Words

Words can be divided into two types: content words that carry the meaning (main verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs) and function words that establish grammatical relationships (articles, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and pronouns). Words are at the smallest grammatical level.

Roles Nouns Play

Information Roles Agentive Role = the doer of the action (with transitive and intransitive verbs) Affected Role = someone or something affected by the action (with intransitive verbs) Identified Role = someone or something identified through the subject predictive...

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Verb Forms and Tenses

Using the principal parts of a verb listed in a dictionary, you can construct all the forms of the verb which then can be used to decide which tense (or other conjugation) is appropriate.

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