Main aspects of grammar

English Grammar Guide

Main Aspects of English Grammar

🧱 1. Parts of Speech

  • Noun – names (e.g., cat, city, freedom)
  • Pronoun – replaces a noun (e.g., he, they, it)
  • Verb – shows action or state (e.g., run, is)
  • Adjective – describes a noun (e.g., big, blue)
  • Adverb – describes a verb/adjective (e.g., quickly, very)
  • Preposition – shows position/time (e.g., on, in, before)
  • Conjunction – joins words/clauses (e.g., and, but, because)
  • Interjection – expresses emotion (e.g., wow!, oh no!)

🧩 2. Sentence Structure

Subject + Verb + Object (e.g., She eats apples.)

Types: Simple / Compound / Complex

🧭 3. Tenses

Past (e.g., walked), Present (e.g., walk), Future (e.g., will walk)

Each has: Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous

🔁 4. Voice

Active: The boy kicked the ball.

Passive: The ball was kicked by the boy.

🎯 5. Subject-Verb Agreement

The verb must match the subject.

He runs, They run

🧱 6. Articles and Determiners

Articles: a, an, the

Determiners: this, some, many, my, each

🔤 7. Punctuation

Full stop (.), Comma (,), Question mark (?), Exclamation mark (!), Quotation marks (” “), Apostrophe (’)

❓ 8. Question Forms

Yes/No: Are you ready?

WH-Questions: Where are you going?

🔄 9. Modal Verbs

can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would

✨ 10. Clauses and Phrases

Clause: has subject + verb (e.g., When I arrived)

Phrase: no subject + verb (e.g., after the party)