Grammar & Punctuation – base – English editing.

A term used in grammar to mean that something belongs to someone or something else.  With nouns we show possession by the use of the possessive Apostrophe: Sue’s bungalow. The Government’s admission.  Pronouns change their form and can be used as Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Determiners: Subjective Possessive Possessive Pronoun Pronoun Determiner I […]

Nouns are words used to identify people, places, things, and ideas. As a grammatical class, nouns satisfy most or all of the following tests:  Number: they have a Singular and Plural form: One car, two cars one child, several children.  Determiners: they can be preceded by a, an, or the: A child an […]

The main use of the exclamation mark is to end sentences that express:  An exclamation: ‘With a fixed bayonet! A fixed bayonet!’ he repeated incredulously.  Direct speech spoken loudly or shouted: ‘The first one … the first!’ everybody yelled.  Something that the writer or speaker finds amusing: Her son was the biggest […]