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Many people grapple with language use or usage and are at a loss on how to use certain words in English. One of such words is the word: only. How and When to Use ‘Only’ in a Sentence is put together to deal with this challenge! The Concept of Use and Usage Take note that … Read more
The British statesman and writer, Lord Chesterfield in Letters to His Son wrote, “There is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly, Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are”. That was an interesting play on the relative pronouns ‘whom’ and ‘who’ there by Lord Chesterfield. It is imperative … Read more
Welcome to this page! I am sure you are learning a lot under our Common Errors Category. I would like to show you by this post titled, Avoid vs Afford and Avoid vs Evade: Any Difference?, words that most users of English confuse due to lack of proper understanding on what they mean and how … Read more
Hello dear reader, I want you to know that there are many sides to the English sentence that we need to explore. That is why here, we want to examine Patterns of the English Simple Sentence. We have looked at the simple sentence and its various definitions, we have also examined types of sentences from … Read more
Hello friend! I am sure you have learned quite a lot on Akademia. I want to introduce to you a specific type of sentence in English, which is about the most common type and that is why I have titled this post: The Simple Sentence: Definitions and Constituents. Classifications of English Sentences English sentences have … Read more
In the English Rankscale, the Sentence is the largest grammatical unit and, by definition, it refers to a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with any of these three punctuation marks: the period or full stop, the exclamation mark and the question mark. This post, Types of Sentences According to … Read more
The Sentence is the largest grammatical unit in the English Rankscale and it refers to a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with any of these three punctuation marks: the period or full stop, the exclamation mark and the question mark. This post, Types of Sentences According to Structure with … Read more
Welcome to class! Today’s discussion promises to be educative and interesting. If you are familiar with my posts, you will recall that I have made references to the English Rankscale which has the clause as one of its members. This post, Syntactic Elements of the Clause Structure in English, focuses, at a micro level, on … Read more
There will always be confusion in many people’s mind as far as the use of certain words in English is concerned. The reason is not far-fetched. Some words share many linguistic features. Some are homonymous, some are homographic while others homophonic. One of the pairs that many cannot identify and differentiate easily is the pair: … Read more
The verbal group is another interesting group in the English Language. Everything about the verbal group rests solely on the versatile Part of Speech, the Verb. The post, The English Verbal Group (Types with Examples) explains the different structures of the verbal group and the various types of verbs that exist in English. What is … Read more