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definition

verbs
a word that represent an action or state of being.go, strike, travel, and exist are examples of verbs. A verb is the essential part of the predicate of a sentence. The grammatical forms of verbs include number, person, and tense.


articles 
in grammar the words a, an, and the, which precede a noun or its modifier. The is the definite article, a and an are indefinite articles.



past tense
a verb tense use to express an action or a condition that occurred in or during the past. For examples, in While she was sewing, he read a loud, was sewing and read are in the past tense.


present tense.
the verb tense expressing action in the present time, as in She writes;she is writing.


continuous tense
the present continuous of any verb is composed of two parts- the present tense of the verb to be + the present participle of the main verb.

past continuous tense
the past continuous tense of any verb is composed of two parts: the past tense of the verb to be (was/were), and the base of the main verb +ing.

past perfect tense
the past perfect express the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.

examples:

• I had never seen such as a beautiful beach before I went to Kauai.
• I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.
• Tony knew Istanbul so well because he had visited the city several times.
• Had Susan ever studied Thai before she moved to Thailand.

preposition
a word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and in regard to.

relative clauser

there are two different types of relatve clause:

1. A defining or identifying clause, which tells us which person or thing we are talking about. This kind of clause could often be information included in brackets.
2. A non defining or non essential clause, which give us more information about the person or thing we are talking about.

 adverbs
in most cases,an adverb is formed by adding "-ly' to an adjecive

punctuation mark


you use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing. The most common of  these are the period (or full stop in British English), the coma, the exclamation mark, dash, and parentheses and brackets. Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.


adjective
describe feelings or qualities:

        examples:

• He is a lonely man.
• They are honest people