Common Mistakes Believing that all verb-ed modifiers end with ‘ed’ Given the name ‘verb-ed’, I understand that it’s very natural to expect all of these modifiers to end with ‘ed’. However, that is not the case. Verb-ed modifiers are third forms of the verbs acting as modifiers, and there are many verbs whose third forms …
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Some Notes on Parallelism
Common Mistakes Can different verb tenses be parallel? Yes Can different prepositions be parallel? Yes Can active voice and passive voice be parallel? Yes Can a verb and a modifier be parallel? No. Two elements can be parallel ONLY if they are playing the SAME ROLE in a sentence. If one is a verb, the …
Why may you not succeed in Sentence Correction?
1. The first reason you may not succeed in Sentence Correction is that you may not practice Sentence Structure (SS) enough You may think: “SS takes a lot of time. Thus, I’ll anyway not be able to do it in the exam. Thus, there is no point doing it during practice.” Please understand that SS …
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Three Forms of a Verb
Every verb has three forms 1. Simple Present Form 2. Simple Past Form 3. Past Participle Form For example, the three forms of know, eat, and drink are: 1. Simple Present: know, eat, drink 2. Simple Past: knew, ate, drank 3. Past Participle: known, eaten, drunk The first two forms can act ONLY as verbs. …
Some Notes on Foundational SC Concepts
Some Notes on Foundational SC Concepts Three Forms of a verb Since there is a lot of content on this topic, I’ve written a separate article on this topic at this link. Can “known” standalone be a verb? No. “known” is the third form of the verb and thus cannot act as a verb without …
Some Notes on Pronouns
Some Notes on Pronouns Does Who always refer to the subject and Whom always refer to the object? NO. Who can refer to and thus modify ANY noun in a sentence (of course, within the constraints of the rules of noun modifiers), and Whom can also refer to and thus modify ANY noun in a …
Sentence Structure
Here are the links to all the pages containing practice sentences for sentence structure: Easy: Sentence Structure 1 Sentence Structure 2 Sentence Structure 3 Sentence Structure 4 Medium: Sentence Structure 5 Sentence Structure 6 Sentence Structure 7 Sentence Structure 8 Hard: Sentence Structure 9 Sentence Structure 10 Sentence Structure 11 Sentence Structure 12
Sentence Structure 12
The below sentences have been broken down into subject, verb, and modifiers. Since there are hardly any specific rules around objects, I’ve clubbed objects into modifiers to reduce complexity. One common confusion students face is regarding prepositional phrases following a noun that comes after a verb (…verb noun PP). In such cases, many students almost …
Sentence Structure 11
The below sentences have been broken down into subject, verb, and modifiers. Since there are hardly any specific rules around objects, I’ve clubbed objects into modifiers to reduce complexity. One common confusion students face is regarding prepositional phrases following a noun that comes after a verb (…verb noun PP). In such cases, many students almost …
Sentence Structure 10
The below sentences have been broken down into subject, verb, and modifiers. Since there are hardly any specific rules around objects, I’ve clubbed objects into modifiers to reduce complexity. One common confusion students face is regarding prepositional phrases following a noun that comes after a verb (…verb noun PP). In such cases, many students almost …