What is Direct Speech? Consider the following sentence: Shyam said: ‘A fine lesson will be taught to the wicked John.’ In Direct speech: The given sentence is indirect speech. Here the exact words of the speaker have been put within quotation marks. …

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time. Tenses generally express time relative to the moment of speaking. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs. When you use a verb, you have to choose …

Nouns are naming words. Everything we see or talk about is a noun. If you remember your school days, then you should be able to recall the definition of nouns that were taught to us: nouns are the names of …

Prepositions are the words that link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Example: The book is on the table. A prepositional phrase …

Conjunctions (a part of speech) are words used to link words, phrases, and clauses. For example, I ate the pizza and the pasta. In this case, ‘and’ is a conjunction that joins two parts of the sentence. There are three types …

Verbal are words that express action in a general sense, without limiting the action to any time, or asserting it to any subject. They basically refer to words that are based on a verb but are not used as a …

Usage of ‘that’ and ‘which’ often causes confusion. Why so? Go through the rule that differentiates the two: That: That should be used to introduce a restrictive clause. Which: Which should be used to introduce a non-restrictive or parenthetical clause? Easy-peas right? …

An infinitive will almost always begin with ‘to’ followed by the simple form of the verb as: To + Verb = Infinitive Infinitives can be used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. The simple trick in recognizing infinitives is to look …

While both the words are used for comparison, the difference between the two is a small one. The basic bone of contention for the usage of these two words is because of the fact that ‘like’ is a preposition and ‘as’ is …

Subject: The subject is the person or a thing who or which carries out the action. A sentence cannot exist without the subject. Subjects are nouns or pronouns in a sentence. Example: The teacher is teaching the students. In this sentence, …

Before we actually delve into indefinite pronouns, let us solve a mini-exercise. Read the following sentences and identify the correct word from the two options provided: Everybody loves/loves Richard. Everyone is/are happy. Everyone brought his/their phone. Sentence 1: In the …

Pronouns are words used in place of a noun or another pronoun, in order to make the sentence less repetitive. Example: Seema performs every year in the function. This year she will dance. Types of Pronouns: 1. Singular & Plural Pronouns:   …

Parts of Speech: There are eight parts of speech. Each part of speech explains how the word is used. The same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The different parts of …

1. You don’t need to understand everything: Well, different people have different reading styles and most of them don’t get everything they read. Reading speed and comprehension levels may vary but as long as you understand what you read, you …

A simple subject-verb agreement definition implies that the subject of the sentence and the verb of the sentence must be in agreement in number. Let’s take an example to understand this concept. Example 1: The dog is playing with his …

Clauses: A clause is a part of the sentence or an independent sentence, which contains a verb in it. For example: When soldiers go marching in. Because he laughed at her. Types of Clauses: 1. Main Clause: the main clause is …

An interjection is one or more words or a phrase that comes at the beginning of a sentence and generally expresses emotions. Interjections such as short exclamations – Oh!, Um, or Ah!  have no real grammatical value but we use them quite often, usually …

Nouns are naming words. Everything we see or talk about is a noun. If you remember your school days, then you should be able to recall the definition of nouns that were taught to us: nouns are the names of …