PBI252-Intermediate Grammar-KJ101-7522

Before you do all the activities in this session, please read this handout first :)

The main purpose of using capital letters is to focus the reader’s attention on particular people, places and things. In other words, you are being more specific about what you are referring to.

RELATIVE PRONOUN is one which is used to refer to nouns mentioned previously, whether they are people, places, things, animals, or ideas. Relative pronouns can be used to join two sentences. A relative pronoun is a word that introduces a dependent (or relative) clause and connects it to an independent clause. A clause beginning with a relative pronoun is poised to answer questions such as Which one? How many? or What kind? Who, whom, what, which, and that are all relative pronouns.

WORD ORDER is important: it’s what makes your sentences make sense! So, proper word order is an essential part of writing and speaking—when we put words in the wrong order, the result is a confusing, unclear, and an incorrect sentence.

Find out more about Word Order in this module.

In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning. The boundary between word formation and semantic change can be difficult to define: a new use of an old word can be seen as a new word derived from an old one and identical to it in form.

Find out more about word formation in the module attached.