Lesson

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.’