English grammar is the foundation of effective communication, and understanding its basic rules is essential for beginners.
Some plural nouns can be difficult to spell. There are rules that can help you remember how to spell plural nouns. The rules for regular plural nouns are: Just add an ‘s’ Add an 'es' Drop the ...
Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...
The most well known grammatical feature is [±Plural], which is an empty feature in the lexical morpheme underlying the noun. A syntactic rule copies the polar value of the feature to the empty feature ...
The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...
Benitez-Castro, Miguel-Angel and Thompson, Paul 2015. Shell-nounhood in academic discourse. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 20, Issue. 3, p. 378.
The world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Raymond Murphy's classic reference and practice book for learners of English at intermediate (B1-B2) level. Perfect for self-study, but ...
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Using demonstrative reference words
THIS time, our back-to-the-basics review of English composition brings us to the demonstrative reference words — those handy ...