Category Archives: Mastering the Alphabet

NKWEN LANGUAGE LESSONS Greetings, family, Alphabet, Tone Marks, Numbers

Simple Greetings and Responses
Tone Marks
Alphabet
Numbers

Mechanics of Writing 1 – Punctuation

Punctuation
Assistance to all English Language Learners.

Mechanics of Writing 1

Punctuation
Assistance to all English Language Learners.

The Sentence

THE SENTENCE
A sentence is a group of words that contains at least a subject and a predicate and expresses a complete thought. Take note of the word complete. If the thought is not complete, then the group of words is not a sentence but a fragment. It is important that you learn to write and speak in sentences, that is, learn to express yourself in complete thoughts and not in fragments or dependent clauses. Sentences are made up of clauses.

The Preposition and Uses

Prepositions are linking or connecting words. They link words that follow them to other words in a sentence. We can equally say a preposition is a connecting word which shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence. Examples:

The Preposition

Prepositions are linking or connecting words. They link words that follow them to other words in a sentence. We can equally say a preposition is a connecting word which shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence. Examples:

The Articles, Definite, Indefinite and zero

In English, articles are classified into three categories:
the indefinite, the definite and the zero articles.
The indefinite articles: a and an

Verb Tenses

What are tenses?
The Simple Present
The Present Continuous/Progressive
The Present Perfect Tense
The Present Perfect Continuous

The Simple Past Tense, The Past Continuous Tense
The Past Perfect Tense
The Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Simple Future Tense, The Future Perfect Tenses
Future Continuous, Subject/Verb Agreement

Prayer to our Guardian Angel

Angel of God, my Guardian dear.