In the following example the word "weather" can be used in about eight different contexts and be used to mean, define or explain about thirty different situations or conditions. To properly study the English language, students require background information, technical grammar definitions and context.
"Weather"
As a Noun
Definition 1. the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as characterized by sunshine, moisture, temperature, precipitation, and other variables.
Similar Words: elements, climate
Definition 2. unpleasant, turbulent, or violent atmospheric conditions.
Example: We needed shelter from the weather.
Similar Words: gale, elements, blow, windstorm , storm
As a Transitive Verb
Inflected Forms: weathered, weathering, weathers
Definition 1. to dry, season, or modify by exposing to weather.
Similar Words: season , dry
Definition 2. to discolor, deteriorate, or harm by exposing to weather.
Similar Words wash , rot , erode, deteriorate
Definition 3. to endure past the end of; survive.
Example Their marriage weathered the hard times.
Synonyms: withstand , survive, stand, outlast , endure , ride out
Similar Words: overcome, surmount, outlive, sustain, brave
As an Intransitive Verb
Definition 1. to resist deterioration when exposed to weather.
Example: The colour has been able to weather the intense sun shine.
Definition 2. to display the effects of exposure (deterioration or change in color)
Similar Words: rot, corrode, fade, deteriorate
As part of Idiomatic Expressions
Phrase used as an idiom: "under the weather" = sick or not well
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Introduction to Sentence Structure
Introduction to Sentence Structure
The two fundamental parts of every English sentence are the subject and the predicate. A simple sentence can also be described as a group of words expressing a complete thought. Subjects can be described as the component that performs the action described by the Predicate.
Subject + predicate = sentenceA simple sentence or independent clause must have a verb. A verb shows action or state of being. The subject tells who or what about the verb.
Subject + verb = sentenceSentence Structure Vocabulary
The sentence format consists of a subject and a predicate.
The subject names the topic and the predicate tells about the subject.
A sentence with one subject and one predicate is called a simple sentence.
The receiver of actions is called the object.
A group of words used as a single value without subject or predicate is called a phrase.
A clause is a group of words with a subject and predicate.
Principal or independent clauses can form sentences.
A compound sentence contains two or more principal clauses.
A clause which cannot form a sentence is called a dependant clause.
A complex sentence contains a principal clause and one or more dependant or subordinate clauses.
A compound-complex sentence contains two principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses.
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Past English Tenses
SIMPLE PAST
Simple past, form for regular verbs: base+ed
Example; walked, showed, watched, played, smiled, stopped
Simple past for irregular verbs.
Simple past, be, have, do:
Subject Verb
Be Have Do
I was had did
You were had did
He was had did
We were had did
They were had did
Affirmative
I was in Canada last year
She had a headache yesterday.
We did our homework last week.
Negative
We didn't do our homework last night.
They weren't in Canada last summer.
We hadn't any money.
We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.
We didn't do our exercises this morning.
Interrogative
Were they in Vancouver last January?
Did you have a bicycle when you were a boy?
Did you do much climbing in British Columbia?
Simple past with regular verbs: verb + ed
Affirmative
I washed
Negative
I did not wash.
Interrogative
Did she arrive?
Interrogative negative
Didn't you like?
Example: to walk, simple past.
Affirmative Negative Interrogative
I walked I didn't walk Did I walk?
You walked You didn't walk Did you walk?
They walked They didn't walk Did they walk?
For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs in the simple past, always use the auxiliary 'did''.
Examples:
Simple past, irregular verbs 'to go'
He went to a gym last night.
interrogative form
Did he go to the club last night?
negative form
He didn't go to bed early last night.
Examples: Simple past, irregular verbs "to give"
We gave her a doll for her birthday.
They didn't give John their copy.
Did Barry give you my report?
Examples: Simple past, irregular verbs "to come"
My parents came to visit me last year.
We didn't come because it was snowing.
Did she come to your open house last week?
Simple past function is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past.
Examples:
John Cabot sailed to Canada in 1498.
My father died last year.
He lived in Calgary in 1986.
We crossed Lake Superior yesterday.
You always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions.
Examples:
Yesterday, I arrived in Montreal.
She finished her work at five o'clock.
We saw a good play last week.
I went to the hockey game last night.
She played the piano when she was a child.
He sent me a report six months ago.
Peter left five minutes ago
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