All posts tagged "appositive"
Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Possessive Pronouns and Possessive DeterminersAs I have written repeatedly, the line between grammatical forms is blurry at best, especially among lexical categories like noun, verb,...
English DeterminersNovember 27, 2019- Not All Forms That Function as Adverbials Are Adverbs
The other day I read a tweet that made some claims about adverbs: “The -s in “unawares,” as in “they were...
English AdverbsMay 1, 2019 - Are ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Today’, and ‘Tomorrow’ Nouns or Adverbs?
Are the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow adverbs or nouns? Oxford Living Dictionaries identifies all three words as an adverb first...
English AdverbsApril 14, 2019 - Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and Adjectives
Notional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
English AdjectivesMarch 31, 2019 - The Appositive in English Grammar
Appositives are words, phrases, and clauses that supports another word, phrase, or clause by describing or modifying the other word, phrase,...
Grammatical FunctionJune 14, 2018 - Intensive Pronouns in English Grammar
Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns, noun phrases, and other grammatical forms. Intensive pronouns are pronouns that add...
English PronounsJanuary 14, 2016 - Using Verbs and Verb Phrases as Appositives
Verbs have traditionally been defined by notional grammars as “words that denote an action or a state of being.” A verb...
English VerbsDecember 6, 2013 - English Noun Clauses
Noun clauses are independent, or subordinate, clauses that perform nominal functions. Clauses are grammatical structures that contain a subject and a...
English NounsSeptember 2, 2013 - English Pronouns
Notional grammars define pronouns as “small words that take the place of nouns and other grammatical forms.” Pronoun is a subcategory...
English PronounsAugust 29, 2013 - Nominal Functions of English Verbs and Verb Phrases
Traditional grammars define verbs as “action or state of being words.” Verb phrases are phrases that consist of a verb plus...
English VerbsAugust 22, 2013 - Using Noun Clauses as Appositives
In grammar, a clause is a grammatical structure that consists of a subject and a predicate. A dependent or subordinate clause...
English NounsAugust 19, 2013 - Using Pronouns as Appositives
The notional definition of a noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Pronouns are a subcategory...
English PronounsJune 28, 2013 - English Irregular Verbs: Simple Past and Past Participles
Irregular English verbs are verbs whose conjugations differ from the conjugation patterns of regular verbs. Many common English verbs are irregular...
English VerbsJune 12, 2013 - Grammatical Functions of English Noun Clauses
A noun clause is a dependent clause that consists of a subordinating conjunction followed by a clause and that performs a...
English NounsJune 11, 2013 - Past Participles of Irregular English Verbs
Past participles, or -en participles, are a nonfinite verb form in English that perform verbal and adjectival functions. The following sections...
English VerbsMay 14, 2013
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