English grammar explained in plain language simple enough to be understood.
Most singular nouns change their spelling when they become plural.However, some nouns look exactly the same whether they are singular or plural. Here is a list for you to study: one moose – two moose I saw two moose in… Read more259. Irregular Plural Nouns that Don’t Change
When two nouns are connected to make one new word, we call that new word a compound noun or a compound word. Here are some examples of compound words:dog and house = doghousecamp and fire = campfirenews and paper =… Read more266. Compound Nouns
A compound noun is two nouns pushed together to make one word. Usually the two words become one word without a space between. When we leave a space in a compound word, we call that an open compound noun. The… Read more267. Open Compound Nouns
Sometimes a compound noun is two words connected with a hyphen. (-)A hyphenated compound noun looks like this: self-esteem The two nouns, self and esteem, joined with a hyphen make a new word.This new compound word has a meaning all… Read more268. Hyphenated Compound Nouns
We’ve talked all week about compound nouns. Yesterday we studied hyphenated compound nouns. It’s important to know that some hyphenated compound words are not compound nouns. These hyphenated compound words are used as adjectives to modify a noun: two-week vacationten-minute… Read more269. Other Hyphenated Compound Words
Section A: Find the compound word in each sentence below.1. He turned the doorknob and opened the door.2. I used a thumbtack to hang up the poster.3. Be sure to pick up the dry-cleaning today.4. Dad will stop at the… Read more270. Practice with Compound Words
The word contraction means “shortening” or “becoming smaller.” We make a contraction by shortening two words into one word. Many contractions are made with the adverb not. Here are some examples:do not = don’tdoes not = doesn’tdid not = didn’tshould… Read more331. Contractions with Not
We talked yesterday about contractions with the adverb not. do not = don’tdoes not = doesn’tcan not = can’t For each of these contractions, we bumped the two words together and took out the o in not. Here is one… Read more332. Contraction for Will Not
Contractions are words formed by pushing two words together to make one word. Today we’ll talk about contractions made by putting a pronoun and an existence verb together. The first letter of the verb gets bumped out, replaced by an… Read more333. Contractions With Pronouns
Sometimes we make contractions with pronouns and the helping verb will. When you push the two words together, the letters wi get bumped out. Contractions with will look like this:I will = I’llyou will = you’llwe will = we’llthey will… Read more334. More Contractions With Pronouns