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Grammar: Noun, Pronoun, and Verb By Eguriase S. M. Okaka I believe that having a good knowledge of the parts of speech gives you a good knowledge of the English language as well. The parts of speech are the foundation stone of your building, if you consider building a house. If your foundation is solid that house will be solid but if the foundation is weak your house will be weak as well. If you know your parts of speech very well you will know your grammar very well. Grammar in general takes it root from parts of speech. Let us remind ourselves once again. The parts of speech include: • Noun • Pronoun • Adjective • Verb • Adverb • Preposition • Conjunction • Interjection and considerably the Articles which also are inclusive amongst them. Do you still remember the parts of speech (that is, the different classes into which we group words). Here is your chance to go over them again. • A verb is a doing word. • An adjective is a description word. • A preposition is a word that ...

TENSES - PRESENT PROGRESSIVE AND PAST PROGRESSIVE BY EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA Tense refers to the time the action of a verb took place or is taking place whether in the present or in the past or in the future. We identified the various types of tenses and how they are used in everyday speech or conversation. However we shall concentrate more on the three basic types of tenses- the present, past and future tense-in the progressive form. In this article, we shall refresh our memory on what we have learnt before. Present progressive The present progressive tense expresses actions that happen at the time of speaking. We also use it to say someone does something every time, always, regularly, and so on? Look at these sentences. They are all simple sentences. • Olu sings beautifully. • I go to school every weekday. • I watched cartoons every Saturday morning at 7 o’clock. • She lives close by. • Plants take their food from the sun. All the sentences above are written in the present tense, bu...