Definition of a Verb The Oxford Learners’ Dictionary defines a ‘verb’ as “a word or group of words that express an action (such as eat), an event (such as happen) or a state (such as exist)”. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a ‘verb’ is defined as “a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, or experience”. The Collins Dictionary provides a much […]
A pronoun is defined as ‘a word that is used instead of a noun or a noun phrase’, according to the Cambridge Dictionary. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines pronouns as ‘any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or they) in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the […]
Nouns are words we use a lot when we write. They’re names for things like people, places, objects, and ideas. Nouns can do different jobs in a sentence, like being the main thing we’re talking about, the receiver of an action, or even just adding extra information. In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect […]
English is a language that comes from a group of related languages spoken in ancient times by people who came to Britain from parts of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. These people, known as the Anglo-Saxons, settled in the British Isles around 1,500 years ago and their language gradually became the main language in the southern part of Great Britain. […]
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