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Dos & Don'ts: Traffic Signs and Modal Verbs

Learn the meaning of traffic signs and practice using modal verbs in this English lesson. Improve your reading, listening, and writing skills.

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Mastering English Verbs with Chef Nemeril

Enjoy a culinary journey with Chef Nemeril to understand helping verbs and their role in defining verb tenses. Join the cooking fun!

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Assertive to Interrogative: English Grammar Exercises and Practice

Enhance your English grammar skills with exercises on changing assertive sentences into interrogative ones. Learn how to transform sentences using auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, and without auxiliary verbs through practical examples and practice questions. Improve your sentence structure and comprehe

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MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS

Providing recommendations is a crucial skill in both spoken and written English, especially for tasks like formal essays, reports, proposals, and letters. This guide covers different ways to give recommendations using modal verbs, passive voice, gerunds, and more. Get insights on modal/semi-modal ve

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Understanding Active and Passive Verbs in English Sentences

Explore the concepts of active and passive verbs in English sentences through examples, identifying subjects and objects, discussing sentence structure, and converting between active and passive forms.

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Mastering the Past Participle in English Verbs

Understand how to form and use the past participle in English verbs, both regular and irregular. Learn the rules for forming regular past participles, including when to double consonants and when to change 'y' to 'i'. Discover examples of irregular verbs and how their past participles are formed. Ex

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Understanding Linking Verbs and Predicate Words in English Grammar

Linking verbs connect the subject of a sentence with a predicate word, while predicate words follow a linking verb to identify, rename, or describe the subject. Learn about sentence patterns, forms of linking verbs, and how to differentiate between linking and action verbs. Understand the role of pr

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Understanding Verbs: Action vs. State, Dynamic vs. Stative

Verbs are essential in sentences, describing actions or states of subjects. They can convey a sense of action like running or state like being. The distinction between dynamic (action) and stative (non-action) verbs is crucial, with dynamic verbs being used in continuous tenses and stative verbs des

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Understanding English Grammar and Traditional Grammar Concepts

English grammar involves the study of sentence and word structure, focusing on syntax and morphology. It includes rules governing the combination of words into well-formed phrases. Traditional grammar categorizes words into parts of speech such as nouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposi

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Understanding Predicators and Predicates in Sentence Semantics

Exploring the semantics of sentences, this content delves into the structure of declarative sentences in terms of predicators and arguments. It discusses various classes of items that can function as the predicator of a sentence, such as lexical verbs, the copulative verb "be" in equative sentences,

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Understanding Usage of 'Make', 'Allow', and 'Let' in English Grammar

Learn how to express obligation, permission, and prohibition using verbs like 'make', 'allow', and 'let'. Explore examples and understand the different structures for each concept. Improve your English grammar skills by mastering the nuances of these common verbs in various contexts.

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Understanding Modal Verbs in English

Modal verbs, also known as modals, are auxiliary verbs that express attitudes and levels of certainty in English. They serve various purposes, such as indicating certainty, ability, permission, and making requests. Modal verbs like can, could, may, might, will, would, must, shall, should, and ought

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Understanding Verbs: Introduction and Identification in English

This lesson introduces verbs in English, covering their meaning, identification, and categorization into linking and action verbs. Students will learn to identify verbs in sentences, distinguish linking verbs from action verbs, and understand the importance of verbs in forming meaningful sentences.

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Enhance Your Writing with Powerful Verbs

Explore the importance of powerful verbs in writing through examples and exercises in this lesson. Learn how replacing ordinary verbs with descriptive ones can create vivid imagery and engage readers. Practice selecting powerful verbs to elevate your writing skills and make your narratives come aliv

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Understanding Modal Verbs: Epistemic and Deontic Uses

Modal verbs, such as can, could, may, must, will, and should, play a crucial role in expressing modality in English. This content discusses the epistemic and deontic uses of modal verbs, illustrating how they convey likelihood, ability, permission, suggestions, obligations, and advice. Explore the n

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English Grammar Lesson on Changing Reporting Verbs and Inverted Commas

This English grammar lesson covers changing reporting verbs and inverted commas, focusing on direct and indirect speech transformations. Students learn how to alter reporting verbs and punctuations in sentences. The lesson includes various examples and explanations for better understanding.

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Understanding Action and Linking Verbs in Sentences

In this unit, you will delve into the essential concepts of action and linking verbs. Action verbs portray activities, while linking verbs connect the subject to its description. Discover tricks to differentiate between the two types of verbs and learn about predicate nominatives in sentence structu

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Mastering Powerful Verbs for Descriptive Writing

Learn how to enhance your writing by incorporating powerful verbs. Practice identifying verbs, adverbs, and nouns, and unleash your creativity by crafting sentences using dynamic action words. Explore the vivid descriptions of natural disasters like volcanic eruptions through engaging activities and

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Understanding Modal and Imperative Verbs: Usage and Examples

This content covers the explanation and examples of modal verbs, which express certainty, possibility, and obligation, as well as imperative verbs that denote commands and orders. Learn to identify and use these verb types accurately and creatively through practical examples and engaging activities.

