This course is very ā€˜Hands-onā€™ and straightforward. It will assist all who are trying to master or improve their English; from primary school level, all the way up to post-graduate university level. The complexity level starts at the very basics, e.g. verbs and nouns and then grows in complexity from there on.

Verbs: A verb is a doing word

Example: The man throws the ball ā€“ ā€˜throwsā€™ describes what the man is doing.

Now think of some doing words for yourself and practise them.

Subject: The subject in a sentence is the doer of the action.

Example: The man throws the ball ā€“ ā€˜manā€™ does the action.

Object: An object is the thing or person that is affected by or receives the action.

Example: The man kicks the ball ā€“ here the ā€˜manā€™ is the subject, ā€˜kicksā€™ is the verb and ā€˜ballā€™ is the object.

Sentence: A sentence is a group of words.

Important rule: A group of words containing no verb is not a sentence.

One of the simplest sentences in English is: ā€˜Jesus weptā€™. Though very short, this is a perfectly good sentence because it contains a subject and a verb –  ā€˜weptā€™.

Now you can practise sentences containing subjects, verbs and objects until you know exactly which one is which.

Definite Article: In English we have two types of articles; a definite article such as ā€˜theā€™ and an indefinite article such as ā€˜aā€™ or ā€˜anā€™. We use the definite article when we are referring to something that we already know about, or have written about, or have seen.

Example: ā€˜theā€™ horse refers to a particular horse that has been referred to before in the text, or that we have seen or spoken about before ā€“ ā€œI will give you the horse you saw earlier named Tommy.ā€

Indefinite Article: ā€˜Aā€™ horse refers to any horse, not a particular one. ā€“ ā€œI want a horse for my birthday.ā€

Now you know when to use ā€˜theā€™, ā€˜aā€™ or ā€˜anā€™).

Vowels and consonants:

All the letters in English are either vowels or consonants. There are only five vowels in English; a, e, i, o, u. The rest are all consonants.

Gender: Broadly speaking, there are three different genders in English; male, female and a third category that mostly comprises inanimate objects or various combinations of male and female. Mostly, the inanimate objects are referred to as ā€˜itā€™.It is important to specify gender in English sentences, to avoid confusion.

Prepositions: Prepositions come just before a noun, noun phrase or pronoun to show the relationship between the word and another word or a noun phrase.

They refer to relationships such as time or space

Example 1: ā€œHe went into the room.ā€ Here into is the preposition because it links the word, he and the noun phrase the room.

Example 2: The boy went home after school. Here, after is the preposition because it shows the time relationship between boy and school.

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