English Grammar Basics

Grammar

• Parts of Speech:
  • Nouns: words that refer to people, places, things, and ideas
  • Verbs: words that express action or a state of being
  • Adjectives: words that describe or modify nouns or pronouns
  • Adverbs: words that describe or modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
  • Pronouns: words that replace nouns in a sentence
  • Prepositions: words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence
  • Conjunctions: words that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
  • Interjections: words that express emotion or feeling

Verb Tense

• Types of Verb Tense:
  1. Present Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that is happening now
     • Examples: I am writing, she is studying, they are eating
  2. Past Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that happened in the past
     • Examples: I wrote, she studied, they ate
  3. Future Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that will happen in the future
     • Examples: I will write, she will study, they will eat
  4. Present Perfect Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that started in the past and continues up to the present
     • Examples: I have written, she has studied, they have eaten
  5. Past Perfect Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that happened before another action in the past
     • Examples: I had written, she had studied, they had eaten
  6. Future Perfect Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that will be completed at a specific point in the future
     • Examples: I will have written, she will have studied, they will have eaten
  7. Present Continuous Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that is in progress at the moment of speaking
     • Examples: I am writing, she is studying, they are eating
  8. Past Continuous Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that was in progress at a specific point in the past
     • Examples: I was writing, she was studying, they were eating
  9. Future Continuous Tense:
     • Used to describe an action that will be in progress at a specific point in the future
     • Examples: I will be writing, she will be studying, they will be eating