What Is a Sentence? A sentence consists of at least one main clause and can include further related subordinate clauses to form a group of words that conveys a completed thought or idea. What is a clause? To understand what constitutes a sentence, we must first understand the idea of a clause. There are two […]
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What Is a Word? Words are the fundamental building blocks for languages. They represent the smallest unit of speech to have some conventional agreed meaning among a group of speakers of a language and to which other grammatical rules of the language can be applied. This is a practical definition, as linguists do not have
What Is Grammar? Grammar describes where we put words in a sentence (the word order) and what we do to those words so that they convey meaning accurately. How does word order work? For instance – and let’s take a stupid example to illustrate – let’s say we have the words ‘dog’ ‘fish’ and ‘eat.’
The Romans named the days of the week after the five known planets of the time (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the sun and the moon.
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Listen to phrases for asking about brothers, sisters and other family in French.
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In this lesson, we learn ten words for extended family members in French.
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In this lesson, we learn ten words for close family members in French.
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Listen to phrases for introducing people in French.
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Listen to ten ways to ask someone how they are and a selection of responses in French.
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In this lesson, we learn ten expressions for saying hello and goodbye in French.
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