Saturday 17 August 2013

Basic English Grammar



Grammar is the foundation to learning any new language. New learners of English language first need to know the basic rules of English grammar. It is very essential to build a strong base in grammar because it will help you to form sentences that are correct and will improve your communicating skills in both written and spoken language. Whether you’re going out for shopping or going abroad- learning to speak in English correctly will help you in your daily activities and will give boost to your confidence. 

It has been found that one of the biggest challenges that the new learners face while learning English is using correct tenses in their spoken and written English. There is plenty of grammar material online for free.
 Here we will look at few most important grammar rules that will help you improve your English:

Nouns

Noun is a name given to a person, thing, event or a place. For example Rahul, Jaipur, table, pride etc. Most of the nouns can be made plural by adding ‘s’ or ‘es’ at the end of it. For examples, ‘dogs’, ‘chairs’, ‘boxes’ etc. 

For nouns ending with letter ‘y’ we add ‘ies’ and remove ‘y’. For example, ‘city’ becomes ‘cities’, ‘quantity’ becomes ‘quantities’. 

Verbs 

Verbs are important components in a sentence. Verbs describe the action or state of a noun or subject. For example:

·         She is watching a movie.
·         Mahesh is an intelligent person. 

In the first sentence, ‘watching’ is an action verbs and in the second sentence ‘is’ is an auxiliary verb because it shows the state of Mahesh that is ‘intelligent’. 

Look at more examples:
·         Ria is writing a book.
·         She is cooking pizza. 

In the above sentences, ‘writing’ and ‘painting’ are verbs. They are very easily identified. If you want to know the verb in the sentence just ask yourself ‘what is the subject doing?’ Here, the subjects are ‘She’ and ‘Ria’. What is Ria doing? Ria is writing a book. So ‘writing’ is an action verb. What is she doing? She is cooking pizza. Hence, ‘cooking’ is an action verb.

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