ENGLISH GRAMMAR

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This index includes 427 references to both the Guide to Grammar and Writing and Principles of Composition. It does not, however, include references to the interactive Quizzes or to the Grammarlogs (posted responses to ASK GRAMMAR queries). The Frequently Asked Questions page and the Guide's Search Engine will also help you find help on grammatical issues, tips on composition, and advice on English usage.

A,An,The(articles) Euphemism AAdjectives EvaluativeEssays Abbreviations Examples(inessays) AbstractNouns ExclamationMark AbsolutePhrases ExpletiveConstructions Acronyms(pluralsof) FactitiveVerbs Acronyms(redundancy) FamilyNames(plurals) FANBOYS ActiveVoice(inverbs) FAQ(page) A.D.andB.C. FewandAFew Adjectives FewerandLess AdjectiveClauses FiniteVerbs AdjectivalLabels FirstConditional Adjuncts FiveParagraphEssay Adverbs FocusAdverbs AdverbClauses FormatRequirements AdverbialConjunctions Fragments Agenda(formeetings) Freewriting Agent(ofasentence) Freq.AskedQuestions Agreement:Pron.& FusedSentences Ant. FutureTenses Agreement:Subj.VerbGenderProblems Gerunds

PlagueWords Pleonasm PluralNounForms Plurals&Apostrophes PluralsofCompounds PointofView Possessives Possessivew/Gerunds Powerpoint Presentations Predeterminers PredicateAdjectives PredicateNominative Predicates Prefixes Preposition(endof sent.) Prepositions Prepositions(list) Prepositions, Superfluous PrepositionalPhrases PrimerLanguage

AlphabeticalOrder Amplifiers AnalysisClassification tobeginsent. And AnomalousAnonymies Antecedent ApologeticQuotation Marks Apostrophe APAstyle Documentation AppositivePhrases ArgumentativeEssays Articles Articles&Acronyms AsversusLike AskGrammar AttributiveNoun Author'sCredentials AuxiliaryVerbs Awards(forthissite) BadandBadly BareInfinitive "Be"(theverb) Because tobeginsent. Becauseclause Bible(parallelism) Bookshelf (recommended) Brackets Brainstorming BritishSpelling BulletedLists Bush,GeorgeW., solecisms

GerundsvsInfinitives (Avoiding) GerundPhrases ProcessEssays GettysburgAddress ProgressiveVerbs (parallelism) Pronouns(Defined) Goingto... PronounAnt.Agrmnt GoodandWell Pronouns&Nouns GRAMMARLOGS Combined (answers) PronounCases GrammarPoll PronounConsistency GrammarRockLyrics Proofreading/Editing Guestbook ProofreadingSymbols GuestbookArchives ProperAdjectives Have,Has,andHad ProperNouns HelpingVerbs Punctuation Historical (a/an) Purpose(inwriting) Holidays(forms) Quantifiers Homonyms/Homophones QuestionMarks Hyphens QUIZZES I.e.ande.g. QuotationMarks ImperativeMood ReciprocalPronouns IndefinitePronouns Redundancy(Avoiding) IndefiniteRelative ReferralForm Pronouns RelativeAdverbs IndependentClauses RelativeClauses IndicativeMood RelativePronouns IndirectObjects ReflexivePronouns IndirectQuestions ReportedSpeech IndirectQuotations ResearchPapers IndirectSpeech RestrictiveClauses Infinitives ResultingCopulas InfinitivePhrases Resumes Initials ResumptiveModifier Intensifiers(adverbs) Reviews(Literary) Intensifiers(Unnecessary)RhetoricalQuestions RunonSentences

