Basic English Grammar I

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  • 1 Nouns 7– What you’ll find in this book

    • Common Nouns

    • Proper Nouns

    • Singular Nouns

    • Plural Nouns

    • Collective Nouns

    • Masculine and Feminine Nouns

    • The Possessive Form of Nouns



  • 2 Pronouns 24–

    • Personal Pronouns

    • Reflexive Pronouns

    • Possessive Pronouns

    • Demonstrative Pronouns

    • Interrogative Pronouns

    • Indefinite Pronouns



  • 3 Adjectives 32–

    • Kinds of Adjectives

    • The Order of Adjectives

    • Adjective Endings

    • Describing What Something Is Made of

    • The Comparison of Adjectives

    • Adjective Phrases



  • 4 Determiners 44–

    • The Articles

    • Using Nouns without Articles

    • Demonstrative Determiners

    • Quantifying Determiners

    • Interrogative Determiners

    • Possessive Determiners

    • Numbers

    • Using Determiners Together



  • 5 Verbs and Tenses 52– 

    • Subject and Verb Agreement

    • Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

    • The Simple Present Tense

    • am, is and are

    • there is and there are

    • The Present Progressive Tense

    • The Simple Past Tense

      • was and were



    • Irregular Verbs

    • The Past Progressive Tense

      • have, has and had



    • The Present Perfect Tense

    • Irregular Past Participles

    • The Future Tense

      • do, does and did



    • The Infinitive

    • The Imperative Form of Verbs

    • Gerunds



  • 6 Auxiliary Verbs 88–

    • can and could

    • will and would

    • shall and should

    • ought to

    • must

      • may and might



    • Verb Phrases



  • 7 Adverbs and Adverb Phrases 95–

    • Adverbs of Manner

    • Adverbs of Time

    • Adverbs of Place

    • Adverbs of Frequency

    • Adverbs of Duration

    • Adverbs of Emphasis



  • 8 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 101–

    • Preposition or Adverb?

    • Prepositions of Place

    • Prepositions of Time

    • Prepositions of Direction

      • Prepositions with Special Uses

      • Prepositions with Adjectives, Verbs or Nouns





  • 9 Conjunctions 109– 

    • and, but and or

    • Conjunctions Linking Phrases

    • Conjunctions with Lists

    • Conjunctions That Join Sentences

      • Other Words for and

      • Other Words for but

      • Other Words for or



    • Conjunctions of Time

    • Conjunctions of Place

    • Conjunctions of Reason

    • Conjunctions of Purpose



  • 10 Sentences 118–

    • Four Kinds of Sentence

    • Sentences with Objects

    • Verbs with Two Objects

    • Verbs with No Object

    • Simple Sentences

    • Compound Sentences

    • Conditional Sentences

    • Positive and Negative Sentences

    • Questions

    • Question Tags



  • 11 Direct and Indirect Speech 134–

    • Direct Speech

    • Indirect Speech

    • Indirect Commands

    • Indirect Questions



  • 12 Punctuation 140–

    • exclamation point, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon Punctuation Marks: period, comma, question mark,

    • Capital Letter



  • A List of Irregular Verbs 149–

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