Grammar Points Summary
Grammar Point Rules and Explanations
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Count nouns
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Anything that can be counted using a, an, one, and numbers such as one, two, three and so on is a count noun.
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Noncount Nouns
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The things which are a few, very small and too difficult to count alone, such as gases, diseases and abstract are noncount nouns.
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Noncount Nouns
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Satisfaction is a noncount noun. It cannot be satisfaction or
a satisfaction or one satisfaction. Remember the song of Rolling Stones ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’?
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Misconception about nouns
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The noncount nouns are often misunderstood by non-native speakers. Information, not informations; hair, not hairs; air, not airs,
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Article for unique nouns
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Unique things such as sun, moon, universe, air, sky, ground, shade and world are followed by ‘the’.
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Article for money
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Who doesn’t like money? Article ‘the’ also like to follow a country's currency or money like the dollar, the yen and so on.
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Article for language
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Well, for language, there is zero article. I speak German. She speaks English.
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Adjective Clauses with Prepositions
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Consider this sentence: That is the boy who stole my purse yesterday.
In this sentence, the underlined part is adjective clause and the second part, which is bold one, is preposition clause.
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Adjective Clauses with Where
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The boy who stole my purse is my neighbor. In this sentence, the bold part is adjective clause.
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Using When in Adjective Clauses
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‘1947 was the year, when India was partitioned into India and Pakistan’ is an example of adjective clause about date or time. We can also say this as ‘1947 was the year India was partitioned into …
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Adjective clauses with a pronoun
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Such clauses that describe a subject pronoun is called adjective clause. Example: The boy who stole my purse is my neighbor.
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Stative verb
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Strangely, some verbs are no action, and they are called stative verb. They occurred by themselves. They are not performed, like ‘this room smells bad’, ‘you feel sad’ and so on. So, emotions, thoughts and senses are stative verbs.
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