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Grammar

Grammar

The building blocks of the language.

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Gerunds: Easy Emergency NounsGerunds: Easy Emergency Nouns

A gerund is a verb form ending in “-ing” (“baking,” “swimming,” “dancing”) that acts as a noun.

Possessive Nouns and PronounsPossessives

Possessive forms of nouns (with an apostrophe either before or after an “s”) and pronouns (without an apostrophe) indicate a relationship of belonging.

All about Verbs: Types & ExamplesVerbs

Verbs describe actions, states, and events, and may be lexical, auxiliary (“be,” “do,” and “have”), or modal (e.g., “can,” “must”). They carry tense, aspect, mood, and voice. Verbs may also be categorized as transitive and intransitive, stative and dynamic, and linking or copular.

All About Pronouns: Types and ExamplesPronouns

A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun. Pronouns may be personal, reflexive, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, reciprocal, or indefinite.

Count and Mass NounsCount and Mass Nouns

Count nouns have singular and plural forms (e.g., star/stars). Mass nouns are thought of in terms of quantity rather than number of units, and have no distinct singular and plural forms (e.g., milk, excitement, oxygen).

All About Nouns: Types and ExamplesNouns

Nouns are words used to identify people, places, objects, and ideas. Nouns can be proper or common, collective, count or mass (or both), and concrete or abstract.

Infinitives and Gerunds: Differences, Uses, ExamplesInfinitives and Gerunds

Some verbs can take gerunds and infinitives as the object interchangeably (e.g., “start,” “love,” “prefer”). But certain verbs can take only infinitives (e.g., “need,” “plan,” “agree”), while others can take only gerunds (e.g., “finish,” “consider,” “suggest”).

The Infinitive in English: Form, Uses, ExamplesInfinitives

An infinitive is the basic form of a verb. It is generally used with the word “to” (“to run”). It can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb in a sentence.

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