Basic English Grammer

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The document covers many important English grammar topics such as parts of speech, verb tenses, sentence structure, clauses and phrases.

The document discusses nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and determiners as some of the main parts of speech.

Some of the main verb tenses covered include the simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, and future tenses.

Basic English Grammer

English Tenses (Active Forms)

Simple Present (Present Simple)


Present Progressive / Continuous
Simple Past (Past Simple)
Past Progressive / Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Progressive / Continuous
Past Perfect Simple
Future Simple
Future Progressive / Continuous
Future Perfect
Regular Verbs
Irregular Verbs
Choosing the Correct Verb Tense
Less Common Tenses

Active and Passive Voice

Passive Voice
Non Passives
Stative Passives
Passive with Get
Get Married/Be Married
Sentences, Clauses and Phrases

Yes/No Questions
Wh- Questions
Complex Question Formation
Subject-Verb Agreement
Conjunctions and Linking Words
Basic Sentence Structure
Building Sentences
Sentence Structure and Punctuation
Coordinators
Subordinators
Sentence Connectors
Relative Clauses
Reduced Relative Clauses
Reducing Adverbial Clauses
Restrictive Clauses
Noun Clauses
Clauses and Phrases
Introductory Phrases
Participal Phrases
Structure Words
Parenthetical Statements
Absolutes

Conditionals and Wishes

Real Conditionals
Present Unreal Conditionals
Past Conditionals
Present Wishes
Past Wishes
Hope vs. Wish
Infinitive and the -ing form

Go + Ving
Gerunds
Infinitives
To V or Not To V

Adjectives

Adjectives
Adjective Order

Nouns, pronouns

Collective Nouns
Count/Non-Count Nouns
Singular vs. Plural
Plurals and Nationalities
Noun and Verb Phrases
Pronouns
Possessives
There is/are
Noun Clauses

Verbs

Regular Verbs
Irregular Verbs
Problems with Verbs
Choosing the Correct Verb Tense
The Verb "Be"
Non-Action Verbs
Noun and Verb Phrases
Action Vs. Status
Causative Verbs
Verbs of Perception
Semantic Verb Pairs
Adverbs

Adverbs
Frequency Adverbs
Adverbs and Prepositions
Intensifiers

Prepositions

Prepositions
Prepositions of Location
Prepositions: In, On, and At
Adverbs and Prepositions
Prepositions and Time Words
Prepositions and Subordinators
Verb and Preposition Collocations
Preposition Collocations with Be

Subjects, Objects

Sentence Subjects
Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement with Quantifiers
Indirect Objects
Object Complements
Types of Subjects and Objects

Modal Verbs

Basic Modals
Past Modal
Common Modal Usage
Have to - Necessity or Obligation
Modals Chart

This, my, some, a lot of, etc.

This, That, These, Those


Quantifiers
Some and Any
Most / Almost
Dangling Modifiers

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