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Qualitative and Relative Adjectives

According to their meaning and grammatical characteristics, adjectives fall under two classes: qualitative adjectives, and relative adjectives. Qualitative adjectives denote qualities of a substance directly, not through its relation to another substance, as size, shape, colour, physical and mental qualities, qualities of general estimation: little, large, high, soft, hard, warm, white, blue,…

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Substantivized Adjectives

Substantivized adjectives have acquired some or all of the characteristics of the noun, but their adjectival origin is still generally felt. Substantivized adjectives are divided into wholly substantivized and partially substantivized adjectives. Wholly substantivized adjectives have all the characteristics of nouns, namely the plural form, the genitive case; they are associated with articles,…

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Morphological composition of Adjectives

Adjectives are divided into simple, derivative, and compound. Simple Adjectives Simple adjectives are adjectives that have neither prefixes nor suffixes. They are indecomposable: e. g. good, red, black. Derivative Adjectives Derivative adjectives are adjectives that have derivative elements, suffixes or prefixes or both: beautiful, foolish, hopeless, unkind, unimportant. Productive…

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Adjective

The adjective is a word expressing a quality of a substance. The adjective has the following morphological characteristics: Degrees of Comparison Most adjectives have degrees of comparison: the comparative degree and the superlative degree. NOTE: Some adjectives have no degrees of comparison. The comparative degree denotes a higher degree of quality. She is taller than her sister. My box is…

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Do you know Colors in English?

Test your knowledge of colors in English with an interactive card matching game

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Negative Pronouns

Negative Pronouns are used to negate some statements.Most of the indefinite pronouns correspond to negative pronouns: somesomethingsomebody, someoneno, nonenothing, nonenobody, no one, none Some defining pronouns also correspond to negative pronouns: everythingall, everybody, every, eachboth, eithernothingno, none, nobody neither No The negative pronoun no is used only before a noun as its…

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Defining Pronouns

The defining pronouns are: all, each, every, everybody, everyone, everything, either, both, other, another. All All is a generalizing pronoun, it takes a group of things or persons as a whole. All may be used as a subject, predicative, object, and attribute. …when all is said and done… (London) (SUBJECT)He just loved me, that is all. (London) (PREDICATIVE) And Martin forgot all about it.…

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Reciprocal Pronouns

Reciprocal pronouns are the group pronouns each other and one another. They express mutual action or relation. The subject to which they refer must always be in the plural. “I didn’t really know him,” he thought, “and he didn’t know me; but we loved each other.” (Galsworthy)We haven’t set eyes on one another for years. (Priestley) Each other generally implies only two, one another two or more…

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Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite pronouns point out some person or thing indefinitely. The indefinite pronouns are some, any, somebody, anybody, someone, anyone, something, anything, one. The pronouns somebody, anybody, someone, anyone, one have two cases: the common case and the genitive case. Some / Any Some is chiefly used in affirmative sentences while any is used in negative and interrogative sentences and. in…

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Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive pronouns are used to emphasize another noun or pronoun. Reflexive pronouns have the categories of person, number, and gender in the third person singular. 1st person2nd person3rd personSingularmyselfyourself[1]himself, herself, itselfPluralourselvesyourselvesthemselves Function Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence in which they are used, indicating that the…

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Match Numbers 1-10

Match numbers 1-10

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Numbers 1-20

Numbers from 1 to 20 in English. Vocabulary exercises ESL: cardinal numbers from one to twenty.

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Numerals 20-100

Numbers from 20 to 100 in English. Vocabulary exercises ESL: cardinal numbers from one to one hundred.

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Interrogative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns are used in inquiry, to form special questions. They are: who, whose, what, which. The interrogative pronoun who has the category of the case: the nominative case is who, the objective case whom. Use Who refers to human beings: Slipping her hand under his arm, she said: “Who was that?” “He picked up my handkerchief. We talked about pictures.” (Galsworthy) What, when…

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Demonstrative pronouns

The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, such, (the) same. The demonstrative pronouns this and that have two numbers. SingularPluralNearThisTheseFarTheseThose This is used to point at what is nearer in time or space; that points at what is farther away in time or space. He looked him over critically. “Yes, this boy might do,” he thought. (Dreiser) “I like that fellow,” Henry Waterman…

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Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns (who, whose, which, that, as) not only point back to a noun or a pronoun mentioned before but also have conjunctive power. They introduce attributive clauses. The word they refer to is called their antecedent. It may be a noun or a pronoun. Who is used in reference to human beings or animals. Jolyon bit his lips; he who had always hated rows almost welcomed the thought of one…

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Conjunctive pronouns

Conjunctive pronouns point back to some person or thing mentioned before. #pronoun #english #englishonline

Conjunctive pronouns (who, what, whose, which) not only point back to some person or thing mentioned before but also have conjunctive power, introducing subordinate clauses (subject clauses, object clauses, predicative clauses). What June had taken for personal interest was only the impersonal excitement of every Forsyte… (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT CLAUSE)What you want, in fact, is a first-rate man…

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