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WHAT IS A SENTENCE?
A sentence is a group of words that makes a complete sense and thought.

HOW MANY KINDS OF SENTENCES ARE THERE?

I. Simple Sentences: A Simple sentences contain only one clause and may be as short as one
word. They have a subject and a predicate, and they may include modiers.

Go!.

Kamal goes.

John eats pizza.

Each of these sentences has the same simple structure. Length doesnt necessarily impact the
structure, although it is often a factor.
II. Interrogative Sentence: The sentence that are used to ask questions are called Interrogative
Sentence or Question

Sentence.

Questions, or interrogative sentences, ask who, what, where, why, which, or how. Beginning a
sentence or independent clause with one of these words is almost always a sure indicator of a direct
question.

What is your name?

When will you come?

Who are you?

Where did you get this?

Why did she leave?

How are you?

III. Imperative Sentence: The sentence which expresses order, command, advice, request,
suggestion

or

instruction

is

calledImperative

Sentence.

Commands, or imperative sentences, make direct requests and prohibitions. They consist of
predicates that are in nitive verbs but have no explicit subjects.

Earn good name

Call the doctor, please

Take rest

Wait a minute

Do not go there

Stop talking

IV. Exclamatory Sentence: The sentence which expresses some strong feeling or emotion such as
contempt,

wonder,

surprise,

sorrow,

joy

etc.

are

called Exclamatory

Sentence.

Exclamations are usually expressions of excitement or any other burst of emotion. They are
similar to commands and interjections, but they can also be complete sentences.

Yes!

No!

How date you!

Hurrah! I have won the contest

Fantastic!

What a beautiful flower

V. Fragments: Fragments are incomplete sentences. Every sentence must have at least one main
clause, which contains an independent subject and verb and expresses a complete thought.

Kamal wants to go. But cant

I went to the concert. Which is why I have a headache.

Although David wants to go, he cant.

SOME IMPORTANT NOTES:

USE OF PUNCTUATION
Punctuation is a set of universally accepted, standardized marks such as periods, commas, and
question marks that help clarify the meaning of a sentence or structural portions of writing.

Marks

Definitions

Period / Fullstop

comma

Question mark

Spanish question marks (open and close)

Exclamation mark

Spanish exclamation marks (open and close)

...

Ellipsis

Colon

Semicolon

Apostrophe

Single quotation marks (open and close)

Double quotation marks (open and close)

Hyphen

En dash

Em dash

Slash

backslash

()

Parentheses (open and close)

[]

Brackets (open and close)

{}

Braces (open and close)

WHAT IS A POSSESSIVE CASE?

In general, possessives require nothing more than an apostrophe and sometimes an additional -s.
For all singular words, add -s to the end. Even if the word ends in -s, -x, or -z, the most common
usage

adds

-s

to

the

ending.

A noune or a pronoun, when it is used to show ownership or possession, authority, kind, origin etc., it
is said to be in the Possessive or Genitive Case.

GENERAL

POSSESSIVES

Boy

Boys

Boys

Boys

Father

Fathers

Girls

Girls

Politics

Politics

Men

Mens

Our

Ours

My

Mine

You

Yours

Jesus

Jesus

1980

The 1980s tech boom

2009

2009s midterm elections

It

Its

Who

Whose

Parents

Parents Day

Presidents

Presidents Day

Valentine

Valentines Day

NOUN
Nouns are the building blocks of sentences. A noun is a word used to represent general classes of
people, places, and things or something a bit more intangible, such as ideas.

What is a noun?
A noun is a word that identifies a name of the person, place, thing, or idea.
COMMON

NOUNS :

People:

Brother,

teacher,

Places:

Town,

school,

Things:

Shoe,

doctor,

gardener.

hospital,

pizza,

yard.

radio,

house.

Ideas: Faith, beauty, truth, goodness.

PRONOUN
A pronoun is a word that replaces either a noun or another pronoun. Pronouns are used to avoid
repeating the same word. Pronouns can also be used in place of a noun that has already been
identified and is understood without repeating it or replacing it.

What is a Pronoun?
Pronoun is a substitution word used in place of the nouns and noun phrases they represent.
Without pronouns: The girl told the girls sister that the girl was going to run away.
With pronouns: The girl told her sister that she was going to run away.

I. Nominative Case
I

We

You

They

He

She

II. Accusative Case

Me

Us

You

Him

Her

Them

III. Instrumental Case

With me

By me

With you

By you

With him

By him

With her

By her

With it

By it

With us

By us

With them

By them

IV. Dative Case

To me

To you

To him

To her

To it

To us

From him

From her

From it

From us

IV. Ablative Case

From me

From you

IV. Genitive Case

My

Our

Your

His

Her

In her

In it

It

Th

V. Locative Case
In me

In you

In him

In us

In

Most popular words

Meaning of get

Meaning of objection

Meaning of ahead

Meaning of pardon

Meaning of once

Meaning of tomorrow

Meaning of delicious

Meaning of seems

Meaning of during

Meaning of hold

Meaning of pull

Meaning of companion

Meaning of concerned

Meaning of reserve

Meaning of spell

Meaning of wet

Meaning of rumour

Meaning of along
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