Useful Grammar Vocabulary

.............................. are substitutes for nouns and noun phrases; they're useful to avoid repetitions.

.............................. invariably define and modify nouns, whereas .............................. define and modify a range of words: verbs, adjectives and even other ...............................

.............................. precede nouns (the most common are articles).

all, every, each are ............................... : they all have to do with quantity.

I, you, she, it, he, we, they are all ...............................

Mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs are ...............................

Myself is ...............................

one another, each other are ...............................

This, these, that, those are ...............................

who, whom, which, that are ...............................

who?, what?, which? are ...............................

adjectives / adverbs / demonstrative pronouns / indefinite pronouns / interrogative pronouns / nouns / personal pronouns / possessive pronouns / pronouns / reciprocal pronouns / reflexive pronoun /relative pronouns

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.............................. are link words that link or join two parts of a sentence or two nouns ( and, if, ...)

.............................. link by relating verbs to nouns, pronouns and noun phrases ( on, behind, between, after, ...)

.............................. name things, they are used to refer to a person, a thing or an abstract idea.

'Mother-in-law' is a ...............................

A .............................. is usually preceded by a determiner and can be counted (it can have either singular or plural form)

.............................. cannot be counted, nor do they have plural form.

.............................. unify things, ideas or people into groups (committee, government, team, ...)

The business of .............................. is to express action or to indicate a condition or state.

.............................. either end in -ING or -ED, they are forms of verbs.

.............................. precede and determine certain qualities of nouns and noun phrases.

collective nouns / compound noun / conjunctions / countable noun / determiners / nouns / participles / prepositions / uncountable nouns / verbs

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a .............................. sentence contains / consists of a single clause whereas a .............................. sentence contains two or more clauses.

a .............................. is used to cut of a sentence at the required length.

a ..............................'s role is to separate different thoughts within sentences.

a .............................. is a pause somewhere between a strong comma and a weak full stop; it is used to join phrases which are related in theme but independent.

What follows a .............................. can take the form of a conclusion, a summary, a list or a quotation; what precedes it is a complete sentence.

a .............................. joins two or more words together while a .............................. keeps them apart.

.............................. are useful for inserting parenthetical statements into sentences.

There are two kinds of ..............................: one to indicate a contraction ( to shorten) and one to indicate possession of something.

apostrophes / colon / dash / dashes / full stop / hyphen / multiple / semi-colon / simple

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Try punctuating

I hate hypocrites like you I find them detestable

If you can possibly do so come if you cannot come write if you haven't the time to write send a telegram

That that is is that that is not is not but that that is not is not that that is nor is that that is that that is not