Improve_Your_Written_English
Ellen Terry was born in 1847 and became a very famous actress. She acted in many of Shakespeare’s plays. This is written in the3 ...
singular plural personal possessive personal possessive 1st person I mine we ours 2nd person you yours you yours 3rd person he, ...
Knowing the articles There are three articles. They are usually placed before nouns and they are : the, a, an. ‘The’ is thedefin ...
Identifying finite verbs Finite verbsmust showtense. They can bepast, presentor futureand are always connected to a noun or pron ...
Identifying non-finite verbs The non-finite verbs are theinfinitive, thepresent participle and thepast participle. The infinitiv ...
Using the present participle The present participle always ends in ‘-ing’. To form a finite verb, introduce it by using the auxi ...
Ken hascooked the dinner. Chris haswritten a letter to his mother. The first three participles in the examples above are the sam ...
present perfect past perfect Ihave torn my skirt Hehad won the race Shehas swum twenty lengths Wehad promised to visit him. They ...
you in the front row! The second one also suggests that ‘he’ was moved by someone else. The following are the correct versions: ...
Heintends to write to his mother. Sheis running for a train. Theyhave swum across the river. Revising the points ◆ Each sentence ...
(c) QueenVictoria..................... (d)....................... won the race (e) Hiscousin......................... (f) He.... ...
Expanding Your Knowledge Making words ‘agree’ As well as the pronouns in the previous chapter there are a number of other pronou ...
Nobodylikes her. Anythingis better than that. Somethinghas fallen off the desk. Mistakes are often made with the pronoun ‘everyo ...
The Governments of France and England are both democratic. Introducing clauses Aclauseis the section of the sentence containing ...
She missed the trainso she was late for work. or She was late for workbecause she missed the train. Both ‘so’ and ‘because’ are ...
When her daughter came to stay, she put flowers in the spare room. or She put flowers in the spare roomwhen her daughter came to ...
Each main clause is separated from the next by a comma; ‘and’ precedes the last clause. ‘Or’ can also be used between two clause ...
The man,who had been bitten by a dog, became very ill. The boy,whose bike had been stolen, cried. The player,whom I supported, l ...
of sentences. Some types of writing only require the ‘basics’. However, other writing needs to be more colourful. You will need ...
The howling dog kept the family awake. (present participle) Thebroken doll lay on the floor. (past participle) Thewounded soldie ...
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