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 Pronouns: A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. There are different kinds of pronouns. 1- Personal pronouns: Personal pronouns may be used as: 1- The subject of a verb. 2- The object of a verb. 1- subject pronouns: The subject of a verb does the action of the verb. The personal pronouns I, You, He, She, It, We and They can all be used as the subject of a verb. Study the following two sentences: Jenna Likes cats. She has four cats. In the First sentence, the proper noun Jenna is the subject of the verb likes. In the second sentence, the pronoun she is the subject of the verb has. Here are some more pairs of sentences that show personal pronouns used as subject of verbs. My name is Jenna. I am twelve. My father works hard. He works in a factory. My sister is older than me . She is twelve. Our dog is very naughty. He likes to chase cats. Bob, you are a bad dog!. Liam and I are playing football. We like sports. Jim and Jeff are my brothers. They are older than I am. 2- O...

 The possessive form of nouns: 1- Use the possessive form of a noun to show ownership. *To make the possessive form, put an apostrophe and an S 'S after a singular noun. Examples: 1- This is my bed and that is peter’s bed. 2-We all like Dad’s cooking. 3-It is my job to collect everybody’s plate after the meal. 4- The flies are buzzing around the horse’s tail. 5- This is Susan and Jenny’s room. 6-This is Tom ’s hat and that is tom’s father’s hat . Notes: How do you make the possessive form when two names linked by and are the owners? Put an ’S after the second name only. For example: 1-Katy and Mike’s house is very big. (= The house that belongs to both Kathy and Mike). 2- Joe and Lena’s Dad works at the shoe factory. (= He is joe’s Dad and he is also Lena’s Dad.) 3- Sometimes two possessive form with ’S appears together, one after another: Examples: 1- This is Jhon ’s brother ’s ball. (= The ball belongs to jhon ’s brother). 2-Paul’s Teacher ’s House has a swimming pool. (= The hou...

 Masculine and feminine nouns: 1-Masculine nouns are words for men, boys and male animals   Masculine            Feminine  Boy                        Girl Man                        Woman  Father                     Mother  Son                         Daughter  Husband                 Wife Grandfather          Grandmother  Uncle                     Aunt Brother                   Sister  Nephew                   Niece King                     ...

  Collectives Nouns: Words for groups of people, animals and things are called collectives nouns. 1-Here are some collectives nouns for groups of people. A family              A crew A community       A club A team                 A company A choir                  A committee A band                    A gang An orchestra         The army An audience            A Musical group. 2-Collectives nouns may be used with a singular verb. If the group is acting as a single unit, use a singular verb. If group of members are acting as individuals, use plural verb. For example: 1- The crowd was orderly. *Group acting as a single unit./ singular. 2-The crowd were clapping, yelling and cheering *Groups of members acting as individuals/ plural. NOTES...

  Active voice  means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb.  Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action.  In English grammar, verbs have five properties: voice, mood, tense, person, and number; here, we are concerned with voice. The two grammatical voices are  active and passive . the difference: Active voice When the subject of a sentence performs the verb’s action, we say that the sentence is in the  active voice .  Example: Monkeys adore bananas. The sentence have a basic active voice construction: subject,  verb , and object. Passive voice: A sentence is in the  passive voice , on the other hand, when the subject is acted on by the verb. The passive voice is always constructed with a conjugated form of  to be plus the verb’s past participle.  Example: Bananas are adored by monkeys. the first pair of sentences, “Monkeys adore bananas” and “Bananas are adored by monkeys.” The active sente...

  Imperative verbs are verbs that create an imperative sentence (i.e. a sentence that gives an order or command). When reading an imperative sentence, it will always sound like the speaker is bossing someone around. Imperative verbs don’t leave room for questions or discussion, even if the sentence has a polite tone. Use the root form of the verb to create the imperative. Consider the examples below: Give  me that book! Clean  your room! Do  your homework. Take  the dog for a walk, please. Don’t touch  that! Do come to visit  us whenever you’re in town. The imperative mood in English is generally used  to give an order ,  to prompt someone to do something,  to  give a   warning  or to  give instructions . There are several distinguishable forms of the imperative in English: affirmative, negative, and exhortative, as well as the more cordial ways of expressing an order. Let’s look at the characteristics of each of thes...