BusinessLetter(format)IntensivePronouns SEARCHENGINE Interjections SecondConditional tobeginsent. But Internet(writing SequenceofTenses CanandCould resource) Semicolons Capitalization Interrobang SentenceCombining Case(ofpronouns) InterrogativeAdjectives Sentences(defined) Casesinappositives InterrogativePronouns Sentences(types) CatenativeVerbs IntransitiveVerbs SententialClauses CausativeVerbs IntroductoryParagraphs SequenceofVerbs CauseEffectEssays Inversion(ofsubjverb) SerialComma ClassificationAnalysis IrregularPlurals SexisminLanguage Clauses IrregularVerbForms ShallandWill CleftSentences Italics Should Sic Clichs(Eliminating) ItsversusIt's SilentSpeech Clustering(ideas) Jr.,Sr.,etc. SimplePredicates Coherence Lay,lie SimpleSentences CollectiveAdjectives LessandFewer SimpleSubjects CollectiveNouns LikeversusAs SingleQuoteMarks Colon LinkingVerbs Slant(orSlash) CombiningSentences Lists Commas Literature(writingabout)Slash(orVirgule) Solidus(orSlant) CommaSplices Spelling CompanyNames LittleandALittle SplitInfinitives ComparativeAdjectives Logic SportsTeams'Names ComparativeAdverbs MassNouns SquintingModifiers ComparisonContrast MayandMight Complements Minutes(formeetings) StackedNounPhrases StativeVerbs CompletePredicates MisplacedModifiers StylisticFragments ComplexSentences MixedConstructions SubjectComplements Compositions(writing) MixedMetaphors CompoundPlurals MLAstyledocumentationSubjects SubjectVerbAgreement CompoundPossessives CompoundWords CompoundSentences Compounded Mnemonics(spelling) ModalAuxiliaryVerbs Modifiers SubjectVerbInversion SubjunctiveMood

Subjects/Objects ModifierPlacement SubordinateClause CompoundComplex MoodsofVerbs Subordinating Sentences MoreThanvsOver Conjunctions CompoundingPronounsMutating/Mutated SummativeModifier Plurals Suffixes ComputersandWriting Myself,me Superlative(Adjectives) ConcludingParagraphs NarrativeEssays SuspendedCompounds ConcreteLanguage NonrestrictiveClauses TagQuestions ConciseSentences NegativeAdverbs TensesofVerbs ConditionalVerbs NominativeAbsolute TenseConsistency Conditional(1st,2nd, NominativePossessive ThanandThen 3rd) NonCountNouns Than(incomparisons) Confusion(Eliminating) None(singular/plural) That(omitted) NonFiniteVerbs ThatversusWhich Conjunctions Nouns ThesisStatement ConjunctiveAdverbs NounClauses ThirdConditional Conjuncts NounMarkers ThirdPersonEssays Contractions NounofAddress Titles(italics,etc.) Contractions(inessays) NounPhrases "ToBe"Verb CoordinateAdjectives NOTORIOUS Tone Coordinating CONFUSABLES TopicSentence Conjunctions NumberedLists TowardandTowards Copulas(verbs) Numbers(Using) Transitions(b/w Correlative ObjectComplements sentences,par's) Conjunctions Objectivity(maintaining) TransitiveVerbs Could Objects UnbiasedLanguage CountNouns One(asapronoun) Underlining CumulativeSentences OnlineResources UnderstoodSubjects DanglingModifiers Outlining UntriggeredReflexive Dashes Overvs.morethan Pron. DeadlySinChecklist OxfordComma Usedto DefinitionEssays PackedNounPhrases Verbals Degrees(adj)w/ Paragraphs Verbs premodifiers Parallelism VerbComplements Demonstrative Parentheses VerbTenseSequence

Pronouns ParentheticalElements DependentClauses Participles DescriptiveEssays ParticipialPhrases Determiners Particles DiagrammingSentences PartsofSpeech PassiveGerunds Dictionaries,Thesauri PassiveInfinitives (list) PassiveParticiples DirectObjects PassiveVoice(inverbs) DirectoryofTenses PerfectInfinitive Discontinuousnoun PeriodicSentences phrase Periods Disjuncts Person(ofpronouns) Display(Vertical)Lists PersonalEssays DitransitiveVerbs PersonalPronouns Do,Does,Did PhrasalModals DoversusMake PhrasalVerbs DoubleNegatives Phrases DoublePossessives Plagiarism(avoiding) DoublePrepositions DoublePunctuation Downtoners DynamicVerbs Editing/Proofreading E.g.andi.e. Ellipsis EllipticalClauses Email(capitals) Emphasizers EmphaticSentences EssayWriting EssentialClauses

VerbTenseDirectory VerbTenses VerbTenseConsistency Vertical(Display)Lists ViewpointAdverbs Virgule(orSlash) Vocatives Vocabulary(Building) Voice(active/passive) Warning(aboutGuide use) WellandGood WhichversusThat WhoandWhom WillandShall WillandWould WordyversusConcise Sentences Writers(onwriting) Writer'sBlock ZeroArticles

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Principles of Composition

These English lessons are aimed at the beginner although people with a little experience of English may find some parts useful.

