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PARTS OF A SENTENCE: SUBJECT AND PREDICATE Key words: subject, predicate In traditional grammar, a sentence consists of two main parts – subject and predicate. The  subject  of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is  doing something,  or we are talking about. In other words, we must have a subject to speak or write about, while the predicate tells something about the subject. Let us consider the following sentence: Ravi sells computers. This sentence is about a person, Ravi , and it tells us what Ravi does. Ravi is therefore the subject of the sentence. Some other examples - Raman  plays football. Sudha and her friends play on the ground. In all the above sentences, the subjects are marked in bold letters. Typically, the subject is a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun . To determine the subject of a sentence, we first identify the  verb and then make a question by placing "who?" or "what?" befor...

MORE ABOUT PARTS OF SPEECH… As we have learnt, depending upon the meaning and use in a sentence, a word can be assigned different parts of speech. Accordingly, eight parts of speech are recognised in traditional English – noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. However, there are views that suggest creation of new part of speech, or even deletion of some. For example,   the classification of the British council ( https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english.../determiners-and-quantifiers ) recognises nine parts of speech, Determiners being the ninth one, in addition to the eight mentioned above. Determiners include some groups of words that are traditionally considered as adjectives. In a conventional sense, an adjective is a word used to describe or provide additional information about the noun. Adjectives used to describe about the size, shape, age, colour, origin, material, etc., of a noun or pronoun is termed...

PARTS OF SPEECH In the previous post, A sentence and Different types of sentences, we learnt that a sentence is a group of words, arranged as per certain grammatical rules, to convey a single idea. In this post we shall learn about the grammatical aspects of the words that make a sentence. Key words: Parts of speech, noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection. Let us recollect some of the sentences that we came across in the previous post: I play football. You are late again. The rose is a beautiful flower. We are students. They want food. As we notice, each of the above sentences consists of two main components - an action (doing something) and a doer of the action. According ly, some words denote the actions, and some other words define the doers. The words that denote an action are known as verbs . In the above sentences, play, are, is, want, are all action words. Doers of the action -  I, you, rose, We, The...

Role of Mother Tongue in Enhancing English Language skill India is a multi-lingual society.  People from different regions have different mother tongues: Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu are spoken in the North and Central India while Bengali, Assamese, Oriya are customary in the east; various South Indian languages are spoken in the south of the country, and so on.  We use either our mother tongue or any other regional language in our daily life, in house, in market, and for all general communication purpose. Generally, we speak, think and dream in our mother tongue only. India, on the other hand, is fast becoming an important player in global economy. Thanks to the knowledge and expertise of its specialists and entrepreneurs, India has emerged as a leading outsourcing hub for IT, Pharmaceutical and Automotive industry. At the same time, the vast Indian market is luring huge foreign capital along with many foreign experts and business personnel. India is also becoming an ...