... common linking verb. The predicate adjective in linking verb sentences is used to give information about the subject. In the three example sentences, ancient gives information about the Tower of ... sense because they both modify nouns. For example, they modify the noun cars in the fol-lowing sentences:Slow cars should stay in the right lane.The cars in the left lane passed me.However, ... pronunciation of the possessive -’s (whether singular or plural) or -s’ is governed by the same rules that govern the pronunciation of the plural -s:/s/ if the noun ends in a voiceless consonant...
... SentencesWriting sentence fragments is a serious error. Writing run-on sentences is an equallyserious error.Question:What is a run-on sentence? Answer:A run-on sentence is two or more sentences ... SentencesAs we learned in Part One (pages 105–107), two or more simple sentences can becombined to form a compound sentence. SIMPLE SENTENCE : Dogs show affection for their owners.SIMPLE SENTENCE : ... object, car,like a verb.)PROBLEMS WITH SENTENCESTRUCTURE 161 150 COMMON USAGE ERRORSLesson 20Problems with Sentence Structure There are three basic kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex....
... places in the grammar allow very little variation, and the learner must simply keep to the rules in these cases. Many grammar books concentrate on these restrictive rules, and make grammar appear ... perspective away from grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... usage.Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of English...
... exactly alike.15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time. 29 A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1CONTENTS Articles PEG chapter I1 Articles: a/an 2 Articles: the 3 Articles: ... very severe drought. it is/there isPEG 67,116-17Insert it is/there is in the spaces. In some sentences, contracted plural, negative and interrogative forms, or the past or future tense are ... now.19 I . . . a very interesting conversation with the milkman when myneighbour interrupted me.20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?21 It is difficult to learn a foreign...
... 110(2)spend on 234(1)spend time doing 140(3)split infinitive 117(1) Notesplit into 234(2)spoken English 53sport: countable/uncountable 144(5d)spread with/without object 8(3)staff: group noun...