Master English Grammar

Grammar Basics

• Grammar is the set of rules that govern the structure of language, including syntax, morphology, and phonology.

Word-Level Grammar

• Word-level grammar covers the internal structure of words, including morphology, which deals with the formation of words and their relationships.
• It explores how words are formed from roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Determiners

• Determiners are words that express the reference of a noun in a sentence, indicating whether it is specific or general.
• Examples of determiners include articles (the, a, an), possessive adjectives (my, your, his), demonstratives (this, that, these), and quantifiers (some, any, all).

Prepositions

• Prepositions express the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
• They indicate location, direction, time, manner, or other relationships between entities.

Phrase Types

• The five main types of phrase in English are:
  • Noun phrase (NP): a phrase that functions as a noun, e.g. "the big red car".
  • Verb phrase (VP): a phrase that functions as a verb, e.g. "will eat".
  • Adjective phrase (AdjP): a phrase that functions as an adjective, e.g. "very happy".
  • Adverb phrase (AdvP): a phrase that functions as an adverb, e.g. "very quickly".
  • Prepositional phrase (PP): a phrase that functions as a preposition, e.g. "in the book".