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Mastering Reported Verbs: Understanding and Application

Dive into the intricacies of reported verbs in English language. Explore how to transform direct speech into reported speech using different reporting verbs. Learn about verbs like 'offer', 'promise', 'invite', 'consider', and 'deny' in reported speech structures. Practice reporting the bold parts o

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Understanding Noun Clauses in English Grammar

A clause is a group of words with a subject and verb, while a phrase lacks one. Noun clauses, functioning as nouns, serve various roles in sentences. They can be subjects, objects of verbs/prepositions, or complements. Starting with question words like what, when, or why, these clauses mirror statem

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Understanding Gerunds: Grammar Exercises with Emphasis on Gerunds

This content provides exercises and explanations on using gerunds in English grammar. It covers the definition of gerunds, verbs that can be followed by gerunds, and examples showing the use of gerunds after different expressions and verbs. The exercises require supplying gerund forms of verbs and o

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Understanding Yes/No Questions in English Grammar

Yes/No questions in English grammar are essential for communication. These questions have two basic types - Yes/No questions and Wh-questions. Yes/No questions, also known as closed questions, have only two possible responses - Yes or No. To form a Yes/No question, verbs like BE, DO, HAVE, or modal

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Crafting Effective Learning Objectives Using Action Verbs

Crafting measurable learning outcomes involves focusing on student behaviors, using specific action verbs, selecting appropriate assessment methods, and setting clear performance criteria. The checklist provided emphasizes the importance of observable and measurable outcomes, incorporating active ve

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Understanding Irish Verbs: Grammar Basics and Rules

Learn about Irish verbs, including what verbs are, how to conjugate them, the syntax/order of words in sentences, regular and irregular verbs, as well as broad and slender verbs. Explore examples and images to enhance your understanding of Irish grammar.

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Understanding English Modal Verbs: A Visual Guide

Explore the world of English modal verbs through engaging infographics covering must, can, may/might, could, and should. Learn about their usage in sentences and grasp the nuances of expressing ability, permission, obligation, and possibility. Dive into the explanations with visual aids depicting sc

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Understanding Modal Verbs in English Grammar

Explore the nuances of modal verbs in English grammar through opinion, advice, and exercises. Learn how to use modal verbs like should, ought to, can, must, and may in present and future contexts. Enhance your language skills with examples and exercises highlighting the correct usage of modal verbs.

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Understanding Subject-Verb Agreement in Grammar

Subjects and verbs must agree in number to ensure grammatical accuracy. Singular subjects require singular verbs, while plural subjects demand plural verbs. Various rules and examples illustrate how prepositional phrases, word order, and questions can impact subject-verb agreement.

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Understanding Irish Grammar: Past Tense Verbs and Questions

Delve into the intricacies of forming past tense verbs and asking questions in Irish grammar. Learn the rules for changing broad and slender verbs, both one and two syllables long. Discover how to form questions and negatives in the past tense, along with a quick recap of key points for easy referen

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Present Tense Verbs in Irish Grammar: Everyday Usage & Structure

Explore how to form and use present tense verbs in everyday Irish language with 2 to 2-syllable broad verbs, including rules for endings and changes. Learn how to ask questions, form negatives, and practice verbs for buying, hurting, and cycling with clear examples.

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Understanding Active and Passive Voice in English Grammar

Learn about active and passive voice in English grammar with examples, including how to form sentences in different tenses, modal verbs, and the use of past participles. Explore the concept of subjects, verbs, and objects in both active and passive constructions to enhance your language proficiency.

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Mastering Phrasal Verbs with Put: A Comprehensive Guide

Explore the intricate meanings and usage of phrasal verbs with "put" in this detailed guide. From "put forward" to "put up with," discover how to effectively communicate, express feelings, and handle various situations using these essential phrasal verbs.

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Modal Verbs Exercise - Can and Can't Practice Activities

Enhance students' ability to use modal verbs can and can't through engaging exercises focusing on forming questions and short answers. Utilize the provided images to prompt students to complete sentences and questions with appropriate modal verbs.

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Understanding Infinitives and Gerunds in English Grammar

Learn the distinctions between infinitives and gerunds in English grammar. Discover when to use gerunds as subjects, after prepositions, and following verbs of emotions. Identify verbs that require a gerund or an infinitive as their complement based on different contexts. Explore how infinitives are

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Understanding Semantic Properties of Verbs in English Language

Explore the semantic properties of English verbs through various examples and classifications. Discover how verbs like hit, kiss, and touch share common properties, while verbs like make, create, imagine, and build belong to different classes based on their semantic relationships. Delve into the gra

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English Verb Structure Practice

Practice identifying subjects and verbs in sentences featuring the structure of "to be," "to have," and "to do." Learn about verb tenses, including present continuous, past continuous, present perfect, and past perfect. Explore the correct usage of "have," "has," and "had" as both full verbs and aux

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Understanding Directional Verbs in Sign Language

Learn about directional verbs in sign language and how they indicate the subject and object of the verb through movement. Discover common directional verbs, practice creating sentences with them, and understand how pronouns like HE/SHE/IT can be incorporated. Explore how classifiers add directional

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Understanding Verbs: Types and Usage in Grammar

Learn about verbs in grammar through this detailed lesson, covering action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs. Explore examples and practice identifying different types of verbs in sentences. Enhance your understanding of how verbs express action, state of being, and help form complete verb phr

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Understanding Regular and Irregular Verbs in Simple Past Tense

Learn how to form the simple past tense with regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs end in "-ed," while irregular verbs have unique past tense forms. Examples and images illustrate the differences, helping you master past tense verb usage effortlessly.

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Understanding Subject-Verb Agreement in English Grammar

In this multimedia class session, Assistant Head-teacher Uttam Adhikary introduces the concept of subject-verb agreement, emphasizing the importance of matching singular subjects with singular verbs and plural subjects with plural verbs. Through engaging examples and presentations, students will lea

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