Formation of Possessive Case in English with Examples
When a noun or pronoun shows possession, it is said to be in the Possessive case or genitive case. This is true most of the time, but not always. Sometimes we use possessive cases to...
Category: ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Cases of Noun: Nominative, Accusative and Possessive
In modern English, there are three cases of nouns; nominative, objective or accusative, and possessive case. Some people also consider dative and vocative cases of nouns in English grammar, but they are obsolete. Nominative...
Gender in English – Masculine, Feminine, Common & Neuter
The word ‘gender’ in English grammar has been derived from the Latin ‘genus’ which means ‘kind’ or ‘sort’. Therefore, in English grammar, we use gender as a noun that denotes either the male or...
Rules of Singular and Plural Nouns with Examples
There are different ways to classify nouns, and one of them is numbers. So, based on numbers, we classify nouns as – singular and plural. A noun is singular if it refers to one...
Kinds of Nouns | Proper, Common, Abstract, Collective
There are four kinds of nouns in English; Proper noun, Common noun, Abstract noun, and Collective noun. Apart from the above, we can also classify them as: Abstract and Concrete nouns Countable and Uncountable...
Subject and Predicate – Difference and Examples
In every sentence, we must have a person or thing to speak about and we must say or tell something about it. Thus, a sentence has two parts: subject and predicate. The subject is the first part...
PARTS OF SPEECH IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
In the English language, we place words in different classes, called parts of speech. This post “Parts of Speech in English Grammar” will introduce kids to various classes of parts of speech. So, let’s...
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PHRASE AND THE CLAUSE
We use groups of words to express our thoughts and feelings. These groups are of three types – a sentence, a phrase, and a clause. We already learned that a sentence is a group...
Types of Sentences in English Grammar with Examples
Primarily there are four types of sentences – assertive or declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. Before we proceed further with types of sentences and their usages, let us understand what is a sentence....
