Find the mistakesEach sentence given below contains one mistake. Find the mistake and correct it.Example:Sentence: I enjoy to sail.Correction: I enjoy sailing.1. I suggested her to go home.2. We don’t allow that people smoke in the kitchen.3. I didn’t ask that he pay for the mea[r]
Sentence correction exerciseEach sentence given below contains one mistake. Find the mistake and rewrite the sentence.1. To hit a person when he is down is a contemptuous thing to be done.2. In 1665, a great epidemic had caused the death of 63000 people in London.3. Becau[r]
Sentence correction: grammar exerciseEach sentence given below contains one or more grammar mistakes. Correct the mistake(s) and rewrite thesentences.1. Sid can play tennis as good as his brother.2. The match hadn’t hardly begun when it started raining.3. That was sure a mistake[r]
Sentence correctionIncorrect: Neither Peter nor John were present.Correct: Neither Peter nor John was present.Two singular nouns connected by or or nor should be followed by a singular verb.Incorrect: Neither the lecturers nor the principal were present at the meeting.Correct: Neither the pri[r]
Sentence correctionCorrect the following sentences.1. He is running seventeen.2. He is eighteen complete.3. According to me, it is wrong.4. Our house is built by bricks.5. He went to the back side of the building.6. He was prevented to come.7. There was a match between Team A against Team B.8[r]
Eliminate incomplete sentences from your writingWe have already learned that a sentence must have a subject and a finite-verb of its own. An independentclause can make a sentence because it has a subject and a verb. Phrases, on the other hand, cannot besentences.A phrase is a group of[r]
Using ‘it’ as an introductory subjectIt can be used with who and that-clauses to emphasize one part of a sentence.Study the examples given below.My father gave me a laptop on my birthday.We can express the same idea in three different ways.It was my father who gave me a laptop on my birthday.[r]
Grammar terms beginning with Letter DDangling participleA dangling participle is a participle which is not grammatically linked to the rest of the sentence. For example, inthe sentence ‘Standing at the gate, a scorpion bit him’, the participial phrase ‘standing at the gate’ is dangling[r]
Grammar terms: simple sentence, singular, split infinitiveSimple sentenceA sentence which contains only one main clause. Examples are: She is coming; The king is dead; My brotherwants to buy a new car.SingularThe simplest form of an English noun. This is the form which is entered in a[r]
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Gerunds and infinitives as subjectsThe subject of a sentence is usually a noun or a pronoun. But sometimes, to-infinitives and –ing forms arealso used as subjects.Study the examples given below.Swimming is a good exercise.Here the –ing form ‘swimming’ acts as the subject of the verb ‘is’.More[r]
Grammar Terms – Part IDangling participleThe term dangling participle refers to a participle which is not grammatically linked to the rest of the sentence. Forexample, in the sentence ‘Standing at the gate, a scorpion stung him’, the participial phrase ‘standing at thegate’ is dangling[r]
Rewrite using it is / it wasWe can put emphasis on a particular noun by beginning the sentence with the structure ‘it is / it was’.Read the following sentence.Susie does all the housework.This sentence doesn’t put an emphasis on any word.It is Susie who does all the housework. ([r]