English Grammar Learning

The grammatical rules covered by this guide are categorized below. English grammar is not always easy

to understand, but by using this guide you should be able to remind yourself of the rules of English

usage and speak or write English with confidence.

• Nouns

1. Gendered nouns

2. Singular and plural nouns including irregular plural nouns

3. Countable and uncountable nouns

4. Definite pronouns

5. Indefinite pronouns

6. Compound nouns

7. Capitalization rules for nouns

8. Nationalities in English

9. Forming the possessive

• Adjectives

1. Learn about adjectives in English

2. Definition of adjectives

3. Recognizing and placing adjectives in sentences

4. The order of adjectives when using several in a row

5. Forming comparative and superlative adjectives

6. Using adjectives to compare attributes

7. Adjectives describing equal quantities

8. Adjectives describing unequal quantities

• Adverbs

1. Adverbs in English

2. What adverbs are and what they are for

3. Forming adverbs from adjectives

4. Forming the comparative and the superlative of adverbs

5. Adverbs of place

6. Adverbs of time

7. Adverbs of manner

8. Adverbs of degree

9. Adverbs of certainty

10. Viewpoint and commenting adverbs

11. Relative adverbs

12. Interrogative adverbs

• Determiners

1. Determiners in English

2. Definite article: the

3. Indefinite articles: a, an

4. Demonstratives: this, that, these, those

5. Pronouns and possessive determiners: my, your, his, her, its, our, their

6. Quantifiers: a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough

7. Numbers: one, ten, thirty

8. Distributives: all, both, half, either, neither, each, every

9. Difference words: other, another

10. Pre-determiners: such, what, rather, quite

• Verbs & verb tenses

1. Present Simple Tense

2. Present Continuous Tense

3. Present Perfect Tense

4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense

5. Past Simple Tense

6. Past Continuous Tense

7. Past Perfect Tense

8. Past Perfect Continuous Tense

9. Future Simple Tense

10. Future Continuous Tense

11. Future Perfect Tense

12. Future Perfect Continuous tense

• Speech

1. Direct and indirect speech

2. Tense changes when reporting speech

3. Changing time and place references when reporting speech

4. Question forms and reporting speech

5. Verbs used for reporting speech in English

6. Reporting orders, requests, and suggestions

7. Reporting hopes, intentions, and promises

• Punctuation

1. Punctuation rules in English

2. The period(or full stop in British English)

3. The comma

4. The exclamation mark

5. The question mark

6. The colon

7. The semicolon

8. The quotation mark

9. The apostrophe

10. The hyphen and the dash

11. Parentheses and brackets

• Clauses

1. Independent Clause. The independent clause is the main clause in the sentence.

2. Subordinate Clause.

3. Adjective Clause.

4. Adverbial Clause.

5. Noun Clause.

6. Relative Clause.

7. Conditional Clause