TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS 🕘

Transitive verbs are action verbs that have an object to receive that action. They transfer the action from the subject (the person or thing that does the action) to an object (the thing that has the action done to it).

Formula: 

Subject + transitive verb + object 

       I     +          love         +   you!

How can you know if a verb is Transitive and needs an object? 

Besides the use of a dictionary, use this simple trick:
If the idea that you want to explain in English can answer the questions "Who?" or "What?", your verb is transitive!

Intransitive verbs are the ones that do not have an object receiving the action. Usually, intransitive verbs are verbs that have to deal with movement of bodies or things  through space ( the environment). So they often instead of taking an object they use prepositional phrases, adverbs or nothing at all.

If you ask "Who?" or "What?" and there is not an answer to the question that means that there's not an object, ergo, an intransitive verb!

Formula: 

Subject + intransitive verb

    He    +     ran 

 *Even if the sentence is followed by "across the street" it still doesn't answer the question who or what.

♍This topic is quite easy once you get the hang of it, having in mind the tip of "Who" and "what" and practicing constantly is the key! IMO, grammar is not the most exciting or fun part of learning but I know the importance of it. For that reason you need to practice extremely often, to not forget things and to reassure yourself of what you know!
               

PUNCTUATION MARKS ❔❕

  

Punctuation has the role if helping to fully understand ideas making them easier to read. Punctuation symbols usually have vey simple rules to use them correctly!

There are actually 14 of them! 

*The period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, quotation marks, and ellipsis. 

Some of the most used symbols are:

💜The period: primarily used to indicate the end of a sentence. It appears as a single dot on the bottom line of the text, and it comes immediately after the last word of the sentence without a space.
💜The comma:  indicates a small break, it separates words, clauses, or ideas within a sentence.

💜The Semicolon: is to join two independent clauses without using a conjunction like and.

💜The colon: is used to separate two independent clauses when the second explains or illustrates the first

💜The question mark: is used in writing at the end of a phrase or sentence to show that it is a question.

💜The exclamation mark:  is used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume (shouting), or to show emphasis, and often marks the end of a sentence.

♍ This is interesting! It is always nice when you get a text and understand everything because is well-written. 👽 

FANBOYS👦

lemme ✨𝓮𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾✨

Those are conjugations: words that connect other words, phrases, or sentences.  There are three types of conjugations: 

🔮Coordinating Conjunctions: join two words, phrases, or independent clauses, which are parallel in structure.

🔮Correlative Conjunctions: to show a contrast or to compare the equal parts of a sentence.

🔮Subordinating Conjunctions: joins elements of an unparallel sentence structure. These elements are usually a dependent clause and an independent clause.

FANBOYS is an acronym for the coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so!

                                                                                                     

                                                                         

♍ Mnemonic techniques are a blessing. The use of acronyms is a cool and easy way to learn and remember, specially with kids!

SENTENCE PATTERNS👀

 For this topic I made this!

♍This topic is extremely confusing to me, to master this you really need a lot of practice, reading and patience! 

FRAGMENTS AND RUN-ONS🧩🏃‍♀️

A complete sentence has three components:

1. A subject (the actor in the sentence)
2. A predicate (the verb or action)
3. A complete thought (it can stand alone and make sense—it’s independent

FRAGMENTS🧩

A fragment is an incomplete sentence because is missing one of these parts.

Example: 

Began 30 minutes ago.  (What began?

We've got a predicate but no subject, this is a fragment.

THE MOVIE BEGAN 30 MINUTES AGO.

That is a sentence!

A tip form the University of North Carolina: 

How do you find and fix your fragments? Remember the basics: subject, verb, and complete thought. If you can recognize those things, you’re halfway there. Then, scan your sentences for subordinating conjunctions. If you find one, first identify the whole chunk of the dependent clause (the subject and verb that go with the subordinator), and then make sure they’re attached to an independent clause.

RUN-ONS🏃

A run-on sentence is when you write two complete sentences but they are connected improperly (without using a coordinating conjunction or proper punctuation).

Example:

 I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.

How to fix them?

Use a period: 

I love to write papers. I would write one every day if I had the time.

Use a semicolon: 

 I love to write papers; I would write one every day if I had the time.

Use a subordinating conjunction: 

Because I love to write papers, I would write one every day if I had the time.

♍Fragments and run-ons seem like beginner problems, but they happen more often than you think! Always check what you write, look for this kind of mistakes.

I know for a fact that I will screw texts up with these. 😗✌