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What Is a Preposition?

What Is a Preposition? A preposition tells you where something is in relation to something else or when something happened. In terms of expressing where something is, prepositions can relay a static location or movement. For example, ‘in’ in the sentence, “London is in the United Kingdom,” is an example of a preposition expressing a

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What Is a Pronoun?

What Is a Pronoun? To avoid repetition, we often replace nouns in sentences with pronouns. Therefore, the following saying holds true: “Where there’s no noun, there’s a pronoun.” For example, it would be laborious if we had to say, “The dog is eating the food. The food belongs to the dog. The dog likes the

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What Is an Adverb?

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?

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

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What Is an Adjective?

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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