english grammar

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Guide to Punctuation
Which is the 'Best' English?
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Grammar CategoriesAdjectives
Adverbs
Determiners
Direct and Indirect Speech
Gerund and Present Participle (ing form)
Nouns
Passive
Possessive
Relative Clauses
The Infinitive
To Get
Verbs and Verb Tenses


AdjectivesMain Menu
Form - adjectives
Function
Order
comparatives & superlatives
Irregular comparatives & superlatives
The + superlative
comparative + than
as + adjective + as
not as + adjective + as
Comparisons of quantity - menu
Comparisons of quantity - showing difference
Comparisons of quantity - showing no difference



AdverbsFunction
Form - adverb
Comparative form
Manner
Place
Main Menu
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Degree - enough,very,too,extremely,almost etc
Certainty
Viewpoint, commenting
Interrogative - why,where,how,when
Relative adverbs - which,what,whose
Time



DeterminersMenu - function and class
The definite article
the,a,an
Exceptions to using the definite article
Demonstratives - this,that,these,those etc
Possessives
Menu - quantifiers
Quantifiers 2 - many,much,more,most etc.
Quantifiers 7 - Enough
Quantifiers 4 - Numbers
Distributives - Menu
Distributives - each, every, either, neither
Difference words - other,another
Question words - which,what,whose
Defining words - which,whose
Pre-determiners
The indefinite article
Quantifiers 3 - how,much,many,few,lot etc.
Quantifiers 1 - determiners,a few,few,a little,little
Quantifiers 5 - Some and Any
Quantifiers 6 - something,somebody,someone etc.
Distributives - all, both, half



Direct and Indirect SpeechIntroduction
tense changes
changes of time and place reference
Reporting questions
Reporting orders, requests, suggestions
Reporting hopes and intentions
Summary of reporting verbs



Gerund and Present Participle (ing form)Introduction
As present participle
Gerunds
Verbs followed by gerund
Gerund or infinitive?
Gerund/infinitive - difference in meaning



NounsNoun Gender
Plurals
Countable & Uncountable
Compound nouns
Use of Capital letters
Nationalities
Menu - nouns



PassiveForm -past
Function
Get/have something done, x needs doing
Active/passive equivalents



Possessivepossessive



Relative ClausesIntroduction
Defining relative clauses
prepositions in relative clauses
Non-defining relative clauses



The InfinitiveForm, with or without 'To'
Zero infinitive
negative infinitive
Infinitive after question words
Function
Other forms of infinitive
Verbs followed by infinitive
Verbs followed by noun + infinitive
Verbs + infinitive with/without noun



To Getget,got,getting
Examples



Verbs and Verb TensesSummary
Simple Present
Present continuous
Present Perfect 1
Present Perfect 2
Present perfect 3
Present perfect 4
Present perfect continous
Simple past
Past continuous
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous
Future forms - Introduction
Future forms - Simple future
Present continuous for future events
Simple present for future events
Future with 'Going to'
Future continuous
Future perfect
Future perfect continuous
Other forms of future
IF Sentences with If,condtional tenses
Zero conditional
Type 1 conditional
If sentences with If + past,would,present condtional
If setences with present continuous conditional
If sentences with perfect conditional,if + past perfect
If sentences with Conditional perfect continuous
If sentences with mixed conditionals
If sentences with if+not,unless,verbs
If sentences with wish,would rather,suppose,what if,if only
Menu / Introduction

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