Unit 1
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Am/is/are Introductions, People and The alphabet + greetings and places + + names what/who? farewells where? Lesson 5 Numbers 1 10

Unit 2
Lesson 6 More about people + titles Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Present Present Present continuous - continuous continuous positive "I am - negative questions doing." "I'm not "Am I doing." doing?" Lesson 10 Colours

Unit 3
Lesson 11 Present simple positive "I do." Lesson 12 Present simple negative "I don't." Lesson 13 Present simple questions "Do I?" Lesson 14 Present simple vs. present continuous Lesson 15 More numbers 1020

Unit 4
Lesson 16 Time 1 - on Lesson 17 Time 2 Lesson 18 Time 3 Lesson 19 Days of the Lesson 20 Even more

the hour

quarter past, half past, quarter to etc...

opening times + when

week

numbers 21 1000

Unit 5
Lesson 21 Months of the year Lesson 22 Ordinal numbers Lesson 23 The seasons Lesson 24 Lesson 25 Appearances Appearances 1 - height, 2 - facial build etc... + features to have

Unit 6
Lesson 26 Adjectives for people and places Lesson 27 Possessive adjectives Lesson 28 Today, yesterday, tomorrow Lesson 29 Lesson 30 Simple past - Simple past positive - "I negative - "I did." didn't."

Unit 7
Lesson 31 Lesson 32 Simple Offering, past Accepting questions - and Refusing "Did I? " Lesson 33 Likes and Dislikes Lesson 34 Ordering in a cafe Lesson 35 Paying in a cafe

Unit 8
Lesson 36 How much ...? vs How many ...? Lesson 37 Turning Uncountable Nouns into Countable Nouns. Lesson 38 Much vs Many Lesson 39 The future using will or shall Lesson 40 The future using the present continuous and 'going to'

Unit 9
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Lesson 41 Trains and boats and planes.

Lesson 42 Getting to know you.

Lesson 43 Families #1.

Lesson 44 Families #2.

Lesson 45 Directions #1.

Unit 10
Lesson 46 Directions #2 Lesson 47 Can / Could / Be able to Lesson 48 Present Perfect Simple positive. Lesson 49 Present Perfect Simple negative. Lesson 50 Present Perfect Simple questions.

Unit 11
Lesson 51 Should / Shouldn't

Algebra / Accounting & Trigonometry or Finance PreCalculus(includes Plane Geometry) Assembly Language AutoCad Programming & Microprocessors

Anatomy & Physiology

Architecture & Civil Art & Music Engineering / Technology Biology (including Nutrition) Calculus & Differential Equations

Automotive Tech

Careers / Job Search

Computer Science Electrical &

College Algebra, PreChemical Calculus (w/o Computer Engineering / Chemistry Trig), Engineering / Technology Foundations of Technology Math & Finite Math Database C / C++ Programming Computer Software Economics Programming (includ. Oracle & SQL) EMAIL Accounts English Environmental ESL

Biomedical Engineering / Technology & Electronics French Mac's & Graphic Arts

(WWW) & Internet Composition & Searches Writing GIS, Geology, & Geography Marketing & Management Networks & Data Communication Physics & Astronomy Reading (College Level) Speech (Oral Communications) UNIX & LINUX History Mathematics Advanced Online College Education PLC's Real Estate Statistics Web Design (includ. HTML & JAVASCRIPT)

Science / Ecology & Conservation JAVA Literature & Programming Film Mechanical & Mathematics - Industrial Developmental Engineering / Technology Organic Chemistry & PC's Biochemistry Political Psychology Science Sociology / Reference Anthropology / Linguistics Standardized Study Skills Testing VISUAL WINDOWS & BASIC & DOS VB.NET Programming

Microbiology Philosophy QBASIC Programming Spanish TI Calculators (TI-83)

Sentence Parts: Function and Usage Notes

Absolute Phrases Adjectives Clauses Direct and Indirect Objects Predicates Interjections Nouns Phrases Adverbs Complements Determiners/ Articles Coordinated Adjectives Conjunctions

Prepositions

Pronouns

Subjects

Verbs and Verbals (Infinitives, Participles, Gerunds)

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