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What is a Gerund? How Can a Noun be Derived from a Verb?
A gerund is a type of verbal that has the form of a verb but acts as a noun. In fact, because a gerund looks identical to the present participle some grammarians refer to it as the gerund-participle. This is because both the gerund and...
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What is a Subject Complement: Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjective
A subject complement is a word or phrase that follows a linking verb (called the copula) to connect the predicate to the subject. There are two types of subject complements: the predicate nominative which renames the subject and the...
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The Participial Phrase and the Gerund Phrase: How to Tell Them Apart
In this lesson, we'll learn about the participial phrase and the gerund phrase. The participial functions as an adjective and the gerund functions as a noun. Participles and gerunds are types of verbals. A verbal is a verb form that can...
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Apostrophes to Show Possession: Possessives
Also, you’ll have a chance to show what you learned with a bonus quiz.
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Syntactic Properties of Phrasal Verbs | Lesson 1 of 3
In today’s lesson, we’ll look at phrasal verbs from a grammatical perspective. You’ll learn about the syntactic features of phrasal verbs, particles as adverbs or prepositions, and the difference between phrasal verbs,...
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Past Real Conditional: Let's Talk About the Past
What happens if you want to express past real life situations? What if you want to express a habit that happened in the past or things that were true in the past? These are things or events that used to happen but do not happen any more....
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Double Words: Had Had--Past Perfect Tense
Have you ever encountered the words “had had” in a sentence and thought you were seeing double? Well, rest assured that your eyesight is all right and what you were seeing was a perfectly correct grammatical construction called the past...
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Causative Verbs ~ Advanced English Grammar Lesson
Today, you’ll learn how we define true causative verbs The causative verb structure of the sentence The Causative verb structure of the sentence. (Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative) Using modals with the causative structure The...
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ADVANCED LESSON: How to Reduce the Adjective Clause: Relative Clause Reduction
An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Why would you want or need to reduce the...
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ADVANCED LESSON PART 2: How to Reduce the Adverb Clause
In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...
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INFINITIVES: Everything You Need To Know
An infinitive is a verb that is not bound by time. An infinitive is a base verb, or a verb in its basic form. This is called the bare infinitive. But when you think of the infinitive you probably think of the verb form called the full...
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Indefinite Pronoun None: None Is or None Are | Subject-Verb Agreement
In this lesson, we review the controversial pronoun NONE. Some believe that NONE is always singular and takes a singular verb, but this is not always the case. Examples are given.
Britlish
The Excited Kitchen
A fun animated English lesson for students of all ages from kids to adults to help develop the vocabulary of the kitchen. This video has blue subtitles in IPA symbols to help with learing the British IPA chart at the bottom of the...
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Noun Clauses: Advanced English Grammar | A Noun Clause is a Part of Speech Classed as a Noun
A subordinate or dependent clause that acts as a noun is called a noun (or substantive) clause. When a simple noun is not enough to represent a person, place, thing, or idea, we use a noun clause.
A noun clause usually begins with...
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Adjective Clauses: An Adjective Clause is a Part of Speech Classed as an Adjective
An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Adjective clauses will always begin with...
Englishing
Past Perfect Simple
This video will teach you the Past Perfect Simple by giving you examples using also the Present Perfect and Past Simple. This video will teach you how to use them by giving easy example. This lesson is addressed to the beginner student...
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Lesson on CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS (Both...and, either...or, neither...nor)
This video is about correlative conjunctions. Conjunctions are joiners, words that connect parts of a sentence. There are three types: coordinating, subordinating and correlative. In this mini lesson Marc will talk about the correlative...
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Adverbs Of Frequency | English Grammar Lesson
Let's explore common adverbs of frequency. This English grammar lesson will help you to accurately talk about what you do in your day-to-day life. Do let me know in the comments section if you have any questions about this, and feel free...
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Verb Mood: Indicative, Imperative, and Subjunctive | Properties of Verbs
Mood is a property of verbs that shows the mood, or attitude, of the speaker. Mood is used to denote whether the speaker is stating or asserting a fact, asking a question, expressing a condition, or giving a command. In today's lesson,...
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Non-Defining Relative Clauses - English Grammar Explained
What are non-defining relative clauses? In this lesson, the English grammar is explained along with examples.
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Commonly Mispronounced Words Containing Silent Letters #Spon
How many of these commonly used English words (containing silent letters) do you mispronounce? Silent letters have caught us all out at some point in our language learning journey. There aren't really any helpful rules to follow, so the...
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Underwear | English Vocabulary
Learn different words for types of male and female underwear! This is vocabulary that you don't normally learn in a classroom, but it can be very useful if you have to go shopping in an English-speaking country. Vocabulary list:...
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What are Linking Verbs? | Auxiliary Verbs
A linking verb is a type of auxiliary verb that does not show any action. It simply links, or joins, the subject of a sentence to the subject complement (a word that identifies or describes the subject). The forms of the verbs to be, to...