English Grammar Basics
14 lessons
Lesson 01Includes video
Action Verbs
Action verbs express an action whether physical or mental. An action verb tells us what the subject of the sentence is doing or has done. Looking at examples helps make it clear the function of action verbs in sentences and what purpose they serve. Some action verbs are physical actions: swim, jump, drop, whistle or…
Lesson 02Includes video
Adjectives
Adjective serves as a modifier of a noun or as a helper to the noun. An adjective amplifies the noun. The word white in “the white house” white is the adjective. In most sentences adjective usually comes right before a noun but not always. The huge house. A red car.He is an adventurous mountain climber. The music came…
Lesson 03Includes video
Adverbs
A word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase: Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Adverbs indicate time, manner, place, degree and frequency of something.Adverbs are usually formed by adding ‘ly’ to the end of an adjective.He ran quickly, the adverb…
Lesson 04Includes video
Articles
An article is a word used to modify a noun. A noun may be a person, place, thing, or idea. Technically, an article is an adjective, which is any word that modifies a noun. Usually adjectives modify nouns through description, but articles are used instead to point out the noun(s). There are two types of articles:…
Lesson 05Includes video
Basic English Grammar
Subject + Verb + Object (SVO) combine to make a basic English sentence. (SVO) is where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third.Subject: who/what the sentence is about.Verb: What the subject does/is.Object: a person, place or thing that is affected by the action of a verb.He walked in the rain.…
Lesson 06Includes video
Conjunction
A conjunction is the joining together of elements and it is a word that connects sentences, phrases or clauses.Coordinating conjunctions are easy to remember with an acronymic mnemonic device:FANBOYSFor, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, SoHere are some examples of coordinating conjunctions in English and what they do: For –…
Lesson 07Includes video
Helping Verbs
Sometimes verbs receive help from other verbs. Helping verbs helps the main verbs to express degrees of time and mood. Will, might, can, and need are helping verbs. In the sentence, “I need to go now,” need is the helping verb and adds strength to the verb, go. If a helping verb is next to an –‘ing’ verb, you have a…
Lesson 08Includes video
Irregular and Regular Verbs
Irregular and regular verbs present tense 3rd person singular Simple Past Past Participle Present ParticipleVerbs fall into two categories: regular and irregular. The difference between them is the way their endings change when they become past tense. Regular verbs in the past tense often end with –ed.In the sentence,…
Lesson 09Includes video
Interjection
An interjection shows emotion or feeling. These words or phrases can stand alone or be placed before or after a sentence. Interjections are often followed by an exclamation point or today an emoji. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterjectionABCDabsolutelybahcheers d’ohachoobahcheeshdangackbah humbugcreeping-crud…
Lesson 10Includes video
Linking Verbs
Linking verbs connect the subject of a sentence with information about it.Linking verbs do not describe action. A linking verb is a verb that links (connects) the subject of the sentence to information about that subject. The sentence structure using linking verbs will be: SUBJECT—>LINKING VERB—> INFORMATION…
Lesson 11Includes video
Nouns
Nouns are words that name people, places, or things, states, qualifies or ideas. Nouns can be the subject or object in a sentence.The car is dirty. Car is the subject.I love to read books. Books are the object.The most common nouns…
Lesson 12Includes video
Prepositions
Prepositions show direction, location, or time, or introduce an object. They are usually followed by an object—a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun.The book is aboutThe cat is hiding under the…
Lesson 13Includes video
Pronoun
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. He, himself, and it are examples of pronouns. By substituting pronouns for the nouns in the sentence “Please give this toy to Tony,” it would read “Please give it to him.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PronounPronouns Object Pronouns Reflexive PronounsI me myselfwe us…
Lesson 14Includes video
Alphabet
English is written with twenty-six letters. Every word you will ever read is built out of them. Each letter has two shapes: a big one, called a capital letter, and a small one.