What Is an Adverb? Adverbs provide more information about a verb, an adjective or another adverb that can relate to manner, degree or place. Let’s take a look at adverbs using some examples. Adverbs and Verbs Just as an adjective provides more information about a noun, an adverb tells us more about how a verb […]
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What Is a Verb? Verbs refer to actions or states. For example, ‘to eat,’ ‘to sing ‘ and ‘to play’ are all verbs describing actions. The verbs ‘to be,’ ‘to seem’ and ‘to resemble’ are all verbs that refer to states. What Is the Infinitive? All verbs have an infinitive form, which means it is
In this lesson, we learn how the numbers from 21 to 60 work in French with a video to learn pronunciation, a word refresher tool to commit to memory and a quick quiz.
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Learn the numbers eleven to twenty in French, with a video to learn pronunciation, a word refresher tool to commit to memory and a quick quiz.
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Learn the numbers one to ten in French, with a video to learn pronunciation, a word refresher tool to commit to memory and a quick quiz.
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How Do You Know If You’re Making Progress Learning a Foreign Language? This can be achieved by creating your own linguistic progress chart, or using a standard progress chart, such as that provided by the Council of Europe. This is called the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, or CEFR. Whichever type of progress
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What Is an Adjective? Adjectives are describing words. They tell us more descriptive information about a noun, such as the word ‘red’ in ‘a red car.’ Adjectives may be attributive (placed before the noun) or predicative (coming after the noun). Attributive Predicative The small house The house is small The cold room The room is
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What Is a Determiner? A determiner is a type of word that goes directly in front of a noun to provide more contextual information about it. It can tell you something about the location of the noun in relation to the speaker, something about its amount, or information about ownership. The words ‘a’, ‘an’ and
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What Is an Article? An article is used to determine whether a noun in a sentence is either known to the audience (the definite article) or non-specific and general (the indefinite article). For example, when we say, “The dog is in the kitchen,” we are making the assumption that the listener knows which dog we
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What Is a Noun? A noun is a word that gives a name to either an object, person or place (such as a ‘table,’ ‘queen’ or ‘London’) or an idea or concept (such as ‘love’). What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun? In the examples above, one of the nouns,
