English grammar ..
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Till now I have to admit my grammar sucks .. Take the below as an example
The girl fails her exam.
The girl fail her exam.
I can't even differentiate and my writing sucks because of this..and may I know what grammar rule is this under ? I have to buck up before my O's . -
conjugation?
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I will go do research on this . Thanks ..
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Originally posted by dbowie:I will go do research on this . Thanks ..
I know I learned this terms in pri sch, but who goes bother to remember all these
Just that I relearned all the names during German class -
The girl fails her exam
The girls fail their exam
The girl fail her exams
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Originally posted by hiphop2009:The girl fail her exams
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You need the English as it is Broken book.
Actually, this wouldn't be of much help as it needs you to understand some basic knowledge. I suggest you get some primary school grammar books to do. Read, understand and practise. I like those tiny thick books by Cosco, not too sure if it's still in production.
The girl fails her exam.
The girls fail their exams.The girl fail her exams
And this is wrong.
Correct one should be: The girl fails her exams.
Although exams is plural, it's not the subject of the sentence, thus it wouldn't affect the verb.
And remember what's a verb. It's an action word. Exams is not doing anything, thus it wouldn't even qualify.
The part to read up and practise on is Subject-verb agreement. -
Isn't it...
"The girl failed her exams."
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The girl fails her exams
The girls fail their exams
The girl failed her exams
teh gurl failx herr examazxz worxx! -
Depends on where you using that particular sentence.Originally posted by missqi:Isn't it...
"The girl failed her exams."
All also can.
The girls failed their exams also can. -
Logically, yes. But I don't think grammar is in any way logical.Originally posted by missqi:Isn't it...
"The girl failed her exams." -
The girl needs to wake up her blardy idea and study harder...
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zzzz......
i totally sian diao when i saw the question~ -
The beauty of language. -
The girl failed her exam.In past tense because she oreddy failed mah!Originally posted by dbowie:Till now I have to admit my grammar sucks .. Take the below as an example
The girl fails her exam.
The girl fail her exam.
I can't even differentiate and my writing sucks because of this..and may I know what grammar rule is this under ? I have to buck up before my O's .
buy self study books to help you cope with it.English Grammar In Use (Cambidge University Press) -
just remeber this :
He and she has an ass
I and you have no ass
he runs, she runs
i run, you run -
Thanks guys. And the asses are nice.
I will get myself some basic english grammar books to improve on my struggling grammar . -
why use the girl fails her exams?
so troublesome.
just use..
the exam fails the girl. -
Pika fails his exam...
No no...
Pika fails his exams... -
Haiz me spelling bad, grammar bad, sentence structure also bad...
How sia? -
Pika, you should go do a research on the internet about subject verb agreement.
After some time I finally realized my mistakes ... -
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Sentences basically are made up of one or more "clauses"Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:You need the English as it is Broken book.
Actually, this wouldn't be of much help as it needs you to understand some basic knowledge. I suggest you get some primary school grammar books to do. Read, understand and practise. I like those tiny thick books by Cosco, not too sure if it's still in production.
The girl fails her exam.
The girls fail their exams.
And this is wrong.
Correct one should be: The girl fails her exams.
Although exams is plural, it's not the subject of the sentence, thus it wouldn't affect the verb.
And remember what's a verb. It's an action word. Exams is not doing anything, thus it wouldn't even qualify.
The part to read up and practise on is Subject-verb agreement.
Its hard to explain what a clause is, but I hope the example below gives you an idea:
I ate the cake ( 1 clause )
I ate the cake and drank milo ( 2 clauses )
In each clause there must be at least one noun (or noun group) and one verb (or verb group)
Nouns, very simply put are words that refer to people, places etc. It actually goes further than that. Words that can be treated as objects are also classified as nouns (Abstract Nouns, I think.... heard another name for it but cannot remember it now) For example:
His stupidity never fails to amuse me.
His recklessness gets him into a lot of trouble.
In the example you see the words "stupidity" and "recklessness" used as nouns like how I would say, "His pencil" or "His pen"
The center of any sentence is its Verb or Verb group.
The Verb simply put is "An action word"
Thus words like "eat", "sleep" are all verbs.
This Verb has at least one or more of the following that's related to it.
The Subject and the Object. The Subject can be seen as the person doing the action. The Object... is the person/thing the action is done on. The Object of the action. For example.
The SAF soldier smuggled a gun out of camp.
S + V + O
subject = SAF soldier
Verb = smuggled
object = a gun
SVO is the most basic of sentence structure and is called an active sentence.
The Gun was smuggled by the SAF soldier
O + V + S
Even though the order of the words are changed, the gun is still the object of the action. And the SAF soldier is still the person doing the action.
Sentences of this structure are called passive sentences.
What Subject-Verb Agreement says is that,
For each clause, the subject must agree with the verb. Note that this is true for each clause in the sentence. So you can have more than one clauses, and each clause may be singular or plural.
For example.
He shoots the pigs while they shoot the monkeys.
First Clause : He shoots the pig (S = He (singular) V = shoots (singular) O = pigs (plural))
In this clause, you notice that the Verb only needs to agree with the subject. Yes, most singular verb has a "s" after the root verb.
Second Clause : They Shoot the Monkeys (S = They (plural) V = shoot (plural))
There, long-winded but I hope informative. -
I must add that, in the passive sentences
O + V + S,
The gun was smuggled by the soldier,
The Verb agrees with the Object instead of the Subject. -
wait wait wait....
the gal must get back the test first ma
so the gal failed her exam
if she thinks, the girl might fail her exam