Jeremy's Family Relationships

Jeremy's Family

• Jeremy is the youngest member of his family.
• He has two older brothers and one older sister.
• The age difference between Jeremy and his siblings is at least seven years.
• Jeremy's siblings have always treated him with extra care because of their age difference.
• Initially, this made Jeremy feel distant from his siblings as they seemed like parental figures to him.
• As Jeremy grew older, he came to appreciate the love and care his siblings showed him.

Parts of Speech

• Nouns are classified into proper nouns (e.g. John, London), common nouns (e.g. dog, city), collective nouns (e.g. family, herd), and abstract nouns (e.g. happiness, freedom).
• Verbs are divided into action verbs (e.g. run, jump), linking verbs (e.g. be, seem), and helping verbs (e.g. will, would, shall).
• Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns and can be quantitative (e.g. three, five, many).
• Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs and provide information about manner, time, place, frequency, or degree.
• Pronouns replace nouns in a sentence (e.g. he, she, it, they).
• Prepositions show relationships between words (e.g. in, on, at, by).
• Conjunctions connect words, phrases, or clauses (e.g. and, but, or, so).
• Interjections express emotions or feelings (e.g. oh, wow, ouch).

Sentence Structure

• Independent clauses are complete sentences with a subject and verb.
• Dependent clauses cannot stand alone and often start with a subordinating conjunction (e.g. because, although, if).
• Sentence types include declarative (statements), interrogative (questions), imperative (commands), and exclamatory (expressions of strong emotions).

Tenses

• Present tense describes current actions or states (e.g. I am writing, she is studying).
• Past tense describes completed actions or states (e.g. I wrote, they studied).
• Future tense describes future actions or states (e.g. I will write, they will study).
• Perfect tenses include present perfect (e.g. I have written), past perfect (e.g. I had written), and future perfect (e.g. I will have written).
• Progressive tenses include present progressive (e.g. I am writing), past progressive (e.g. I was writing), and future progressive (e.g. I will be writing).