Definition Lexical verb is also called as main verb or full verb. We can define it as “Lexical verb is any verb that is not an auxiliary verb (helping verb)”. The verb phrase used is a sentence is headed by the lexical verb. Explanation Lexical verbs are used as the main verb in the sentence. …
Definition We can define auxiliary verb as, “An auxiliary verb is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it appears such as to express tense, modality, aspect, voice, emphasis, etc.” Explanation Auxiliary verbs (also called as helping verbs) are used with a main verb to show the verb’s tense, …
Definition We can define it as, “An action verb is a verb that expresses physical or mental action. The action verb tells us what the subject of our clause or sentence is doing-physically or mentally”. OR, “A word belonging to the parts of speech, that is the center of the predicate, which describes an act …
Definition of Pronoun Pronoun can be defined as “A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).” Explanation A pronoun is a word that …
Definition Interrogative pronoun can be defined as “An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used in order to ask a question. Often it has no antecedent because the antecedent is unknown. That is why the question is being asked! In modern English there are five interrogative pronouns: what, which, who, whom, and whose.” Explanation Interrogative pronoun …
Definition Relative pronoun can be defined as “A relative pronoun is used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun. You see them used everyday with the most common relative pronouns being: who, whom, which, whoever, whomever, whichever, and that.” Explanation Relative pronoun is used in the sentence to introduce a relative …
Definition Reciprocal pronoun can be defined as “A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun which is used to indicate that two or more people are carrying out or have carried out an action of same type, with both receiving the benefits or consequences of that action simultaneously. Any time something is done or given in return, …
Definition Distributive pronoun can be defined as “A distributive pronoun considers members of a group separately, rather than collectively. They include each, any, either, neither and others.” Explanation Distributive pronoun is a pronoun which denotes persons or things of group separately that’s why they always become singular and followed by the singular verbs. This pronoun …
Definition Indefinite pronoun can be defined as “An indefinite pronoun does not refer to any specific person, thing or amount. It is vague and “not definite”. Some typical indefinite pronouns are: all, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything, each, everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone.” Explanation Indefinite pronouns refer persons or things in …
Definition Demonstrative pronoun can be defined as “A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that is used to point to something specific within a sentence. They can indicate items in space or in time, and they can be either singular or plural.” Explanation Demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun which we use in the sentence to point …
