Adverb

Adverb is a word used for describing verb, adjective and adverb itself. But here I will tell you more about it. It may be used to show time, manner, place and so on. We can ask question by using question words how, when, and where. Look at the examples below!

How short story can help the learners learn English

Before I continue writing about the next English material, let me tell you about something that I think it can help you learn English. It is about how short story can help you improve your ability in English. This is also about my experience when my teachers taught me the English subject in an English course.

Conjunction

As I have posted in the previous posting about part of speech that it is used to join words and words, phrases and phrases and clauses and clauses. In this writing I would like to explain more about it. However, before I tell you more about this, I want you to check your understanding yourselves about it by giving you a paragraph. Here is the paragraph that you can identify the conjunctions.

Noun

Now we will discuss about noun. There are many nouns that we can find surrounding us easily such as table, chair, teacher, happiness and many others. However it is not just like this. There are many kinds of the noun. It can be concrete and it can also be abstract. Here we will discuss all about the noun.

Adjective

Look at the paragraph below!

My friend, Likin, is a handsome tall boy. He always wears a long white T-shirt and a big red cap. He carries a huge blue canvas bag to school. His favorite food is crunchy red apples and he always has one in his bag. Our teacher is an English kind tall man called Mr. Bakri. He wears a smart blue suit and glasses with thick black plastic frames.

Can you identify the adjectives in the example paragraph above? How do you know if they are adjectives? How they are combined with the noun? Well, I will try to explain all these questions. Here they are:

Pronoun

The function of pronoun is to replace the noun. In the sentence it can replace the noun in the subject and in the object. Have a look the examples below!

1.      John and William are English students. They memorize five vocabularies every day.

2.      Henry visits his new girl friend twice a week. He always gives her flowers every time he visits her.

3.      Whose book is this?

This is my book.

4.      Whose book is this?

This is mine.

5.      I myself do this assignment.

The first sentence we can see that the word ‘they’ replaces the subject ‘John and William’. We do not need to write ‘John and William’ anymore instead of ‘they’. ‘They’ here is called as a subject pronoun because it replaces the noun ‘John and William’ in the subject of the sentence. The word ‘they’ here comes before the verb ‘are’ (or it can be called as linking verb). So, we can understand that the subject pronoun is located before the subject not after the verb.