1 - ] Basic Grammar For Beginners - Parts of Speech / Sentences & Phrases

1 - ] Basic Grammar For Beginners

 

Table  of Contents   

1 . Parts of Speech

2 . Sentences & Phrases

3 . Nouns ( Singular & Plural )

4 . Personal Pronouns

5 . Reflexive Pronouns

6 . Adjectives

7 . Adverbs

8 .Indefinite & Definite Articles

9 . Some & Any

10. A few , a little , much , many and a lot of

11 . The Present Simple Tense

12 . The Simple Past Tense

13 . The Present Continuous Tense

14 . The Past Continuous Tense

15 . The Present Perfect Tense                                                                                                       

16 . The Past Perfect Tense

17 . The Simple Future Tense

18 . General Exercises on Tenses

19 . Active and Passive

20 . Conditional If

21 . Direct & Indirect Speech

22 . Too ………to

23 . Enough ……… to

24 . Asking Questions

25 . Prepositions

26 . Joining words

27 . Punctuation

28 . General Exercises

1 . Parts Of Speech

Any speech consists of words used to give meanings . They are mainly  nouns , pronouns verbs , adjectives , adverbs , and prepositions . They will be discussed separately .

Examples

Dogs like meat .    

Dogs noun ( subject ) , like verb , meat  noun ( object )

We live in a big city .

We  ( pronoun ) , live ( verb ) , in ( preposition ) , a ( indefinite article ) , big ( adjective ) , city  ( noun )

2 . Sentences & Phrases

Phrase

A word or words that does not or do not give meaning .

Examples

Ahmad and I are………..

Playing football…………

Because of his intelligence ……..

Being brave …….

Having finished ……..

The above phases do not give meanings , but when complete to give meaning they are called sentences .

Ahmad and I go to school .

Playing football is an interesting sport .

Because of his intelligence , he gets awards.

Being brave , he does not hesitate to face danger .

Having finished his work , he went home .

A sentence is what gives a complete meaning .

Kinds of Sentences

1 . Simple sentence .

It is a subject and a verb .

Examples  

Trees grow .

We come to school .

The brave man saved the little boy .

Each of  the above sentences has one verb ( the underlined word ) .

A simple sentence has just one verb .

2 . Compound sentence .

They visited the museum and they went fishing .

Though they are poor , they are happy ,

If you study hard , you will succeed .

Each of the above sentences is two simple sentences joined by a joining word .

They visited the museum . They went fishing.

They are poor . They are happy .

You study hard . You will succeed .

A compound sentence is two sentences joined by a joining word .

3 - Complicated sentence

The little boys who like swimming and have the ability to swim long distances  go to the beach and enjoy themselves there .

The committee had investigated the subject , and found a solution for the problem before  they travelled to the capital .  

We are interested in summer camping , so we go camping every year near the lake and  celebrate this occasion .

In each of the above sentence , we have more than two verbs .

The sentence that has more than two verbs joined to give certain meaning or meanings is called complicated sentence