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6 Types of Subjects: More than a Noun or a Pronoun
When you think of the subject in the sentence, you usually think of a noun or a pronoun. This is because the subject represents what or whom the sentence is about. Understanding and recognizing the subject of the sentence will help you...
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | English Grammar
Verbs can either be transitive or intransitive. Transitive verbs must have a direct object to complete the thought. Intransitive verbs do not have a direct object.
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Nouns Verbs & Adjectives | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students how to identify and use nouns, verbs and adjectives. Lesson includes worksheet and activities. Download the lesson worksheet (see Link #4) before starting the lesson.
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Past Tenses in English
Consolidate your understanding of the past tenses in English. In this video, we'll teach you all about the four past tenses and how to use them correctly. We'll cover simple past, past perfect, past continuous and past perfect...
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How To Reduce the Adverb Clause (free PDF)
This lesson is an introduction to reducing adverb or adverbial clauses. There may be times when you will want to reduce the adverb clause. The reduced adverb clause is especially used in formal writing by adding variety to your sentence...
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How to Reduce the Adjective Clause: Relative Clause Reduction
An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Why would you want or need to reduce the...
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Catenative Verbs | A Chain of Verbs
Catenative verbs are verbs that connect to other verb forms and form a chain; thus their name catenative because in Latin, catena means chain. A catenative verb will link or connect to other verbs to form a chain of verbs. And in theory,...
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Auxiliary Verbs (Helping Verbs) | Learn English
Auxiliary verbs are often referred to as ‘helping verbs’ because they work with the main verb in a sentence. There are two types of auxiliary verbs: primary and modal. This video explores both primary auxiliary verbs and modal auxiliary...
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Question Tags | ESL Grammar
A question tag is a very short question ‘tagged’ on to the end of a statement. They're used to turn statements into questions. Question tags are generally used to confirm information that we believe to be true.
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Finite vs Non-Finite Verbs | Learn English
What are finite and non-finite verbs? Finite verbs change form according to the subject. They also show tense. Non-finite verbs do not change to match the subject, and they do not show tense on their own.
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Complex sentences in #englishgrammar #shorts
Complex sentences are made up of an independent clause and a dependent clause. An independent clause has a subject, a verb, and is a completed thought. A dependent clause has a subject, a verb, but is not a completed thought.
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An Introduction to Phrasal Verbs | Learn English
Phrasal verbs can be very difficult to learn. They don't follow rules and can have very different meanings from their literal interpretations.
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The BE Verb: Be, To Be, Being, Been~All About Be
The BE verb is the most important verb in the English language. It communicates a state of being, or existence. The verb BE is used as a main verb as well as an auxiliary verb. It is a most irregular verb and has eight forms: be am are...
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Passive Causative Verbs ~ Advanced English Grammar Lesson
In today's lesson, you'll learn about passive causative construction. This is an advanced lesson, so please watch the previous lesson on the active causative. • Causative Verbs ~... There are times when the passive causative is...
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When to Use the Gerund (-ing) and Infinitive (to): Is There a Difference in Meaning?
In today’s lesson we are going to compare two verbals: the gerund and the infinitive. From previous lessons, you learned that a gerund is a verb form that acts like a noun. And an infinitive is also a verb form that can take the form of...
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What is a Gerund? How Can a Noun be Derived from a Verb?
A gerund is a type of verbal that has the form of a verb but acts as a noun. In fact, because a gerund looks identical to the present participle some grammarians refer to it as the gerund-participle. This is because both the gerund and...
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Types of Phrases | 7 Types | English Grammar | Syntax
A group of words that may take the place of a part of speech is called a phrase. A phrase is a group of connected words, not containing a subject and a predicate. In other words, a phrase does not have a subject and verb. (If a group of...
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Reading Comprehension | 8 Types of Context Clues to Be a Better Reader
Knowing the eight common types of context clues will help you be a better reader and unlock the meaning of complex text. In this lesson, we look at the 8 types of context clues. Examples are given.
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Syntactic Properties of Phrasal Verbs | Lesson 1 of 3
In today’s lesson, we’ll look at phrasal verbs from a grammatical perspective. You’ll learn about the syntactic features of phrasal verbs, particles as adverbs or prepositions, and the difference between phrasal verbs,...
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Causative Verbs ~ Advanced English Grammar Lesson
Today, you’ll learn how we define true causative verbs The causative verb structure of the sentence The Causative verb structure of the sentence. (Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative) Using modals with the causative structure The...
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ADVANCED LESSON: How to Reduce the Adjective Clause: Relative Clause Reduction
An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Why would you want or need to reduce the...
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ADVANCED LESSON PART 2: How to Reduce the Adverb Clause
In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...
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INFINITIVES: Everything You Need To Know
An infinitive is a verb that is not bound by time. An infinitive is a base verb, or a verb in its basic form. This is called the bare infinitive. But when you think of the infinitive you probably think of the verb form called the full...
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Ultimate ASP.NET 5 Web API Development Guide - Install and Explore Postman
This video shows how to install and explore Postman. This clip is from the chapter "Environmental Configuration" of the series "Ultimate ASP.NET Core Web API Development Guide".This section talks about the environmental configuration...