Grammar Library

1) Pronouns

• Overview: Pronouns

• Personal Pronouns

  • Subject Pronouns

  • Object Pronouns

• Reflexive Pronouns

• Demonstrative Pronouns

• Emphatic Pronouns

• Interrogative Pronouns

• Possessive Pronouns

• Indefinite Pronouns

• Dummy Pronouns

• Reciprocal Pronouns

• Relative Pronouns

• Impersonal Pronouns

• Nominal Relative Pronouns

• Archaic Pronouns

• Distributive Pronouns

2) Tenses

• Overview: Tenses and Aspects

• Present Simple

• Past Simple

• Future Simple

• Present Continuous

• Past Continuous

• Future Continuous

• Present Perfect

• Present Perfect Continuous

• Past Perfect

• Past Perfect Continuous

• Future Perfect

• Future Perfect Continuous

• Future with “going to”

• Past with “going to”

• Talking about the Present

• Talking about the Past

• Talking about the Future

• Aspects

3) Nouns

• Overview: Nouns

• Proper and Common Nouns

• Countable and Uncountable Nouns

• Singular and Plural Nouns

• Plural-Only Nouns

• Collective Nouns

• Abstract and Concrete Nouns

• Gender-Specific Nouns

• Noun Modifiers

• Possessive Form of Nouns

• Compound Nouns

• Gerunds

• Verbal Nouns

• Nominal Adjectives

• Noun Clauses

• Gerund Phrases

4) Verbs and Voices

• Overview: Verbs

• Regular and Irregular Verbs

• Actions and States

• Auxiliary Verbs

• Light Verbs

• Transitivity

  • Intransitive Verbs

  • Linking Verbs

  • Mono-transitive Verbs

  • Ditransitive Verbs

  • Complex Transitive Verbs

• Ergative Verbs

• Catenative Verbs

• Causatives

• Reflexive Verbs

• Phrasal Verbs

• Voices

  • Active Voice

  • Passive Voice

• Archaic Verb Conjugation

• Be

• Do

5) Moods

• Overview: Moods and Modality

• Declarative Mood

• Imperative Mood

• Subjunctive Mood

• Interrogative Mood

• Exclamatory Mood

• Conditional Mood

  • Zero Conditional

  • Conditional I

  • Conditional II

  • Conditional III

  • Mixed Conditional

6) Modals and Semi-modals

• Overview: Modals

• Can and Could

• May and Might

• Will and Would

• Shall and Should

• Must and Have to

• Can, May, Should (contrast and use)

