Lexi Cogs

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 […]

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

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

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,

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

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.’