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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Recommended grammar links
- English grammar section on Cambridge Dictionary (British English)
- Grammar pages at Purdue Online Writing Lab (American English)
- Grammar page at Wikipedia