Improve your understanding of adjectives and adverbs in English with this lesson from Oxford Online English. Do you know the difference between 'hard' and 'hardly'? In this lesson, learn how to use adjectives and...

You probably already know that adverbs are words that modify adjectives, verbs, other adverbs, phrases, and entire sentences. And conjunctive adverbs, also called adverbial conjunctions, connectors, connective adverbs, linkers, linking...

This video is a lesson on identifying and using adverbial phrases and clauses to add precision and clarity to writing. The teacher explains the difference between phrases and clauses, and provides examples of prepositions and infinitives...

In this video, the teacher explains how writers use prepositional phrases to convey specific meaning in their writing. The teacher provides examples and guides students in practicing adding prepositional phrases to sentences. The video...

When you want to describe a noun you need to use adjectives, relative clauses or adjectival phrases. The latter ones are phrases whose main word is an adjective. There can be three types of adjectival phrases. Those that use a present...

In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...

Adjectives modify nouns and noun phrases. Adverbs modify other adverbs, adjectives or verbs. In this lesson, Mr. P. will explain the difference with easy examples. At the end of the lesson there will be an exercise for students to...

Prepositional phrases are a number of words made up of a preposition and its object. The object could be a noun, pronoun, gerund or even a clause. Mr. P. will explain how prepositional phrases can act as adjectives or adverbs but also...

A group of words that may take the place of a part of speech is called a phrase. A phrase is a group of connected words, not containing a subject and a predicate. In other words, a phrase does not have a subject and verb. (If a group of...

A subordinate or dependent clause that acts as a noun is called a noun (or substantive) clause. When a simple noun is not enough to represent a person, place, thing, or idea, we use a noun cl

ause.

A noun clause...

The next in a series on the grammar of the Romance languages. This video introduces the structure of basic phrases and sentences. I share a lot of information here, so please pause or go back if you ever need time to think or read all of...

This video is a helpful guide for writers to understand and fix misplaced and dangling modifiers in their sentences. The teacher explains the concept of modifiers and provides examples of how they can be misplaced or dangling. Viewers...

An introduction and explanation of phrasal verbs.

All the theory you

need!

Even if you already use phrasal verbs, it's easy to forget the basics, so this English tutorial is appropriate for intermediate as well as...

The next in a series on the basic grammar of the Romance languages. This one introduces adjectives & adverbs. Vulgar Latin & Romance adjectives agree with the number and gender of the described noun: *bonu lupu "good wolf", *bonas ideas...

In this video, you will learn about the German question word “wie” and its variations. The word “wie” generally translates to “how,” and it can be used alone or with an adjective or adverb to inquire about the degree to which something...

In this lesson, Mr. P./Marc will delve into what it's called "inversion". There are five types of inversion: 1.When we make questions - 2. With negative adverbs or adverbial phrases - 3. Conditional sentences - 4. With adjuncts or...

Da- and Wo-Compounds in German can be difficult to understand, but today's video will show you how to use all of them and which prepositions can't use the da- and wo-compounds. This includes the following da-compounds: dafür, darum,...

Expletive constructions are phrases or sentences that begin with “There are,” “There is,” “It is,” “It was", "Here comes", etc. The verb “to be” is also part of many of these uninspired sentences. In this lesson, Mr. P. will give an easy...