Subject verb agreement

DO NOT BE STUNNED AT THE SIGHT OF THE TITLE.SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT IS THE BASIC THING YOU HAVE TO LEARN to talk in flawless rather in grammatic mistakes free English.This basic knowledge would help you to write letters,paragraphs,essays or answer in your own words kinds easily.Interestingly it would help you to even identify the errors in anybody's writings,magazines,advertisements or messages typed by anyone,speeches delivered by others and so on.

So first let's understand what is a Subject???????



                   

Subject is something we talk about most importantly in a sentence.If we describe or explain or discuss about any person or thing in a sentence that is called a SUBJECT.
Sometimes "PRONOUNS" say he,she,you,it,they,we,I could also serve as subjects.


VERBS
   
                 

VERBS are doing words basically called action words,for example say play,dance,eat,walk,kick,laugh,throw,sits,eats,bites,flips,runs and so on,they describe an action.

VERBS have various other categories but for now what we need to also know is "be" verbs.
is,was,are,were,am,be are called as "be" verbs.They play key roles in framing grammatically correct sentences.

So now knowing both "SUBJECT" and "VERB",now let's move on to knowing SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
The number of the subject and verb has to be the same.In short both have to be singular or plural.

This could be well explained by an example.

The cat drinks milk.Here cat is the subject,drinks is the verb.

For subject-for singular(here cat)-no "s"-cat
For verb-for singular(here drink)-should carry "s"-drinks

The cats drink milk.
For subject-for plural(here cat)-should carry "s"-cats
For verb-for plural(here drink)-no "s"

Let me quote a few more examples 

The horses ran fast.
The schools are closed for Diwali.
The hall is full.
The doctors are in a conference.
Ooty is a beautiful place. 
The books are scattered on the floor.
We were chatting yesterday.
You are very kind.
The baby was playing.
She is sitting.
The bird sang well.
The dog moves its tail rapidly.
Sheyz is a good boy.
Mary climbs the steps.
The ball rolls on the playground.
The leaves shake in the breeze.
The bell rings at 12 noon.
The driver sleeps in the bus.
She cooks well.

So here in these good examples above the subject agrees with the verb in number.Hope I have made the topic easier and simplified for you...
Catch you all in another blog.......

Reference article for student(upon request)

Article on World's Heart Health Day (upon request by a student)

YOUR HEART BEAT COUNTS
How to write a reference article:-

REFERENCE ARTICLE GENERAL FORMAT

• AUTHOR'S SURNAME 
• AUTHOR'S INITIALS
• YEAR,MONTH,DATE OF PUBLICATION (in brackets)
• ARTICLE TITLE
• NEWSPAPER TITLE (in italics)
• PAGE NUMBER(S)

TO THE STUDENT WHO REQUESTED THE SCHOOL HELP

TO BE WRITTEN ON THE A4 SHEET BACKSIDE

IF AN OWN TITLE IS EXPECTED TO BE GIVEN WRITE DOWN THIS TITLE

      YOUR HEART BEAT COUNTS

REFERENCE ARTICLE 

Dr.BIMAL CHHAJER MD.                       (2019,September 29)WORLD HEART HEALTH DAY.

THE HINDU(SHOULD WRITE SLANTINGLY -IN ITALICS),p.9.

Write in the comments section if you have any doubts.

Nouns

NOUNS
NOUNS ARE A VERY INTEGRAL PART OF ENGLISH.WITHOUT NOUNS NOTHING COULD BE ADDRESSED.
NOUNS IN COMMON DENOTE person,place,animal and thing.
                       
                       

Let's patiently work on it.

For instance
person-teacher
place-school
animal-dog
thing-box

These are called NOUNS.

There could be simple huge categories of NOUNS,many types though,to know the basics these 2 categories would be sufficient.

COMMON NOUNS AND PROPER NOUNS
      
                        

LET'S FIRST BEGIN WITH COMMON NOUNS

EXAMPLES QUOTED ABOVE ARE THOSE TYPICAL COMMON NOUNS SAY,
Regular words which denote person,place,animal,thing are called COMMON NOUNS
Let's quote more examples

person-doctor
place-hospital
animal-cat
thing-bag
      

                    

Now that being clear with common nouns,let's look into proper nouns

PROPER NOUNS

The terms which are used to address the person,place,animal and thing are called PROPER NOUNS.

Few examples on the row
person-Zara
place-London
animal-Tommy(might be the name of any animal say dog)
thing-Lays



                         

                       

The simple notable fact is common nouns begin with a "small letter" and proper nouns begin with a "Capital letter".