• Semi-modals

  • Ought to and Had Better

  • Dare and Need

  • Used to

• Meanings and Uses with Modality

  • Prediction

  • Willingness

  • Abilities

  • Permission

  • Possibilities

  • Necessity

  • Advice

  • Deduction

  • Habits

  • Offers

  • Requests

  • Assumptions

• Modal Expressions

• Modals in Indirect Speech

7) Adjectives

• Overview: Adjectives

• Adjective Placement and Order

• Attributive and Predicative Adjectives

• Postpositive Adjectives

• Descriptive and Relational Adjectives

• Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

• Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives

• Proper Adjectives

• Compound Adjectives

• Participle Adjectives

• Comparable and Non-comparable Adjectives

• Adjective Clauses

• Types of Adjectives

8) Adverbs

• Overview: Adverbs

• Adverb Placement and Order

• Comparative and Superlative Adverbs

• Types of Adverbs

  • Place

  • Time

  • Frequency

  • Manner

  • Degree

  • Probability

  • Movement and Direction

  • Demonstrative

  • Relative

  • Interrogative

  • Conjunctive

  • Viewpoint and Commenting

• Intensifiers and Mitigators

• Adverbial Nouns

• Adverbial Clauses

9) Determiners

• Overview: Determiners

• Pre-determiners

• Post-determiners

• Determiner Order

• Possessive Determiners

• Interrogative Determiners

• Demonstrative Determiners

• Indefinite Determiners

• Relative Determiners

• Articles

  • Indefinite Articles

  • Definite Article

  • Zero Article

• Partitives

• Distributives

• Quantifiers

10) Prepositions and Conjunctions

• Overview: Prepositions

  • Types of Prepositions

  • Prepositions of Time

  • Prepositions of Place

  • Prepositions of Direction and Movement

  • Prepositions of Manner

  • Compound Prepositions

  • Participle Prepositions

  • Postpositions

  • Particles

  • Complex Prepositions

• Overview: Conjunctions

  • Subordinating Conjunctions

  • Coordinating Conjunctions

  • Correlative Conjunctions

  • Conjunctions of Time

  • Conjunctions of Concession

  • Conjunctions of Place

  • Conjunctions of Condition

  • Conjunctions of Cause and Effect

  • Complementizers

11) Grammatical Functions

• Subjects

• Predicates

• Complements

  • Verb Complements

  • Direct Objects

  • Indirect Objects

  • Objects of Prepositions

  • Subject Complements

  • Object Complements

  • Adjective Complements

  • Noun Complements

• Adjuncts

• Antecedents

• Appositives

• Expletives

• Pro-forms

  • Pro-verb Phrases

  • Pro-sentences

  • Pro-adverbs

  • Assertive Pro-forms

  • Non-assertive Pro-forms

  • Universal Pro-forms

  • Negative Pro-forms

  • Alternative Pro-forms

• Honorifics and Titles

• Parts of Speech (overview)

12) Phrases and Clauses

• Overview

• Phrases

  • Noun Phrases

  • Verb Phrases

  • Prepositional Phrases

  • Adjective Phrases

  • Adverbial Phrases

• Clauses

  • Independent Clauses

  • Dependent Clauses

  • Finite Clauses

  • Relative Clauses

  • Nominal Relative Clauses

  • Restrictive and Non-restrictive Clauses

  • Condition Clause

  • That-clauses

  • Non-finite Clauses

  • Participle Clauses

    • Present Participles

    • Past Participles

    • Perfect Participles

  • Infinitive Clauses

    • To-infinitives

    • Bare Infinitives

• Modifiers and Issues

  • Dangling Modifiers

• Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases

13) Sentences

• Overview: Sentences and Word Order

• Simple Sentences

• Compound Sentences

• Complex Sentences

• Compound-Complex Sentences

• Word Order

• Cleft Sentences

• Negation

  • Verbs and Clauses

  • Nouns and Pronouns

  • Adverbs

  • Double Negations

  • Negative Markers

• Questions

  • Yes/No Questions

  • Wh- Questions

  • Embedded Questions

  • Question Tags

• Agreement

• Reported Speech

  • Direct Speech

  • Indirect Speech

• Inversion and Fronting

• Ellipsis

14) Punctuation and Spelling

• Overview

• Punctuation

  • Full Stops

  • Question Mark and Exclamation Mark

  • Comma

  • Colons and Semicolons

  • Quotation Marks

  • Hyphens and Dashes

  • Brackets, Braces, and Parentheses

  • Apostrophe

  • Slash

  • Capitalization

  • Contractions

  • Paragraphs

  • Ellipsis Punctuation

  • Run-on Sentences

• Spelling and Sound Units

  • Syllables

15) Etymology and Morphology

• Overview

• Word Formation Processes

• Loan Words and Calque

• Compounding and Blending

• Affixes

  • Prefixes

  • Suffixes

• Abbreviations

• Coinage and Eponyms

• Back-Formation and Conversion

• Clipping and Hypocorism

• Dialects (lexical variation)

• Morphology

• Lexical Relations

16) Miscellaneous Grammar Subjects

• Demonstratives

• Possessives

• Numbers

  • Cardinal Numbers

  • Ordinal Numbers

  • Roman Numerals

  • When to Spell Out Numbers

  • Fractions, Decimals, Percentages

• Measurements

• Expressing Dates

• Expressing Time

• Grammatical Gender

• Interjections

• Money and Prices

• Expressing Comparison

• Expressing Contrast

• Expressing Purpose

• Expressing Cause and Effect

• Expressing Condition

• Greetings

• Nationality

• Definiteness