A few quick grammar tips before I start with the real stuff: If I ask, "How are you doing?" how do you reply? "No much men, sup with you", I will give you 3 ways to reply properly: "I am doing well (not good)," or " I have been doing well, how about you?" (Now for the not so well known one) "I am doing wholesome, how are you carrying out our life on this day?" This was just a little thing to help with greetings, so you can see what lies ahead in this long trek. (Note: I will use confusing words)
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Okay let's start simple: "Its" is possessive. EX: "It's his, you know," PROPER EXAMPLE: "The dog was chewing its food." Your example uses the contraction, and incorrectly.
:It's" is a contraction for "It is" EX: "It's (it is) time to go." "A", and "An" "A" is used if the following word's first letter is pronounced as a consonant (sorry not sure how to spell it I'll come back on this later) "An" is used if the following word is used as a vowel, EX: Our, Hour, Omni. (That is it for simple, for now I will be adding on to this guide in later times) We are now moving onto intermediate (spelling) level grammatical rules.
Proper usage of a verb: As you may know there are three types of verbs: future, past, and present tenses (Spelling) lets start with future: The future verbs we will use will be tense (SP) for the other two to make it easier, 1.) Running (other varieties can be used), 2.) Going to swim. Let's start with this. Ran, EX: I'm planning on running at 1:00. Another example to show the varieties is: I'm going to run at 1:00. Now for "Going to swim" EX: Leah and I are going to swim later. Other varieties: Leah and I are going to go swimming later. Now because I don't have much time to keep typing the rules for tenses (SP) I'm going to move on and edit later, when I have more time.
Proper simple sentences: Sentence fragments: Incomplete sentences. Well, that covers fragments. Oh wait! EX: Bye. Why, there is only a subject; no predicate! (we will touch on this later) A full simple sentence: I'm going to leave now. This is considered a simple sentence in the English language. Now I'm going to show you a complex sentence (not hard, really): Because Juan bought the book, Mary got mad. Okay, I know how to form the(?), but in my class we use a little something to explain things like this better here is a little quote (not copy righted):
A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which. In the following complex sentences, subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the subordinators and their commas (when required) are in red.
A. When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give the teacher the last page.
B. The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error.
C. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow.
D. After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies.
E. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying.
Simple, really. We will refer more to this site later; I will add a link later to refer back to, also.
Compound: A compound sentence has two subjects and two predicates. EX: I ran down the street to get Karen, but she ran off before I got to her. The two parts (or clauses) of the sentence are off setted by a comma (,) and a coordinater, but, because, yet, no, nor, ect. Here is another sample: A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator. The coordinators are as follows: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. (Helpful hint: The first letter of each of the coordinators spells FANBOYS.) Except for very short sentences, coordinators are always preceded by a comma. In the following compound sentences, subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the coordinators and the commas that
precede them are in red.
A. I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English.
B. Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping.
C. Alejandro played football, for Maria went shopping.
Okay now it's time to work on setting up a essay, or post...
Hello, this is just a little post to help you learn better English.
Now you may have notice indented o.0!!! This is one thing you must do if you want to do a proper letter (It will help in scams trust me)
Okay, now we start a new paragraph, we skipped a line, and indented, but now I'm going to add something in the middle of a sentence. How have you been doing in your stay at Hampton? I think you will find it enjoyable. See that??? "I think you will find it enjoyable", now I forgot what it is called an I'll fix it later. I don't think you can add a statement to the end of a question...
Okay that was the end to that part. We are going to do one more in this section: Independent Clauses.
Independent Clauses can stand alone in a sentence (whereas Dependent Clauses need something else) EX: I like that jacket he got. That sentence has a subject and a predicate, and expresses the thought, so it can stand alone. Now for a Dependent Clause: When Jim studied for his test... That can't stand alone. It has a subject, and a predicate, but doesn't show the complete thought. What happened?
Well guys, that's all I have tonight. I will add on later, hope this helped, please add what you want to see on this (yes, some parts need some touch ups but it should explain everything in CORRECT grammar (sorry been spelling grammar wrong)