English Grammar

English Grammar

Grammar is the way we arrange words to make proper sentences. Word-level grammar covers verbs and tenses, nouns, adverbs etc. Sentence-level grammar covers phrases, clauses, reported speech etc.

1. Word-level grammar

9 Parts-of-Speech

These are the words that you use to make a sentence.

Verbs and Verb Tenses
Action verbs, express what is happening (do, work). State verbs express a situation (be, have).

Nouns
Nouns represent people (teacher, Mary), places (town, Asia) and things (table, music).

Adjectives
An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun (big, red, expensive).

Adverbs
Adverbs tell us more about verbs, adjectives or adverbs (loudly, really, extremely).

Determiners
Determiners are words like the, an, this that start a noun phrase.

Prepositions
A preposition expresses the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word (at, in, from).

Pronouns
Pronouns are small words like you, ours, some that can take the place of a noun.

Conjunctions
Conjunctions join two parts of a sentence (and, but, though).

Interjections
Short exclamations with no real grammatical value (ah, dear, er)

2. Sentence-level grammar

Sentence-level grammar covers phrases, clauses, sentences, reported speech, parenthetical expression, grammatical category etc

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