proximity of the articles-books to the speaker. …
Definition and Examples Correlative conjunctions are the conjunctions those work in pair and are used at two different places in the same sentence relating the element of one sentence to the other. Some common examples of correlative conjunctions are – either-or, both-and, whether-or, not-but etc. Go through the sentences written below- I am either going …
Definition with Examples A subordinating Conjunction is a conjunction that links a dependent clause (also called subordinate clause) to an independent clause. Consider the following sentence- Everyone stayed in the house because it was raining outside. In the above sentence ‘because’ links two clauses- ‘Everyone stayed in the house’ and ‘because it was raining outside’. …
Definition with Examples Coordinating Conjunctions are the words used to join two phrases, words, sentences or clauses having grammatical equivalence. There are seven most commonly used Coordinating conjunctions – for, nor, and, yet, so, but, or. You could easily remember them using the acronym- FAB-SONY (F-for, A-and, B-but, S-so, O-or, N-nor, Y-yet). Consider the following …
