Grammar Rules Guide
Index
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The voice of a verb tells whether the subject of the sentence performs or receives the action.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 1
Adjective, Adverb, and Noun Clauses
A clause is a group of related words that has both a subject and a predicate.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 2
Adjectives are words that are used to modify a noun.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 3
An adverb is a word or group of words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 4
Appositives are two words or word groups that mean the same thing and are placed together.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 5
Auxiliary or helping verbs are verbs that are used to help form verb phrases but cannot do so independently.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 6
Every noun can be distinguished as common or proper.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 7
Comparative is the second or middle degree of comparison in adjectives or adverbs; Superlative is the third or highest degree of comparison in adjectives or adverbs.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 8
A complement is called a complement because it completes the predicate in a sentence.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 9
Conjunctions are grammatical connectors that link words, phrases or clauses.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 10
A conjunctive adverb is an adverb that connects independent clauses.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 11
A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that does not connect grammatically with what it is intended to modify.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 12
A direct object is the word or words in a sentence designating the person or thing receiving the action of a transitive verb.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 13
Fused Sentences, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices
A fused sentence (also known as a run-on sentence) occurs when two independent clauses are joined without any punctuation or connecting word between them. A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are joined by only a comma.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 14
Homophones are words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 15
Independent and Dependent Clauses
A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a predicate. An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence, while a dependent clause must be accompanied by an independent clause.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 16
Interjections are words or expressions that are inserted into a sentence to convey surprise, strong emotion, or to gain attention.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 17
Every noun can also be distinguished as count or mass. Count nouns can be quantified or counted with a number, while mass Nouns are uncountable by a number.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 18
Misplaced modifiers are single words, phrases, or clauses that do not point clearly to the word or words they modify.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 19
Case refers to how nouns and pronouns are used in relation to the other words in a sentence.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 20
A verb phrase is a phrase (a group of related words lacking a subject or a verb) that consists of a main verb plus one or more helping verbs.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 21
A noun is a name word: a type of word that gives a name to a person, place, or thing.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 22
Parallelism occurs when compound verbs or verbals express actions taking place at the same time or in the same tense.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 23
Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms
The perfect form is the verb tense used to indicate a completed, or perfected, action or condition. The progressive form is a verb tense used to show an ongoing action in progress at some point in time.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 24
A prepositional phrase is a group of words including a preposition and a noun, pronoun, or group of words used as a noun.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 25
A preposition is a word or group of words that shows the relationship—in time, space, or some other senses—between its object and another word in the sentence.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 26
The three principal parts of verbs are the present tense form, the past tense form, and the past participle.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 27
Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement
A pronoun and its antecedent are in agreement if they are both singular or both plural.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 28
Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 29
Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verbs and irregular verbs, on the basis of how their past tense and past participles are formed.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 30
A relative clause acts as a clause that modifies a noun or pronoun. They can either be restrictive or nonrestrictive.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 31
Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses
A restrictive modifying clause (or essential clause) is an adjective clause that is essential to the meaning of a sentence because it limits the thing it refers to. A nonrestrictive modifying clause (or nonessential clause) is an adjective clause that adds extra or nonessential information to a sentence.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 32
A sentence fragment is a part of a sentence punctuated as if it were a complete sentence.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 33
Sentences can be simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 34
In English, every sentence has two essential parts: a complete subject and a complete predicate.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 35
Verbs may be in one of three moods: indicative, imperative, or subjunctive.
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 36
Verbals are verb forms that act as another part of speech in a sentence (i.e. as adjectives, nouns and adverbs).
Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 37
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