The Differences Between Direct and Indirect Objects Direct Objects Let’s first find out what an object is because that’s essential if you want to know what direct and indirect objects are. An object is the part of the sentence that gives meaning to the subject’s action of the verb. Let’s look at a sentence to help…

What Is a Compound Subject? So what is a compound subject? It’s a subject made up of two or more simple subjects. Instead of just Ashley as a subject, a compound subject might be Ashley and Fred. A compound sentence usually includes words to link the simple subjects together, such as and, or, and nor. Let’s make this even easier with some examples! Compound Subjects Examples…

What is the Simple Subject? The “simple subject” is the one word in a sentence that is the subject of the verb. It is the thing that is doing the verb. While in the above sentence, “The tiny kitten” is the complete subject, “kitten” is the simple subject. The kitten is meowing. Simple subjects tend to have modifiers…

When a phrase appears in a sentence and there is no surety of what it may be referring to, there are high chances of it being a dangling modifier. The phrase that has nothing to modify in a sentence dangles without any function in that sentence hence the name dangling modifier. Mostly, dangling modifiers appear in nouns that are…

To understand the subjunctive mood within English grammar, we have to understand the different moods that the language affords us. A mood is a verb form that indicates the writer’s attitude towards their words’ contents. In English, these moods are referred to as the subjunctive, the imperative, and the indicative. The subjunctive mood indicates a hypothetical, a suggestion, a requirement or a desire. The…

When speaking or writing in English it is vital that you follow the rules of subject verb agreement. In simple terms, this is making sure that the subject agrees with the verb for example ‘You are’ and not ‘you am.’ By using the correct subject verb agreement, you will be able to make much more…

Quantifiers! The quantifier is a type of determiner which can indicate quantity, or how many. Some examples of these might be all, many or few. These words are very useful to have in your English vocabulary as they will allow you to effectively refer to quantity. In this section, we are going to be looking at…

Subject Auxiliary Inversion! When you swap or ‘invert’ the subject with a finite auxiliary verb this is known as subject-auxiliary inversion. This is a grammatical concept that is quite often seen within the English language and it is therefore important that you are aware of how it works. There are some instances in which subject-auxiliary…

In the English language, there are a variety of question words which can go at the beginning of a sentence, for example who, when, what or why. These words are an integral part of the English language and as a student of the language, it is important that you have a good knowledge of them.…

Question Tags! A question tag is something which can turn a statement into a question. Sounds pretty simple, right? That’s because it is. An example of this would be the statement ‘you don’t eat meat.’ By adding a question tag, you turn it into a question ‘you don’t eat meat, do you?’ In this section,…