Online English Language Learning

Homophones

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Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different spellings and meanings.
For example:
bee and be
meat and meet
aunt and ant
know and no
won and one

Antecedents of Pronouns

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An antecedent is the word or words to which a pronoun refers.
Example:
Sarah said that she would go.
She is the pronoun.
Sarah is the antecedent.

Preposition

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Definition: A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

Function or "Job": links a noun to another word

Example Words: to, at, after, on, but

Example Sentences: We went to school on Monday.

Conjunction

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Definition: A conjunction (abbreviated or ) is a part of speech that connects two words, phrases or clauses together. This definition may overlap with that of other parts of speech, so what constitutes a "conjunction" should be defined for each language.

Function or "Job": joins clauses or sentences or words

Example Words: and, but, when

Example Sentences: I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.

Interjection

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Definition: An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion; An interruption; something interjected

Function or "Job": short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence

Example Words: oh!, ouch!, hi!, well

Example Sentences: Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

Pronoun

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Definition: Pronouns are words that refer to objects in the text or situation in which they are uttered. In this course we mainly consider the personal pronouns he, she and it.

Function or "Job": replaces a noun

Example Words: I, you, he, she, some

Example Sentences: John is American. He is beautiful.

Adverb

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Definition: A word (one of the eight parts of speech) used to modify (ie, describe or limit) a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An adverb indicates time (eg, now, then, today), place (eg, here, there, inside), manner (eg, animatedly, clearly, slowly), or degree (eg, extremely, somewhat, only).

Function or "Job": describes a verb, adjective or adverb

Example Words: quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really

Example Sentences: My cat eats quickly. When she is very hungry, she eats really quickly.

Adjective

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Definition: An adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent.

Function or "Job": describes a noun

Example Words: a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting

Example Sentences: My cat is small. I like small cats.

Noun

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Definition: Noun is a person, place, thing, idea or quantity. Nouns are categorized as proper or common. Proper nouns are a specific person, place, or thing, while a common noun is any other noun.

function or "job": thing or person

example words: pen, dog, work, music, town, California, teacher, John

example sentences: This is my cat. He lives in my house. We live in Dubai.

Verb

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Definition: A verb, deriving from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that conveys action (bring, read, walk, run, murder), or a state of being (exist, stand). In most languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood and voice.

function or "job" : action or state

example words: (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must

example sentences: learn-online-english-language.blogspot.com is a blog. I like this.

The English Alphabets

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There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
There are 5 vowels: A, E, I, O and U. The rest of the letters are consonants.
Practise reading the letters out loud:

Capital letters (upper case letters):
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Small letters (lower case letters):
a b c d e f g h i
j k l m n o p q r
s t u v w x yz