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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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Using relative clauses

March 27, 2013

Relative pronouns can be used to combine two clauses into one sentence. A relative pronoun acts as the subject or object of its verb. It also serves as a conjunction connecting the two clauses. Study the examples given below. The pen has been stolen. I bought it yesterday. We can combine these two sentences using [...]

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Using as and like

March 25, 2013

Like is a preposition. It is used before a noun or a pronoun. She looks a bit like Elizabeth Tailor. He ran like wind. He always treated me like a sister. I haven’t seen anybody like him. She came into the hall looking like a princess. In all of these sentences like is followed by [...]

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Mistakes in the use of copular verbs

March 17, 2013

Copular verbs are special kind of verbs used to join an adjective or noun complement to a subject. Examples are: seem, appear, look, sound, smell, taste, feel, become and get. The problem with these verbs is that sometimes they are also used with other meanings as ordinary non-copular verbs. When they are used as copular [...]

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