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Contents of Better English Grammar

• GRAMMAR
• THE SENTENCE AND THE PARAGRAPH
• The sentence
• Minor sentences
• Major sentences
• Subject and predicate
• Subject
• Predicate
• Object
• Direct object
• Indirect object
• Complement
• Punctuation of sentences
• Types of sentence
• Statements
• Negative sentences
• Questions
• Comparative clause
• Relative clause
• Types of relative clause
• Defining relative clause
• Non-defining relative clause
• Punctuation in relative clauses
• Prepositions in relative clauses
• Noun clause or nominal clause
• Comment clause
• Phrases
• Noun phrase
• Adjective phrase
• Adverb phrase
• Preposition phrase
• Participial phrase
• Phrasal verbs
• Position of object in phrasal verbs
• PARTS of Speech I
• Main parts of speech
• Nouns
• Common and proper nouns
• Concrete and abstract nouns
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Verbal noun
• Collective nouns
• Singular and plural forms of nouns
• Regular singular forms of nouns
• Regular plural forms of nouns
• Irregular plural forms of nouns
• Foreign plural forms of nouns
• Unchanging plural form
• Nouns used only in the plural form
• Gender of nouns
• Dual gender
• Feminine forms
• Person in compound nouns
• Compound nouns
• Plural forms of compound nouns
• Nouns and noun phrases in apposition
• Pronouns
• Personal pronouns
• I and we: the first person personal pronoun
• You: the second person personal pronoun
• He, she, it and they: the third person personal pronoun
• Possessive pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Reciprocal pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns
• Distributive pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• Relative pronouns
• PARTS OF SPEECH II
• Adjectives
• Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
• Position of adjectives
• Attributive adjectives
• Predicative adjectives
• Post-modifiers
• Qualitative adjectives
• Classifying adjectives
• Colour adjectives
• Number adjectives
• Emphatic adjectives
• Interrogative adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives
• Possessive adjectives
• Compound adjectives
• Order of adjectives
• Adjectives used as nouns
• Adjective or adverb?
• Comparative forms of adjectives
• Comparative and number of syllables
• Irregular comparatives
• No comparative form
• Superlative forms
• Irregular superlatives
• No superlative form
• Determiners
• Types of determiner
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Definite article
• Indefinite article
• Demonstrative determiners
• Possessive determiners
• Indefinite determiners
• Number determiners
• PARTS OF SPEECH III
• Verbs
• Regular verbs
• Irregular verbs
• Categories of irregular verbs
• Tense
• Present tense
• Simple present tense
• Continuous present tense
• Past tense
• Simple past tense
• Continuous past tense
• Perfect tense
• Continuous present perfect tense
• Past perfect tense
• Future tense
• Traditional grammar
• Modern usage
• Other ways of referring to the future
• Mood
• Indicative mood
• Imperative mood
• Subjunctive mood
• Voice
• Active voice
• Passive voice
• Transitive verb and intransitive verb
• Linking verb
• Auxiliary verb
• Modal auxiliary verb
• Concord
• Parts of a verb
• Infinitive
• Participles
• Present participle
• Past participle
• PARTS OF SPEECH IV
• Adverbs
• Types of adverb
• Adverbs of time
• Adverbs of frequency
• Adverbs of duration
• Adverbs of place
• Adverbs of manner
• Adverbs of degree
• Adverbs of emphasis
• Interrogative adverbs
• Prepositions
• Simple prepositions
• Complex prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses
• PUNCTUATION
• THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION
• Full stop
• The full stop and abbreviations
• The full stop in email and website addresses
• Question mark
• Exclamation mark
• Capital letter
• Comma
• The comma as separating device in lists
• The comma as a separating device in a list of adjectives
• Commas and relative clauses
• Commas and subordinate clauses
• The comma as a separating device in clauses joined by coordinating
• conjunctions
• The comma as separating device with initial phrases
• The comma with terms of address
• The comma with question tags
• The comma with interjections
• The comma used in pairs as a means of separation or parenthesis
• The comma with nouns or phrases in apposition
• The comma and numbers
• Brackets
• Dash
• Semicolon
• The semicolon as a link
• The semicolon as a separation device in lists
• The semicolon as separation device in lists of word groups already
• containing commas
• The semicolon as a separation device before certain adverbs
• Colon
• The colon as a separating device in a two-part sentence
• The colon as a linking device or introduction
• Hyphen
• The hyphen in word-breaks
• Quotation marks
• Quotation marks and direct speech
• Quotation marks and paragraphs
• Quotation marks and dialogue
• Other uses of quotation marks
• Quotation marks and titles
• Quotation marks and a direct quotation
• Other punctuation marks
• Apostrophe
• Asterisk
• Three-dot ellipsis
• Oblique
• DEVELOPING YOUR OWN STYLE
• STYLE
• Sentence style
• Sentence length
• The middle way
• Sentence structure
• Compound sentences
• Complex sentences
• Vocabulary
• Active and passive vocabulary
• Increasing your word power
• Dictionaries and thesauruses
• Register
• Keep it simple
• Adding variety
• WORDS THAT MAY CONFUSE
• IDIOMS, CLICHÉS AND EVERYDAY PHRASES
• Common idioms
• Clichés
• Everyday phrases
• Homophones
• Homonyms
• Homographs and heteronyms