Welcome to Akademia. For some time now, we have focused on Punctuation Marks in English. In this post titled Parentheses and Brackets – Definitions, Uses with Examples, I would like to focus on the mark parentheses and brackets and show you their various uses. Here we go… Parentheses and Brackets – Definitions, Uses with Examples … Read more
Welcome to the post Question Mark – Definition, Uses and Examples. There are various Punctuation Marks in English that we need to be very familiar with to enhance our writings and put them in proper perspective. The question mark is an important mark that we need to know about. Question Mark – Definition, Uses and … Read more
Hi dear reader, there are some of the punctuation marks in English we are yet to talk about; and one of them is the semicolon. So, this post focuses on the Semicolon – Definitions, Uses with Examples. Semicolon – Definitions, Uses with Examples We will attempt some definitions of the semicolon and consider its various … Read more
In our quest to learn the important punctuation marks we use in English to spice up our writings and make sense to our readers, we shall consider another interesting punctuation mark in this post tagged, Slash – Definition, Uses with Examples. Slash – Definition, Uses with Examples Let us begin by defining this mark and … Read more
Ellipsis is a device we use from time to time in our utterances or writings. This post Ellipsis in English (Definition, Types, Uses and Examples) focuses on this commonly used devices. Shakespeare once wrote, ‘When sorrows come, they come…in battalions’. The full realisation of that quotation is this: ‘When sorrows come, they come not single … Read more
Glad to know you are reading this right now. I am sure you really want to know types of nouns with examples. We cannot talk about types of nouns if we do not first talk about the concept of a noun itself. I have put together a post on what a noun is. It would … Read more
Hello there! If you take a look at my posts lately, they have been around issues of questions in English. I have discussed Wh Questions, Types of Questions in English, Tag Questions and now following up on Tag Questions, I wish to show you How to Answer Tag Questions with Examples. Many users of English … Read more
Welcome here again! Allow me to present to you this interesting post titled, Tag Questions in English: Formation, Rules and Examples. There are many Types of Questions in English and I have a post dedicated to that which you might want to check out. Tag Question is one of them. Let us look at its … Read more
Hi there! If you can remember very well, some posts on Akademia have addressed various ‘types of…’ posts. We have looked at types of clauses, types of sentences, phobia types, types of verbs, types of nouns, morpheme types, types of adverbs, etc. But in this post, we want to examine yet another ‘types of post’ … Read more
Hello there! I am positive that you are learning well on this platform. It is natural for us to ask questions as humans. Do you know that questions in English have various forms of structure? All these forms come under interrogative sentence. (See Types of Sentences According to Function). This post titled Wh Questions with … Read more