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  Sentences, Phrases and Clauses                                                   By  Eguriase S. M. Okaka A sentence is a group of words that makes a complete sense, conveys a message and expresses an ideology. A sentence more or less makes its complete sense by containing a verb um  the finite verb. That is, the action or doing word that defines the word-sense in a sentence. For a start, let’s consider the following expressions or group of words: ·         At the zoo. ·         We sat down. ·         That beautiful girl smiling at us. ·         When I was a child. ·         I used to act like a child. Now, which of the above groups of words are Phrases, Clauses and Sentences? How many sentences are there? Do you know? Which are the sentences? Well, there are only two sentences and they are numbers 2 and 5. Let us now examine them together. ·         At the zoo This group of words makes sense since we know what the zoo means. But the sense is not complete because we

  The Eight Parts Of Speech and the Article By  Eguriase S. M. Okaka   The eight parts of speech are regarded as the foundation stone of your English language. A student who is good at them will find sentence building very easy. It is like building a house, you need a strong foundation. So are these parts of speech helping you to build a strong and firm foundation of the English language?   Having a good knowledge of the eight parts of speech and the Articles will boost your spoken and written language in the sense that you will know the different parts of speech and their various placements in a sentence. At the end of this article you will be able to know the various parts of speech and the functions they play in sentences to build and develop its structures. So let us now look at the parts of speech in details:   ·         Noun ·         Pronoun ·         Adjective ·         Verb ·         Adverb ·         Preposition ·         Conjunction ·         Interje