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Collective Nouns For Things
Examples of Collective Nouns for Things A bar of soap It wasn’t so long ago that every new car looked like a bar of soap. A battery of tests “We want to put the earth through a battery of tests,” he said. A bolt of lightning It was like a bolt of lightning hit the group at the same…
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Collective Nouns for People
Groups of People Examples Learn collective nouns for people – different groups of people in English (group synonym) with example sentences. A band of men A band of men here, known as the Islamists, took matters into their own hands last fall. A band of musicians A band of musicians has made this function romantic. A band…
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What is a Collective Noun?
What is a collective noun? A collective noun refers to a group of people, animals or a collection of things taken as a whole. Collective nouns examples: Learn collective nouns list for people, animals and things with examples illustrated with pictures. Collective Nouns List Learn an extensive list of collective nouns in English with example sentences and…
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Zero Conditional
What Is the Zero Conditional? Learn zero conditional (Present Real Conditional) definition and useful grammar rules to use the conditional sentence with examples and ESL worksheets. Zero conditional is easy to form because all the verbs are in present tense. You just use two clauses, one with If + simple present verb and the other with another simple present verb: If + Present Simple, ….…
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No Sooner Than
“No sooner… than” is correlative conjunction. These types of junctions work in pairs and relate one sentence to another; their pairs can include words like both and, neither nor, either or, not but and not only but also. And of course, no sooner than. List of Correlative Conjunctions As mentioned above, correlative conjunctions come in pairs, below is a full list…
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Rules for Using Either Or And Neither Nor
As Adverbs Adverbs are words that modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a whole sentence. When the terms either and neither are used as adverbs, they have almost the same exact purpose. And they usually don’t need to be paired with or/nor. Neither is used to show that a negative statement is also true for another thing or person. Either, on…
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Conjunction Words
What is a Conjunction Word? Conjunctions are not glamorous, but they do serve an important function. You can think of them as joining words. Conjunctions labor to bring words and phrases together. They help the writer create longer, more complex sentences. Only using simple sentences would limit the richness of a writer’s text. Examples of Simple Sentences Including…
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When to Use NO ARTICLE?
1. We usually use no article to talk about things in general. Examples: Milk is good for you. Men are always fond of soccer. 2. We do not use an article when talking about sports and games. Examples: Let’s go and play basketball. Badminton is an indoor game. He loves to play table tennis. 3. Do not use article before…
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In, On, At
What Are Prepositions of Time? Prepositions of time simply show the relationship of time between two parts of a sentence. Prepositions are the words that connect these ideas together by explaining how they relate to each other in terms of time. There are many different examples of how this can work, but generally speaking, showing the…
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Object of Preposition
Object In grammar, the object refers to the substance that the subject works on. Example in a sentence: In this example, “cat” is the subject, and “car” is the object that is acted upon. More often, the subject precedes the object, though not all the time. Following is an example in which the object antecedes…