Advanced Tags in English Language – How to Use Them Correctly

Using advanced tags in English language can be very confusing to some people. As a student, you might have encountered many difficulties when you wanted to use them correctly in your speech or writings. Have you ever wondered what they are? Do you want to learn how to use them properly? These are the questions that many learners find themselves asking when they need to write or speak English fluently, and when they start off with this language, it becomes even more challenging to understand these advanced tags because they were not taught well in the beginning stages of learning the language.

Basic Adjectives

Here are some adjectives commonly used to describe people's personal qualities. They all have the same basic function: modifying a noun or pronoun.

Comparative and superlative adjectives

There are three adjectives that can be formed into a comparative or a superlative form, and these are good, better, and best. They all take the form comparative adjective + -er. To make the word better, for example, you would simply add an 'e' to the word good.

Definite article, possessive nouns, demonstrative pronouns

One of the most frequently misused tags is the indefinite determiner a. To make this part of speech work, use a when it precedes a singular word or series. You can use it with plurals as well, but you must precede it with a count. For example, I took a pen and a pencil. This makes sense because there's one pen and one pencil--not many pens and pencils.

Noun modifiers (articles, adjectives, prepositions)

Take a look at the following sentence: The food tasted great. What does great modify?

The word great is modifying the word tasted. This word is an adverb because it describes how something was done or performed and often implies a high degree. When used with other adjectives such as, strong, weak, bad, good, etc., it has different meanings. Below are three sentences illustrating this example:

1) The chicken tastes great!

Noun comparisons with as, than, then

Adjective + Adverb = Comparative - She's smarter than her sister. Adjective + Enough = Comparative Equivalent - He is strong enough for the job. Adjective + More than = Superlative - The dog had more energy than the cat.

If you want to say something is *very* as adjectives and adverbs, use as. For example: He ran as fast as he could. If you want to say that one thing does something more than another, compare them using more or less. For example: The airplane flew faster than the helicopter.

Adverbs of frequency (always / sometimes / never)

When describing the frequency of an action, use the adverb always for things that happen every time, sometimes for things that happen often, but not all of the time, and never for actions that never occur. For example:

-She always leaves her shoes at home. -I sometimes take a nap before dinner. -The boy never eats anything except apples and milk.

Verb tenses

There are three ways you can use an advance tag. The first is when you have a main verb that happens at the same time as a secondary event. For example, I am walking while singing. The second way is when your verb takes place before or after another event. For example, I have walked all day. Finally, if you want the past tense of your verb to happen before the main verb, then do had followed by the past participle.

More advanced grammar points

An advanced noun is the plural form of a word. A prefix is an extra word or group of letters that can be added before, within, or after the main part of a word to change its meaning. Pluralizing prefixes are said when adding these plurals. Adverbs are words used to provide more information about verbs and adjectives.