We have seen that we can use adjectives to compare people, things or places. Adverbs can also be used to compare actions. And like adjectives, we use the comparative form of an adverb to compare two actions and the superlative form of an adverb to compare more than two actions. Examples: ONE ACTION: Maree swims fast. […]
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Adverbs of time These answer the question when? Examples: He joined the class yesterday. Today, I will go to the cinema. Adverbs of place These answer, the question where? Examples: Mrs. Joyce has gone out. The bus stop is near the post office. Adverbs of frequency These answer the question how often? Examples: She often
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An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverb tells how, when, or where, or to what extent an action happens. Examples: HOW: The man walked quickly. WHEN: It will rain soon. WHERE: We shall meet here at 2 p.m. TO WHAT EXTENT: He is extremely rude. Other Examples: HOW,
Most adjectives appear immediately before the nouns they are modifying e.g. Descriptive: The beautiful house belongs to my uncle. Demonstrative: That house belongs to my uncle. Numerals: Two houses were burned down. Articles: The house on fire belongs to her sister. Possessive pronouns: Their house was burned down. Predicate Adjectives Some adjectives appear after the
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Those and Then Those is an adjective if it followed by a noun. It is a pronoun if it is used alone. Examples: Those thieves are daring! (adjective modifying thieves) Those are thieves! (pronoun) Them is always a pronoun. It is used only as the object of a verb or as the object of a
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Two special kinds of adjectives are the articles and the possessive pronouns. Articles Articles are the words a, an and the. A and an are special adjectives called indefinite articles. They are used when the nouns they modify do not refer to any particular thing. Examples: A student rang the bells (no specific student) An
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The interrogative adjectives are used with nouns to ask questions. Examples are what, which, and whose. Examples: What movie do you want to see? Which leaves tern colour first? Whose son is he? An interrogative adjective may look like an interrogative pronoun but it is used differently. It is an adjective, used to modify a noun.
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These are adjectives which tell how many or how much. They give the number or the quantity, either specific or approximate, of the noun in question. They are also referred to as numerals Examples: Three elephants were killed by the game rangers. He bought several houses in Kileleshwa. Don’t put much sugar in the tea! More
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A demonstrative adjective tells which one or which ones. They are used before nouns and other adjectives. There are 4 demonstrative adjectives in English: This, that, these and those. This and these are used to refer to nouns close to the speaker or writer. That and those refer to nouns farther away. This and that
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Descriptive adjectives tell us the size, shape, age, colour, weight, height, make, nature and origin of the nouns they are describing. Descriptive adjective are of two types. 1) Common descriptive adjectives These are adjectives that give general features of somebody or something. They are the adjectives of size, shape, age, colour, weight, height, make and
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An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. To describe or modify means to provide additional information about nouns or pronouns. To modify further means to change something slightly. Writers and speakers modify an idea or image by choosing certain describing words, which are called adjectives. Hence, these adjectives
Some pairs of verbs confuse learners of English because their meanings are related but not the same. Others confuse them because they sound similar, but their meanings are different. Others are similar in appearance but different in meanings. The pairs meaning Present tense, Past tense, Past participle. Examples of its usage 1 Sit Set: To
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Some sentences express a complete thought with only a subject and an action verb. Example: The sun shines. Subject Active verb In other sentences, a direct object must follow the action verb for the sentence to be complete. A direct object is a noun or a pronoun that receives the action of the verb. Example: The goalkeeper
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Active Voice A verb is in active voice when the subject of the sentence performs the action. Examples: Our teacher punished us for making noise in class. Subject action Players arrived for their first match early in the morning. Subject action In the above sentences, the subject is who performed the action. Hence, the verbs of
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We have learned in previous lesson how to form the past tense and how to use helping verbs to show that something has already happened. We saw that for most verbs, we form the past tense and participles by adding -d or -ed to the verb. Verbs that follow this rule are called Regular Verbs.
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Present tense A verb and its subject must agree in number. To agree means that if the subject is singular, the verb must be in singular form. If the subject is plural, the verb form must be plural. Examples: The baby cries every morning – Singular The babies cry every morning – Plural Rules for
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The progressive form of the verb shows continuing action. Examples: I am singing She was dancing. The progressive form is formed using various forms of the verb be plus the present participle i.e a verb form that ends in -ing. Examples: Present Progressive Tense I am reading a book about Red Indians. Her mother is
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The perfect tenses are used to show that an action was completed or that a condition existed before a given time. The perfect tenses are formed using has, have, or had before the past participles i.e. Verb forms ending in -ed. Examples: Present Perfect Tense: Ceasar has just finished his homework. Kalu and Njoroge have
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A verb which is in future tense tells what is going to happen. Examples: Evans will take his car to the garage. She will probably come with us. The verbs will take and will come tell us what is going to happen. Hence, they are in future tense. To form the future tense of a verb,
The most common tenses of the verb are the simple tenses. You use them most often in your speaking and writing. Present simple tense. Look at the following sentences. (a) I know Kisumu (b) He goes to school everyday. (c) The sun rises from the east. All the above sentences contain a verb in the