Month: January 2010

More often an adverbial is not essential to the grammar of the clause it is in. In each case of…

There remains one clause component that is much less straightforward: adverbials. These are words or phrases that answer question such…

Subject+verb+object+complement. It is also possible to have part of a clause that completes the object: SUBJECT VERB OBJECT COMPLEMENT The…

Subject+verb+object. If there is an object, it normally follows the verb. It refers to a different person or thing from…

Subject+verb+complement. A small number of verbs are followed not by an object, but by a complement. The commonest of these…

Clauses can contain five different components: Subject. Verb. Object. Complement. Adverbial. Subject+verb. The simplest pattern for a clause is a…

We can use sentences for four main purposes in communication:  To make a statement: That car is travelling very…

So far we have looked at four grammatical levels: sentence, clause, phrase, word. There is just one more we need…