ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Poetry is a form of literary expression that uses language to evoke emotion, convey meaning, and create beauty through the use of various techniques such as meter, rhyme, imagery, metaphor, ...
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Every simple sentence must have two basic elements which are: i. the thing/person we are talking about ii. what the thing/person is doing. The thing/person we are talking about indicated ...
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The adverb clause is that part of a sentence which has a finite verb and as a unit behaves like an adverb. It may serve the following functions in a ...
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An adjunct is an adverbial, that is, a unit of language that performs the function of an adverb. What is unique or special about an adjunct is that it is ...
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Declension (otherwise known as the inflection of nouns and pronouns) is the change in form of nouns and pronouns to indicate person, number, case; and gender. Specifically, noun declension refers ...
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Adjectives are words that modify nouns or noun-equivalents and fellow adjectives. The italicised words below are some examples of adjectives: Professor Stefano is a seasoned scholar. He is prolific. He ...
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Voice refers to the form which a transitive verb assumes to show whether it acts or is acted upon. This implies that the verb has two voices: active and passive ...
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PERSON Person is the form of the verb which designates the person speaking (i.e. first person; e.g. I am), the person spoken to (i.e. second person; e.g. You are) and ...
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The Future Perfect Tense Form This tense is formed with shall/will + perfect infinitive (without to): shall + have spoken = (We) shall have spoken. will + have read = ...
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The Present Perfect Continuous Tense Form The present perfect continuous tense is formed by adding the present participle to the present perfect tense of the verb to be: has/have + ...
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