Now dear ones take any of your magazines or newspaper or advertisements and find out them and note them down to learn NOUNS easily.Observe the NOUNS you use in your day-to-day lives.

Explore many nouns around you and continue exploring them.

HAPPY LEARNING.
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ARTICLES

ARTICLES

          
                             

Articles are basic and simple words like 'a','an' and 'the'
Let's begin with the basics and then a few examples
Vowels - a,e,i,o,u are called vowels.
Consonants - All the LETTERS other than the vowels are called consonants.



This is a basic hint you must have in your mind before beginning with grammar.
                         


                         

Coming to our main idea "Articles"
a,an and the are the articles.
(definite - sure,indefinite - not sure)
Well 'a' and 'an' are the indefinite articles in the sense that they could denote anything non specific.
For example
I bought a blue box.
The 'blue box' specified here could be any blue box nothing specific.So it's not definite so 'a' is called indefinite article.

Next let's move on to 'an'

I ate an apple.

So similarly it could be any apple that you could have eaten.Naturally this being indefinite 'an' is called an indefinite article.This briefs on the indefinite articles.


'An' is used before a word which begins with a vowel say,apple,umbrella,angel,ostrich and so on.There are certain exceptions where we use 'a' before certain words beginning with vowels say,university,European,useful etc.Let's wind up on the indefinite articles 'a' and 'an' quoting a few examples.

Examples
Peter has a parrot.
I bought a car.
Wellington is a beautiful place.
Sara drew a beautiful picture.
He is an angry man.
Maria had an umbrella.
She is an early bird.
They have an olive tree in their backyard.


SIMILARLY, there are certain exceptions for 'an' also
The first letter of certain words remains silent,like for humble the 'h' is silent hence we pronounce it as 'umble.So 'h' being silent here, since their is a vowel 'u' as the beginning letter it is always "an humble" person.Similar examples include honest,honour,honorary,hour,an heir and so on 
It is an historical event.
I came here an hour before.
He is an honest man

For only few extra exceptional words like hotel we say "a hotel".
Initially,though you might find it a bit confusing it would become easy as you get used to.
"Practise makes you perfect dear children".

                      

                       

 The last article is 'the' 

'The' is a definite article.It is used when the thing you signify is specific.

Bring the soap I bought yesterday.

The shop next to my house is good.

The first prize goes to Zara.

The winner of the Olympiad is Leno.

'The' is used for superlative degrees,say the extreme words like hottest,biggest,tallest,highest,greatest,most intelligent,most popular,most significant and so on.

Rajasthan is the hottest place in India.

She is the tallest girl in the class.

She is the most intelligent girl I have ever seen.

Harris is the smartest boy.

Hope I have made articles very simple and straight,so start using them in your day to day lives correctly and share this with your kids.

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MY SECOND BLOG

HERE I SPRING UP WITH MY SECOND BLOG 

       In my forthcoming blogs I would love to teach proper pronunciation techniques,kids could practise from childhood,of course flawless English makes you a bit confident factually.

Your best command over your language comes when you pronounce the alphabets correctly

                     

For instance as a start I shall hint you certain pronunciations for certain words.

Thumb - pronounce it as thum

Chaos - kayos

Often - awfen

Wednesday - Wenz-day

Bass - base

Receipt - ree-seet

School - skool

Honour - 'onor('h' is silent)

Potatoes - po-tatos

schedule - ske-dule 

Power - paar

Tower - taar

Celebrate - selabrate

Crucial - cru-shial

Jalepeno - ala-peno

Conscious - con-shious

               

                     

As a fact,

In general proper nouns could be pronounced leniently as you wish

For example 

You could pronounce Peter as "Peter or Peeter" it's fine.

But well common nouns have to be pronounced the way they have to be

For example 

Onion has to pronounced as "anion"

       Hope I've made it pretty simple dear ones,catch you all soon in my next blog.Until that stay kind and always be positive.

HAPPY LEARNING AND HAPPY DAY.......

CHILDREN'S ENGLISH HELP

                                  

DEAR MOMS AND CHILDREN 

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                             I AM AN ENGINEER BY GRADUATION WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PASSION TO TEACH GOOD ENGLISH,THE LANGUAGE WHICH IS BEING CONSIDERED AS KNOWLEDGE THESE DAYS.YEAH!!!!! IT IS AN UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.SO AS ON THE GO LET'S LEARN IT FOR OUR FAINT REASON OF SURVIVAL.

                

                                  

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