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English Grammar Topics List

Nouns
1. Gendered nouns
2. Singular and plural nouns including irregular plural nouns
3. Countable and uncountable nouns
4. Definite pronouns
5. Indefinite pronouns
6. Compound nouns
7. Capitalization rules for nouns
8. Nationalities in English
9. Forming the possessive

Adjectives
Definition of adjectives
Recognizing and placing adjectives in sentences
The order of adjectives when using several in a row
Forming comparative and superlative adjectives
Using adjectives to compare attributes
Adjectives describing equal quantities
Adjectives describing unequal quantities

Adverbs
What adverbs are and what they are for
Forming adverbs from adjectives
Forming the comparative and the superlative of adverbs
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of degree
Adverbs of certainty
Viewpoint and commenting adverbs

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Relative adverbs
Interrogative adverbs

Determiners
Definite article : the
Indefinite articles : a, an
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
Pronouns and possessive determiners : my, your, his, her, its, our, their
Quantifiers : a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough
Numbers : one, ten, thirty
Distributives : all, both, half, either, neither, each, every
Difference words : other, another
Pre-determiners : such, what, rather, quite

Verbs & verb tenses

Present tenses in Examples

English

Simple present They walk home.

tense

Present They are walking home.

continuous tense

Past tenses in
English

Simple past tense Peter lived in China in 1965.

Past continuous I was reading when she arrived.

tense

Perfect tenses in
English

Present perfect I have lived here since 1987.

tense

Present perfect I have been living here for years.

continuous

Past perfect We had been to see her several times before

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she visited us.

Past perfect He had been watching her for some time

continuous when she turned and smiled.

Future perfect We will have arrived in the States by the time

you get this letter.

Future perfect By the end of your course, you will have

continuous been studying for five years.

Future tenses in
English

Simple future They will go to Italy next week.

tense

Future continuous I will be travelling by train.

tense

Conditional tenses
in English

Zero conditional If ice gets hot it melts.

Type 1 If he is late I will be angry.

conditional

Type 2 If he was in Australia he would be getting up

conditional now.

Type 3 She would have visited me if she had had

conditional time.

Mixed conditional I would be playing tennis if I hadn’t broken

my arm.

The -ing forms in

English

Gerund I like swimming.

Present participle She goes running every morning.

Infinitives

Passive voice

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Speech
Direct and indirect speech
Tense changes when reporting speech
Changing time and place references when reporting speech
Question forms and reporting speech
Verbs used for reporting speech in English
Reporting orders, requests, and suggestions
Reporting hopes, intentions, and promises

Punctuation
The period (or full stop in British English)
The comma
The exclamation mark
The question mark
The colon
The semicolon
The quotation mark
The apostrophe
The hyphen and the dash
Parentheses and brackets

Relative clauses
Defining clauses
Non-defining clauses

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