Agreement between Subject and Verb 3 One of the most confusing instances of subject verb agreement is when the verb follows the phrase ‘One of the’. The confusing part is that the there is a plural noun that comes before the verb. See this sentence: One of the boys is a singer. It is really […]

Portmanteau Words Have you come across words like infotainment and motorcade? These words are commonly used in discourses now a days. Do you know that some of such words that we use regularly in day-to-day life are, in fact, combinations of two distinct words? For example, infotainment is a blend of information and advertisement; and […]

Agreement between Subject and Verb 2 We know that a noun is plural when it indicates that there is more than one in terms of number; viz. cow is singular while cows is plural. Generally, a plural noun is denoted by s at the end of the noun and it is easy for us to […]

Adjectives Adjectives are words that describe nouns, such as good, big, and beautiful. Usually, adjectives are formed with the addition of a suffix—meaning sounds added after the word—such as –able, -al, -ary, -ful, -ive, -less, -y etc. For example, if you add –able to like, we get the adjective likeable. Rational, customary, thankful, active, shameless, […]

Agreement between Subject and Verb One difficulty with English is its insistence on agreement between the subject of a sentence and the verb in terms of number. It simply means that if the subject is singular, the verb should be singular; and if the subject is plural, the verb should be plural. It is wrong […]

What is a group of crows called? We often use the word group to mean a collection of similar things, animals or people: a group of cows or a group of people, for example. However, English has a number of words to denote specifically the group of certain nouns. Although it is not wrong to […]