Hi guys, how are you? Tonight I'm going to give you some tips to identify the part of speech of different words. Learners get confused about how a particular word can be placed in a sentence just because their name they don't know. Now, lets look below:
1. All words ending with 'tion'/sion/ssion/cy/ment/ness/ty etc are nouns.
Ex: meditation, decision, permission, illiteracy, management, kindness, honesty &c
Exception: station, fragment etc. are verbs and their past form is 'stationed' and 'fragmented' &c
2. Words ending with 'ous', 'ant' etc are usually adjectives. Ex: ferocious, avaricious, famous etc. Again, hesitant, mendicant, pendant, reluctant etc.
3. To make verbs into nouns, drop (a) 'de' and add 'sion. Ex: decide>decision, deride> derision
(b) 'ge' and add ment. Ex: manage> management, arrange> arrangement etc
(c) 't' and add ssion. Ex: admit > admission, permit > permission, remit > remission
(d) 'te' and add tion. Ex: meditate > meditation, hesitate > hesitation, oscilate > oscilation
That's all for now friends. Feel free to ask questions. Good night and sweet dreams.
Monday, May 29, 2017
Friday, May 26, 2017
Hi guys, how r u? I's away for a while. However, I'm back again. Well, we've talked about a good number of grammar items in the meantime. Today I'm going to give you some tips to easily remember some verbs with some formula to change their forms. Look below:
a. Just drop an 'e' and add 'd/t' with the following verbs to change them into past and past participle forms.
bleed, feed, sleep, flee, weep, keep, meet, creep, (=bled, fed, slept, fled, wept, kept, met, crept...)
b. Replace 'i' with 'a' for past and 'u' for past participle.
ring, sing, run, swim, sink, shrink, spring, drink, begin (rang/rung, sang/sung ........)
c. Add 'ought' or 'aught' after the first consonant of the following verbs to change their forms.
bring, catch, buy, seek, teach, think, (-brought, caught, bought, sought, taught, thought...)
d. Replace 'd' by 't'.
bend, send, lend, spend, rend, build, dream, deal (bent, sent, lent, spent, rent,.......)
e. Replace 'y' by 'id'.
lay, pay, say, (laid, paid, said. . . . . . .)
f. No change needed.
bid, bet, burst, cast, cost, cut, hit, hurt, let, put, quit, read, spread, thrust, broadcast, telecast, forecast
N.B.: Many students feel very disturbed to keep these verbs and their derivatives in mind. They may find it helpful to easily remember the above verb forms.
Anyway, that's all for now. Good night and sweet dreams. Bye.
a. Just drop an 'e' and add 'd/t' with the following verbs to change them into past and past participle forms.
bleed, feed, sleep, flee, weep, keep, meet, creep, (=bled, fed, slept, fled, wept, kept, met, crept...)
b. Replace 'i' with 'a' for past and 'u' for past participle.
ring, sing, run, swim, sink, shrink, spring, drink, begin (rang/rung, sang/sung ........)
c. Add 'ought' or 'aught' after the first consonant of the following verbs to change their forms.
bring, catch, buy, seek, teach, think, (-brought, caught, bought, sought, taught, thought...)
d. Replace 'd' by 't'.
bend, send, lend, spend, rend, build, dream, deal (bent, sent, lent, spent, rent,.......)
e. Replace 'y' by 'id'.
lay, pay, say, (laid, paid, said. . . . . . .)
f. No change needed.
bid, bet, burst, cast, cost, cut, hit, hurt, let, put, quit, read, spread, thrust, broadcast, telecast, forecast
N.B.: Many students feel very disturbed to keep these verbs and their derivatives in mind. They may find it helpful to easily remember the above verb forms.
Anyway, that's all for now. Good night and sweet dreams. Bye.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Hi friends! Good evening. I'm back again. We've already discussed a good number of grammar items which, I hope, may help young learners. Tonight, let's discuss how complex/compound sentences (statements) can be changed into simple ones. Look below:
Complex/Compound Simple
I am so tired that I cannot walk any more.> I am too tired to walk any more.
You are so idle that you cannot pass. > You are too idle to pass.
He is so rich that he can buy a plane. > He is rich enough to buy a plane.
He is so funny that he made us all laugh. > He funny enough to make us all laugh.
Note: Observe the difference between a negative and an affirmative verb (action) i,e, cannot walk and can buy. Also note that the connective THAT has been omitted in the simple statement.
Though he was hard-working, he failed. > In spite of being hard-working, he failed.
Although he started first, he finished last. > In spite of starting first, he finished last.
Note: (Al)though > In spite of. and the Subject of the first part is omitted. Every other thing remains the same.
He ate his breakfast and sat to study. > Eating/Having eaten his breakfast, he sat to study.
He went home and saw his mother ill. > Going/Having gone home, he saw his mother ill.
Do it and you'll face the consequence. > By doing it, you'll face the consequence.
Unless you do it, you'll be punished. > Without doing it, you'll be punished.
Do it or you'll die. > Without doing it, you'll die.
Friends, do all these seem very difficult? Please take the trouble to ask questions. That's all for now. Good night and sweet dreams.
Complex/Compound Simple
I am so tired that I cannot walk any more.> I am too tired to walk any more.
You are so idle that you cannot pass. > You are too idle to pass.
He is so rich that he can buy a plane. > He is rich enough to buy a plane.
