WHICH WORD? 'Turn, become, get, grow, go'

The words become, go, grow, turn, come and get can all be used to talk about change. They have similar meanings. There are differences too. Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word indicating change. 1. You are ……………….. younger and younger. a) stayingb) becomingc) changing 2. Please ………………… ready now. a) becomeb) getc) turn 3. It was ………………….. very dark. a) becomingb) gettingc) turning 4. What do you have to do to …………………........

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Comparatives and Superlatives

Comparatives and superlatives Complete the following sentences using an appropriate comparative or superlative form. 1. He is ………………. his father than his mother. a) more likeb) likerc) Either could be used here 2. He is ………………….. than stupid. a) more lazyb) lazierc) Either could be used here 3. That is ……………….. of you. a) kindestb) most kindc) Either could be used here 4. Could you talk …………………..? a) quietlierb) more quietlyc) Either......

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Adjective phrase

Adjective phrase A word group that has an adjective as its head is called an adjective phrase. Note that the adjective in this phrase may be accompanied by other words such as determiners, modifiers etc. Adjective phrases can go before a noun (attributive position). They can also go after a linking verb like be (predicative position). He was wearing a dark brown suit. (Here the adjective phrase ‘a dark brown’ modifies......

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GENERAL AND SPECIFIC DETERMINERS

General and specific determiners Determiners are words which come at the beginning of the noun phrase. They tell us whether the noun phrase is specific or general. Determiners are either specific or general Specific determiners: The specific determiners are: the definite article: the possessives: my, your, his, her, its; our, their, whose demonstratives: this, that, these, those interrogatives: which We......

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The Clause Add caption You've met clauses, too, but let's take a closer look at four important types of clause: Independent and Main ClausesAn independent clause stands alone as a sentence, e.g. 'I ate the jelly'. The central clause in a longer sentence is called a main clause. There are two main clauses (in bold) in this sentence:                          ......

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The Morpheme

The Morpheme  A morpheme can be either a root word or a meaningful part of a word (i.e. an affix such as a prefix or suffix). An individual morpheme will always be, if not the whole word, then the smallest meaningful part of a word. Morphemes are labelled as free morphemes when they are whole words or bound morphemes when they exist only as parts of longer......

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Clauses

ClausesClauses consist of two or more phrases and, like phrases, form coherent units of meaning. A clause tells about action or state (i.e. what a thing is doing or being, e.g. 'He grabbed a brick'; 'She felt ill'. Typically, a clause is composed of a noun phrase (acting as subject) and a verb phrase. If something is acted upon by the subject, it fills the grammatical object position. The......

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Words, Phrases and Clauses

Words, Phrases and ClausesThese are the three central grammatical structures which make up all sentences. A phrase consists of one or more words and is a part of a sentence. Whilst technically a phrase can be a single word, it's easier to think of multi-word phrases as being an 'extended word'. We might have about half a million individual words in our language but we still don't have enough to cover every eventuality.......

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