Optimistic Versus Pessimistic
How you view the world around you and the events that take place determines whether you’re an optimistic person or a pessimistic person. An optimistic person may be referred to Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Basic English
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English by Patrick Carpen: Welcome English by Patrick Carpen was designed not just to teach English, but also to inspire a love of English Language and Literature on the impressionable Continue Reading →
Welcome
English by Patrick Carpen: The Difference Today, there are so many mass-produced websites out there, filled with slabber-dash, user-generated, ambiguous and sometimes highly inaccurate content, that it would seem like Continue Reading →
The Subject Pronoun “I”
I had a hard time teaching the subject pronoun “I” to my Grade 9 students some days back. Why? Because this pronoun “replaces” something that is almost NEVER used. So Continue Reading →
The Pronoun
What is the Pronoun? The pronoun is one of the eight parts of speech of the English Language. The pronoun takes the place of a noun. A noun names something. Continue Reading →
The Apposition
The apposition is a word or word team that gives additional information about a noun or pronoun in a sentence. Here’s an example: Mr. Perry, a university professor, will be Continue Reading →
The Preposition
A preposition is a word or word team placed before a noun or pronoun to show its relationship to some other noun, pronoun or verb in a sentence. Example: under Continue Reading →
The Basics
For foundation studies of the English Language, you will learn that there are eight parts of speech: the noun, the verb, the pronoun, the adverb, the adjective, the preposition, the Continue Reading →
Basic English
Basic English is written with the alien from outer space in mind: someone who comes to our planet knowing absolutely nothing about our languages or cultures. It covers in depth Continue Reading →
The Simple Sentence
You may have heard that there are four types or kinds of sentences, but there are actually eight. That is because sentences are classified in two ways: By structure: simple, Continue Reading →