March 2013

Joining two sentences using adjective clauses

March 31, 2013

Adjectives are words used to describe nouns. Examples are: nice, kind, beautiful, wise and hard. An adjective clause serves the same purpose as an adjective. Adjective clauses can be used to form complex sentences. As you have already learned, a complex sentence contains one main clause and one or more dependent or subordinate clauses. Study [...]

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Joining two sentences using a noun clause

March 30, 2013

Make one of the simple sentences the principal clause and change the other clauses into subordinate clauses. Note that the subordinate clause can be a noun clause, an adverb clause or an adjective clause. A noun clause acts as the subject or object of a verb. An adjective clause acts like an adjective. It is [...]

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Instead as an adverb and preposition

March 29, 2013

Instead is an adverb. It means ‘as an alternative’. He didn’t buy a large loaf. Instead, he bought two small loaves. She didn’t go to Greece. Instead, she went to Italy. Don’t marry Peter. Marry me instead. As an adverb instead goes at the beginning or at the end of a clause. When it goes [...]

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Sentence patterns using to-infinitives

March 28, 2013

A knowledge common sentence patterns is essential to use English correctly. In a sentence, words are arranged in a particular order. This order in which words appear in a sentence is called the pattern of that sentence. There are several sentence patterns in English. If you are serious about learning English, you must have a [...]

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