BASICS

[plural] [noun]The basics are the simplest and most important facts, ideas or things connected with something.Pat has promised to teach me the basics of sailing, but I haven't got time at the moment.The country's biggest supermarket chain is to cut its prices on 500 items, ranging from basics, such as coffee and eggs, to luxury goods.If you get back to basics, you start to give your attention to the simplest and most important matters after ignoring them for a while.Electric guitars dominated her last album, but for her latest one she has got back to basics and used only acoustic instruments.Teaching the correct use of the apostrophe is part of a new back-to-basics campaign to raise standards in grammar, punctuation and spelling.