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Adverb

         n adverb describes or modifies a verb  an ad ective or another adverb but never a noun. It usually answers
        the  uestions of when  where  how  why  under what conditions or to what degree.  dverbs often end in  ly .

        For example   he young girl brought me a very long letter from the teacher and then she quickly disappeared.

        Preposition
          preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to form a phrase modifying another word in the
        sentence.  he prepositional phrase always functions as an ad ective or adverb.

        For  example    he  young  girl  brought  me  a  very  long  letter  from  the  teacher  and then she quickly
        disappeared.

        Conjunction
          con unction  oins words  phrases or clauses and indicates the relationship between the elements  oined.
         oordinating  con unctions  connect  grammatically  e ual  elements:  and   but   or   nor   for   so   yet   etc.
        Subordinating con unctions connect clauses that are not e ual: because  although  while  since  etc.

        For example   he young girl brought me a very long letter from the teacher and then she  uickly disappeared.

        Interjection
         n inter ection is a word used to express emotion. It is often followed by an exclamation mark.

        For example  Oh my god!  he young girl brought me a very long letter from the teacher and then she  uickly
        disappeared.

           ARTICLES

         n article is a word used to modify a noun  which is a person  place  ob ect or idea.  rticles are used before
        nouns to show whether the nouns are general or specific.

           an  and   he  are the three types of  nglish articles.  here are rules to help you decide which one to use
        but first you need to know what type of noun you are using.
         hen you have a single  countable  nglish noun  you must always have an article before it.  e cannot say
        “please pass me pen”  we must say “please pass me the pen” or “please pass me a pen”.

         ncountable nouns don t use  a  or  an .  his is because you can t count them. For example  advice is an
        uncountable noun.  ou can t say “he gave me an advice”  but you can say “he gave me some advice” or “he
        gave me a piece of advice”.
         ou can use  the  to make general things specific.  ou can use  the  with any type of noun be it plural or
        singular  countable or uncountable. “ lease pass me the pen”   ere  the  is used to make that pen specific.


           CONSTRUCTION OF A PARAGRAPH

         aragraphs  are  comprised  sentences  but  not  random  sentences.     paragraph  is  a  group  of  sentences
        organised around a central topic.
         asic paragraph structure usually consists of five sentences: the topic sentence  three supporting sentences
        and a concluding sentence.  ut the secrets to paragraph writing lay in four essential elements  which when
        used correctly  can make a not so good paragraph into a great paragraph.




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