He is so funny that he made us all laugh. > He funny enough to make us all laugh.
Note: Observe the difference between a negative and an affirmative verb (action) i,e, cannot walk and can buy. Also note that the connective THAT has been omitted in the simple statement.
Though he was hard-working, he failed. > In spite of being hard-working, he failed.
Although he started first, he finished last. > In spite of starting first, he finished last.
Note: (Al)though > In spite of. and the Subject of the first part is omitted. Every other thing remains the same.
He ate his breakfast and sat to study. > Eating/Having eaten his breakfast, he sat to study.
He went home and saw his mother ill. > Going/Having gone home, he saw his mother ill.
Do it and you'll face the consequence. > By doing it, you'll face the consequence.
Unless you do it, you'll be punished. > Without doing it, you'll be punished.
Do it or you'll die. > Without doing it, you'll die.
Friends, do all these seem very difficult? Please take the trouble to ask questions. That's all for now. Good night and sweet dreams.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Hi guys, how are you? Well, last night we talked about the present and past participle forms of verbs using them as nouns and adjectives. Now, as I said, let's see more uses of those verb forms in different contexts. Observe the following passage carefully:
I became ispired by my English teacher to master this language. A dedicated teacher that he was, he always taught us how to write different kinds of sentences bearing more or less the same meaning. Thus, we learnt transforming one kind of sentence into another. He used to set us translating big passages from even Sharatchandra Chatterjee's novels. He said, 'Writing makes a man perfect. Listening to news casting in English helps correcting pronunciation.' He made me deeply interested in reading Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.
Now observe that the words in bold italics have been derived from the base form of the verbs inspire, dedicate, bear, mean, transform, translate, write, listen, cast and read. They are either present or past participle form of these verbs. Can't you understand their meaning and function? I hope you can. If not, don't hesitate to ask me questions. Just remember that ing forms may be either noun (subject, object or complement) or adjective (modifying a noun/pronoun) but the past participle form is always adjective.
Note: Remember that only verbs and prepositions have objects. For example:A. I like reading novels. B. I am fond of reading novels. C. He is meditating. In A, 'reading' is object to verb like; but in B, 'reading' is object to the preposition of. And in C, 'meditating' is complement to the verb is.
That's all for now guys. Good night and sweet dreams.
I became ispired by my English teacher to master this language. A dedicated teacher that he was, he always taught us how to write different kinds of sentences bearing more or less the same meaning. Thus, we learnt transforming one kind of sentence into another. He used to set us translating big passages from even Sharatchandra Chatterjee's novels. He said, 'Writing makes a man perfect. Listening to news casting in English helps correcting pronunciation.' He made me deeply interested in reading Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.
Now observe that the words in bold italics have been derived from the base form of the verbs inspire, dedicate, bear, mean, transform, translate, write, listen, cast and read. They are either present or past participle form of these verbs. Can't you understand their meaning and function? I hope you can. If not, don't hesitate to ask me questions. Just remember that ing forms may be either noun (subject, object or complement) or adjective (modifying a noun/pronoun) but the past participle form is always adjective.
Note: Remember that only verbs and prepositions have objects. For example:A. I like reading novels. B. I am fond of reading novels. C. He is meditating. In A, 'reading' is object to verb like; but in B, 'reading' is object to the preposition of. And in C, 'meditating' is complement to the verb is.
That's all for now guys. Good night and sweet dreams.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Hi guys. good evening. I hope you're all ok and doing fine. We've already discussed a good number of grammar items. Now let's talk about the uses of 'non-finite' verbs. You know verbs are mainly of two kinds: finite and non-finite. Finite verbs are tense-based and are used as such. But non-finite verbs have nothing to do with tenses. Look below and try to understand the contexts of their uses.
Going uphill was very difficult. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Carefully note that both going and rolling have been derived from the verbs go and roll. But their use here is different. Going (=go+ing) is now a noun, subject to the verb is but rolling (=roll+ing) is an adjective, modifying stone.
Note: When the ing form of a verb acts as a noun, it's gerund; but when it acts as an adjective, it's a participle, though they look the same. These are present participles and such participles are called 'participial adjectives'.
Now look at another kind of participle. Look below:
We felt insulted at his behavior. A burnt child dreads the fire.
Here, insulted (past participle of the verb insult) and burnt (past participle of the verb burn) are both acting as adjectives. These are also called participial adjectives.
This is all for now guys. We'll discuss more uses of these two kinds of non-finite verbs next time. Feel free to ask any question. Good night and sweet dreams.
Going uphill was very difficult. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Carefully note that both going and rolling have been derived from the verbs go and roll. But their use here is different. Going (=go+ing) is now a noun, subject to the verb is but rolling (=roll+ing) is an adjective, modifying stone.
Note: When the ing form of a verb acts as a noun, it's gerund; but when it acts as an adjective, it's a participle, though they look the same. These are present participles and such participles are called 'participial adjectives'.
Now look at another kind of participle. Look below:
We felt insulted at his behavior. A burnt child dreads the fire.
Here, insulted (past participle of the verb insult) and burnt (past participle of the verb burn) are both acting as adjectives. These are also called participial adjectives.
This is all for now guys. We'll discuss more uses of these two kinds of non-finite verbs next time. Feel free to ask any question. Good night and sweet dreams.
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