Grammar, Plain and Simple

A participle is a verb form of a word that acts like an adjective. Words ending in -ing look like verbs, but sometimes -ing words act like an adjective. The barking dog was very noisy. The word barking looks like… Read more289. Using a Participle as an Adjective at the Beginning of a Sentence

We have three articles in the English language: a, an, theEach of these words goes right in front of a noun, just like other adjectives. Use a and an to describe a noun in a general way.Bob ate an apple.Sam… Read more277. Articles are Adjectives

Color words are adjectives. We can modify a noun by using a color word in front of the noun.I saw a red bird in the bushes.The bride will wear a white dress at her wedding. My friend lives in that… Read more273. Adjectives Tell the Color and Age of Nouns

An adjective goes in front of a noun to tell more about the noun. We say that an adjective modifies a noun. The mail carrier delivered a large box. The word box is a noun. The word large is an… Read more271. Adjectives Tell the Size of a Noun

A collective noun has many pieces inside of it, but the pieces are working together as one unit, so we write about a collective noun as if it is one thing. We consider a collective noun to be a singular… Read more263. Collective Nouns are Usually Singular

A singular noun is a noun that names one thing. dogcatballbook A plural noun names more than one thing. Make a plural noun by adding –s to the end of the noun.dogscatsballsbooks Here’s how we use a singular noun in… Read more256. Singular and Plural Nouns