‘Catherine ran the street the road’. Yes, that is a sentence of course, but rather a meaningless one. In order to make it sound clear, you need to identify the missing elements. It’s the prepositions that are missing from the sentence. You might have come across them frequently for sure. …

When you build a house, you should ensure that the base is firm and the foundation is properly cemented. Similar is the case while dealing with the parts of speech. You have to get the concepts of grammar right in order to build your sentences without errors. The words have …

Consider these sentences for instance. ‘He went into the stable to feed the horses.’ ‘The incident happened few months ago, he got over it now.’ You would wonder why the words ‘into’ and ‘over’ are underlined. Well, they are referred to as prepositions, which are important parts of speech, without …

Helping verbs, otherwise known as auxiliary verbs, are those whose importance can be underestimated easily. As the word itself signifies, they provide help to the sentence by appearing before the action verbs and linking verbs. You need not get all worked-up with the thought that you won’t be able to …

Let’s Go! This is one of the common things we all say and this is the simplest example that can explain an apostrophe. Apostrophes, the commas that seem to hang rather aimlessly at the head of some words, are important punctuation devices in the English language. Whether you speak or …

A colon is a punctuation mark which has two equally sized dots placed vertically above each other. This punctuation marks discontinuity in a grammatical construction and the pause it introduces is of intermediate length – something in between a semicolon and a full stop. It aids in notifying the reader …

Running sentences into one another, without punctuation or with improper use of punctuation, is called a fused or a run on sentence. Comma splices are one of the most common forms of run-on sentences that are joined inappropriately using commas. Commas are not meant to join two main clauses all …

The role of punctuation is to render a lucid direction to the readers so that they can effortlessly read through a prose, poetry or any text written to impart some information. Punctuation obviates ambiguity and distortions of meaning, at the same time providing a breathing-break while reciting. Punctuation, such as …

नेताजी शब्द का प्रयोग स्वतंत्रता से पूर्व उस देशभक्त के लिए किया जाता था जो अपना स्वार्थ, अपनी सुख-सुविधा त्यागकर, अपने परिवार की चिन्ता न कर, अपने प्राणों की पपरवाह न कर देश को स्वतंत्र करने के लिए अपना सर्वस्व त्यागने के लिए तत्पर रहता था। वे चरित्रवान्, निष्ठावान्, देश …

मनुष्य के बाह्य क्रिया-कलाप उसकी आन्तरिक भावनाओं के ही प्रतिरूप और परिणाम होते हैं। जब मनुष्य के हृदय में सतोगुण का उदय होता है, सद्विचार और पावन भावनाओं का संचार होता है तो वह सुकर्म करता है, ऐसे कार्य करता है जिनसे मानवजाति का भला हो, विश्व में शान्ति, सुख, …