Take a quick moment to think about all of the things that are happening around you right now. If you’re inside, maybe a radio is playing music. Or maybe someone has been mowing their lawn for the past couple of hours. If you’re outside, you might see a car drive by. Or maybe some people on the street have walked past you. Regardless of what is …
We often use adjectives to spice up our sentences: while a tree may not be very interesting, everyone wants to hear about the gigantic, magical tree. We use lots of different types of adjectives, but most of them are used in the same way. We place them in front of nouns and pronouns when we want to describe them. But that’s not the only way …
Call yourself a grammar expert? Then you already know that adjectives are words that modify or describe nouns and pronouns. However, there is a certain type of adjective that isn’t too keen on the whole task of “describing” things. These adjectives are known as limiting adjectives. Limiting adjectives are much more interested in restricting a noun or pronoun than describing something about it. But don’t …
It’s positively wonderful to be positive whenever possible, and we are here to help with that. The word positive has a lot of different meanings, from “confident” to “favorable” to a number of specific definitions in scientific fields, such as electricity and chemistry. In this article, we are going to look at a number of adjectives that mean or express a positive attitude, general optimism, …
Nouns are important parts of speech that refer to people, places, things, and ideas. Sometimes, nouns need a break and ask pronouns to fill in for them. Pronouns can do all of the jobs that nouns do, such as acting as subjects or objects in sentences. However, there is a certain type of pronoun that doesn’t seem too motivated to do its job: the indefinite …
Prepositional phrases are handy modifiers that we can use to jazz up our sentences. Using prepositional phrases, we can turn a boring sentence like Nathan works into a great sentence like Nathan works at a secret base on the moon. Prepositional phrases are made of two main parts. Typically, prepositions get most of the attention, and prepositional phrases are even named after them. However, the …
What is something that you like to do as a hobby? Are your friends’ hobbies the same as yours? Or do you spend a lot of time by yourself? Alright, that’s enough questions. Sorry to put you on the spot, but it was necessary to give some examples of pronouns that are used to refer to … you. It is your time to shine, because …
We use articles in lots of our sentences. We use articles to say that we are going to the bank, the store, or the beach. If you want to talk about the news or the weather, you’ll probably need an article. There are two types of articles, but definite articles are the ones that like to talk specifics. In English, only a single word has …
It may be hard to believe but there was a time when you might pick up a book and be expected to decipher a text without the aid of uppercase letters, punctuation, or (horrors!) spacing. Can you imagine? One word would run into another, not to mention entire sentences and paragraphs. We are mighty thankful that punctuation exists—even if that means we have to experience …
You can use adjectives to say a lot of different things. Thanks to adjectives, you can tell someone that you had an amazing birthday or that you ate a delicious meal. You can use adjectives to talk about your exciting vacation, your favorite movie, or even your little dog. Adjectives come in many different shapes and sizes, but many of them have something in common: …
There are adjectives in English that are just plain funny. They sound peculiar, look odd on the page, and some even have rhyming schemes that make them seem like mini nursery rhymes. To learn about some adjectives that are droll, amusing, or at the very least diverting, read on. We’ve compiled a list of 17 unusual adjectives that may elicit a chuckle or two. But …
We’re all familiar with commas, periods, hyphens, and the like. Although semicolons can be confusing, we pretty much know what we’re doing when we punctuate a sentence. But don’t you get a little bored using the same old marks? Do you ever find yourself searching for the perfect way to convey a certain mood? As you’ll see, extra punctuation marks have been suggested at various …