Learn English by Sijo Francis

All over the world language serves the purpose of expressing one’s idea effectively.  Someone asks and somebody answers.  In short, a language means a set of questions and answers. It is same in English also.  In order to learn English you should learn to ask questions and should be ready to give answers.   These saying or asking is to be done in sentence which is an arrangement of words in  a meaningful way. There is a particular way arranging words in English.  This order is Subject + Verb + Object, S V O for short.

In case of questions, they are easy to frame and use. A direct question always begins with a helping verb or a question word.

A word about the subject, verb and object:  when we speak we always speak about someone or something.  This ‘someone’ or ‘something’ is called the subject.  What we speak about the subject is generally called verb. It is an action showing word. Eg. Do, come, sleep, play, eat, drink ….

What we speak of the action done by the doer is called object.  Every verb need not have an object.  It is the answer to the question whom or what asked to the verb of a sentence. Eg. Revathi ate a mango.  When we ask, Revathi ate what? We get the answer ‘mango’. This ‘mango‘ is the object of the sentence. Let’s consider another example. ‘I gave her a gift. (I gave her what? – a gift –) object is gift. (I gave whom? – her –)  so in this sentence both gift and her are objects. You may also notice that an object is always a noun.

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