As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...

How well do you know your verbs? You may know verbs as the part of speech that describe an action, but linking verbs play a different role in a sentence. Like helping verbs, linking verbs are a type ...

1 Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Public Health, Temple University, United States Introduction. Many studies have focused on ...

Grammatical errors and poor sentence structure can tear your writing apart. You’ll only need a subject and predicate to form a complete sentence but adding other parts to your sentence can give it ...

The five patterns illustrated below provide the basis for all other sentence structures: that is, other kinds of sentences are transformations of these basic patterns. Though the above sentences are ...