The English Alphabet

The English alphabet has 26 letters, which is made up of consonants and vowels.

       ║ Upper ║ Lower ║

║   1  ║   A   ║   a   ║
║   2  ║   B   ║   b   ║
║   3  ║   C   ║   c   ║
║   4  ║   D   ║   d   ║
║   5  ║   E   ║   e   ║
║   6  ║   F   ║   f   ║
║   7  ║…

Punctuation Marks

There are a number of punctuation marks used in English.

Full stops

Full stops, also known as periods, are used to end a sentence.

This is a short sentence. 

Exclamation marks

Parts of a Sentence

Sentences can be split up using the following examples.

Nouns

A noun names specific things.

coat
chair
animal

Proper Nouns

Sentence Structure

English uses a Subject–Verb–Object Model (SOV).

For example:

Joan cleaned her room

Joan is the subject, cleaned is the verb and room is the object.

She sang a song.

She is the subject, sang is the verb and song is the object.

How To Use Commas

Commas are used to separate parts of a sentence.

Lists

I like apples, pears, bananas and oranges. 

Joining clauses

After dinner, we went to the theatre.