English Grammar Rules

Here are some essential grammar rules for English language learners:

Nouns

• Common Nouns: These are nouns that do not have a specific gender or number. Examples: cat, table, book.
• Proper Nouns: These are specific names of people, places, or organizations. Examples: New York, Microsoft, John Smith.

Verbs

• Action Verbs: These describe actions or events. Examples: run, swim, write.
• Stative Verbs: These describe states or conditions. Examples: be, have, seem.

Adjectives

• Descriptive Adjectives: These describe or modify nouns. Examples: big, happy, beautiful.
• Pronominal Adjectives: These refer back to a noun in the sentence. Examples: my, your, his.

Adverbs

• Descriptive Adverbs: These modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Examples: quickly, happily, beautifully.
• Conjunctional Adverbs: These connect clauses or sentences. Examples: however, therefore, otherwise.

Sentences

• Simple Sentence: Contains one independent clause. Example: She reads a book.
• Compound Sentence: Contains two or more independent clauses. Example: She reads a book; she watches TV.
• Complex Sentence: Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. Example: After she finished her homework, she watched TV.

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