Discover essential English grammar rules for beginners. Learn about sentence structure, parts of speech, tenses, and more to ...

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 ...

Apostrophes are those little floating comma shapes that denote contractions and possessives, and that sometimes even make ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

THIS time, our back-to-the-basics review of English composition brings us to the demonstrative reference words — those handy ...