Understanding the meaning and usage of the different parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections) is the main step in learning grammar. It helps in the systematic study of the fundamentals of grammar, which in turn will help in the coordination of language skills needed for particular patterns of expression. It is learned that the coordination between subject and verb is of the utmost importance while building a sentence in the writing process or in our conversation.
While declarative and imperative sentences end with a period (full stop), interrogative sentences have a question mark (?), and exclamatory sentences have an exclamation point (!) at the end of the sentences.
Important supporting elements in an award are sentences and clauses. Phrases can function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. Sentences can be main clauses and subordinate clauses. Understanding and identifying different subordinate clauses such as noun clause, adjective clause and adverbial clause would allow students to easily differentiate and build simple, compound and complex sentences. This in turn will help improve writing and communication skills.
Again, the change from active voice to passive voice and the importance of its use are also covered in the unit, while changing the active voice to passive voice does not change the meaning and tense of the sentence.
It is also important to understand and learn the different degrees of comparison and their appropriate use in context, which is adequately covered in this unit. Also, the introduction of direct and indirect speech is a connection to the way we converse.
It is learned that while we report any accurately written or spoken sentence (dialogue), we have to make some changes to our report. The most important change is that of distance. By converting direct speech to indirect speech, the times and distance change, but the meaning of the sentence remains the same.
Finally, the question tag and its use are learned. They are essential in conversational English. Once we learn its correct use, it is easy to develop fluency in our everyday conversations.