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Pronoun

Pronoun Examples in sentences: Read the following text carefully! My name is Vanessha Del. I am a student of Islamic Senior High School 1 Bandar Lampung, aka MAN 1 Bandar Lampung. It is situated in Sukarame sub-district, Bandar Lampung. I live in Sukarame as well, not far from the school. It only takes me about 5 minutes to go on foot to get the…
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Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech Parts of speech, also known as word classes, are the basic types of words of English. According to a term in traditional grammar parts of speech are the categories of words which are classified based on their functions in sentences. Some grammar sources categorize parts of speech into 9 or 10 parts…
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Adjective Clause
Adjective Clause A. Definition An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival or relative clause, is a dependent clause that functions as an adjective in a sentence. It modifies a noun or a noun phrase. It means that it describes, identifies, or gives further information about a noun or a noun phrase. As a noun…
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Reduced Adjective Clause
Reduced Adjective Clause If you want to study about Adjective Clause first, just click here! Reduced adjective clause is the reduction of a full adjective clause. You can reduce an adjective clause when the relative pronoun is the subject of the adjective clause. The result of the reduction is then a phrase. You can do it in two…
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Relative Pronoun
Relative Pronoun A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause within a larger sentence. It is called a relative pronoun because it relates the relative (and hence subordinate) clause to the noun that it modifies. A relative pronoun links two clauses into a single complex clause. In English, the relative pronouns are: who,…
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Kind of Adjectives
Kind of Adjectives To see the definition of adjective and its forms, just click here! There are many kinds of adjectives, among others are: 1. Possessive Adjectives Possessive adjectives, also known as possessive determiners, are a part of speech that modifies a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessive_adjective). Possessive…
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Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative adjective demonstrates or indicates noun. It shows whether a noun a speaker refers to is singular or plural and if it is near or far from the speaker. The four demonstrative adjectives are this, that, these and those. This indicates that the noun the speaker refers to is near and that is far. Demonstrative adjective is put before…
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Interrogative Adjectives
Interrogative Adjectives Interrogative adjectives modify a noun or a noun phrase to show a question about the noun/noun phrase. The interrogative adjectives among others are what, which, and whose. They actually don’t stand on their own but stick to the words they modify. Pay attention to the following examples: 1. Which color do you prefer?2. What subject do you like best?3. Whose…
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Indefinite Adjectives
Indefinite Adjectives Indefinite adjectives are indefinite pronouns which function as adjectives; they are used to modify nouns or noun phrases. As the name indefinite (unspecified, unknown, indeterminate, undefined), then indefinite adjectives give general information about the nouns/ noun phrases they modify; they do not point out specific thing. And indefinite adjectives frequently answers the question “How much?”.…
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Adjective Order
Adjective Order Adjectives function to modify nouns in order to give detailed description about the nouns. Using adjectives is very important to make your writing more descriptive and interesting. Adjectives help readers/listeners draw a picture on their mind about the thing you are described. Actually there are some kinds of adjectives, and attributive adjective is the one we are going to discuss here. Attributive…