Splitting up sentences

Content Grammar Stock:

1. Sentence
2. The subject and the predict
3. Phrases and clauses
4. Parts of speech
5. Nouns - classification
6. Nouns - number
7. Nouns - gender
8. Nouns - case
9. Adjective
10. Determiners - Articles
11. Pronoun s
12. Verbs - principal and auxiliary
13. Tenses
14. Voice
15. Mood
16. Berbaris or non finite verbs (Infinitive, Participle, Gerunds and verbal nouns)
17. Auxiliary, Defective and anomalous verbs.
18. Question tags
19. The sequence of tenses
20. Tense in conditional sentences.
21. Adverb
22. Prepositions
23. Conjunctions
24. Interjections
25. Negative sentences
26. Interrogative sentences
27. Uses of few words
28. Use of some words and phrase
29. Some words used as different parts of speech
30. Appropriate prepositions
31. Group verbs
32. Direct and indirect narration.
33. Phrases
34. Clauses.
35. Simple, complex and compound Sentences
36. Sentence analysis
37. Syntax
38. Some example of corrections
39. Idioms
40. Idiomatic uses of a few words.

Sentence (Grammar Stock)

A Sentence is a group of words giving a complete sense.

Sentences may divided into five classes, each of which may be further subdivided into two, Affirmative and Negative.

a) Assertive (simple statement)
I know him. I do not know him.

b) Interrogative (ask question)
Why is he there? Why is he not there?

c) Imperative (express command or request)
Come here. Do not come here.

d) Optative (express a wish)
May he live long.

e) Exclamatory (sudden feeling or emotion)
How nice! Alas! He is no more.

Noun

1. Proper Nouns.

Proper Nouns are used to refer to specific person, place or thing.
A proper noun always starts with a capital letter. These nouns also refer to the names of the days of week and months, and also various names of organization, institution, religious, etc. Which are proper and specific.

Ali
Pakistan
Hazara Town

2. Common Nouns

Proper nouns refer to general, unspecific person, place or thing.

Boys
Girls
Students

3. Compound Nouns

A compound noun is a noun which contains two or more words which join together to make a single noun is called compound noun.
A compound noun can be written together, Such as “ Football” can be hyphenated such as “ six-pack, Mother-in-law” or separate words such as “ Post office”.

Classroom
Paper-clip
Police station

4. Collective Nouns

A Collective noun is a noun which refers to a group of people or group of something in a specific manner or unit.

Family
Audience
People

Note: Collective nouns can be either singular or plural, consider the examples below.

Our team is playing the final on Friday.
Our class graduates two years ago.

5. Concrete Nouns

A concrete noun is a noun which can be touched, smelled, seen, felt or tasted.
Concrete nouns can be countable or uncountable, common noun, proper noun or collective nouns can be concrete noun.

Plate
Chair
Water

6. Abstract Nouns

Abstract nouns are the names of things that you can perceive or recognize with your five senses.

Freedom
Love
Happiness

7. Material Nouns

Material nouns refer to material or substance out of which things are made.

Gold
Silver
Iron

8.Pronoun

Personal pronouns are types of nouns that take the place of nouns which are referring to people, places or things are called pronouns.

I
He
She
It
They

9. Countable nouns

Countable nouns are the nouns which can be counted. These nouns can be used in both the singular and plural forms, When used as plural forms they can be counted.

Friends
Chairs
She had a pet dog. –Dog is also a countable noun as its plural is dogs.

10. Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable nouns are the nouns which cannot be counted and have only singular form.
These nouns are exact opposite of countable nouns.

Water
Rice
Sugar

Grammar stock Classification of pronoun

Pronouns may be divided into the following eight classes
a. Personal (including Possessive) - I, You, he, she, it, hers, ours etc.
b. Demonstrative - This, that, such, so, etc.
c. Relative- Who, which, that, what, as, whosever, whatever, whichever, etc.
d. Interrogative- Who, which, what, etc.
e. Distributive- Each, either, neither, etc.
f. Relaxive- Myself, they self, himself, etc.
g. Indefinite- One, any, some, they, etc.
h. Reciprocal- Each other, one another .

Question may be asked to split up a long sentence into short simple sentences. This is just opposite of Synthesis. Few example as follows :

1. He was now full of gravity, and instead of answering in fun, he took the case seriously and gave an answer which in that particular case was perhaps the wisest that man had ever heard.

Ans : He was now full of gravity. So he did not answer in fun. Instead he took the case seriously. He gave an answer. Man had headed many answer before. But in that particular case this was perhaps the wisest.

2. Everybody knows that the boy who came to me for help is a liar and a cheat.

Ans: A boy came to me for help. He is a liar. He is cheater. Everybody know this.

Interchange of Interrogative and Assertive Sentences

Example of Interchange of Interrogative and Assertive Sentences:-

1. Int. - Why waste time ?
Assert - It is no use wasting time.

2. Int. - Shall I ever forget such a good friend?
Assert - I shall never forget such a good friend.

3. Assert.- No one can do this.
Int.- Can anyone do this?

4. Assert.- I can never forget you.
Int.- Can I ever forget you?

Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

Example of Interchange of Degrees of Comparison :

1. Posit- Jhon is not so tall as Kett.
Comp - Kett is taller than Jhon

2. Posit-She is as rich as her brother.
Comp - Her brother is not richer than her.

3. Super- He is the best boy in the class.
Comp - He is better than any other boy
Posit- No other boy in the class is so good as he.

Idiomatic use of word - Cut

The opponents were cut to pieces.
His life was cut short by cholera.
He cuts jokes with me.
You must cut your coat according to your cloth.
I was much cut up by your remark.

Splitting up sentences - Chora o Kabita