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This site on English grammar deals with the proper usage and structure of the language. Learning grammar is essential to mastering a language. Hence, the grammar presented here is to enhance literary skills of reading and writing of the learners.

Each part is clearly presented and briefly discussed in a way that facilitates quick comprehension, followed by exercises. Questions in these exercises are carefully formulated to ensure a reasonable comprehension.

Constant revision will be carried out. More topics relating to English grammar and exercises will be continuously added.

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  • Lesson 1 - Nouns
    • 1. Types of Nouns
    • 2. Functions of a Noun
    • 3. Singular and Plural Nouns
    • 4. Countable and Uncountable Nouns
    • 5. Collective Nouns
    • 6. Possessive form of nouns
  • Lesson 2 - Verbs
    • 1. Principal parts of a verb
    • 2. Auxiliary Verbs
    • 3. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
    • 4. Regular and Irregular Verbs
    • 5. Linking Verbs
    • 6. Finite Verb and Nonfinite Verb
    • 7. Stative/state verbs
    • 8. Other types of verbs
    • 9. Moods of the verb
    • 10. Conjugation of verb
  • Lesson 3 - Adjectives
    • 1. Types of Adjectives
    • 2. Comparative Adjectives
    • 3. Participial Adjectives
    • 4. Adjectives Function as Nouns
    • 5. Position of adjective in a sentence
    • 6. Order of Adjectives
  • Lesson 4 - Adverbs
    • 1. Types of Adverbs
    • 2. Comparison of Adverbs
    • 3. Forming Adverbs
    • 4. Position of Adverbs
  • Lesson 5 - Pronouns
    • 1. Personal Pronouns
    • 2. Reflexive Pronouns
    • 3. Relative Pronouns
    • 4. Possessive Pronouns
    • 5. Demonstrative Pronouns
    • 6. Indefinite pronouns
    • 7. Interrogative Pronouns
    • 8. Reciprocal Pronouns
    • 9. Intensive/Emphatic Pronouns
  • Lesson 6 - Prepositions
    • 1. Prepositions of Time
    • 2. Prepositions of Place
    • 3. Prepositions of Direction
    • 4. Prepositions of Manner/Prepositions of Cause and Effect
    • 5. Simple and Compound Prepositions
    • 6. Same word used as preposition and adverb
    • 7. Same word used as preposition and other parts of speech
    • 8. Positions of preposition in the sentence
    • 9. Ending a sentence with a preposition
  • Lesson 7 - Conjunctions
    • 1. Coordinating Conjunctions
    • 2. Subordinating Conjunctions
    • 3. Correlative Conjunctions
    • 4. Connecting Conjunctions
    • 5. Conjunctions Function as Preposition, Adverb, or Adjective
    • 6. More on Conjunctions
    • 7. The conjunction 'that'
  • Lesson 8 - Subject-Verb Agreement
    • 1. The verb must agree with the subject
    • 2. Compound subjects and the verbs
    • 3. Subjects coming after the Verbs
    • 4. Two subjects/nouns with singular verb
    • 5. Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns
    • 6. Words that intervene between subject and verb
  • Lesson 9 - Articles
    • 1. Definite article: the
    • 2. Indefinite Article: a, an
    • 3. Zero Article
    • 4. Articles before Countable and Uncountable Nouns
    • 5. Same Noun Used with all Three Articles
    • 6. Position of an article in a sentence
  • Lesson 10 - Modal Verb
    • 1. CAN and COULD
    • 2. MAY and MIGHT
    • 3. WILL and WOULD
    • 4. SHALL and SHOULD
    • 5. MUST
    • 6. Semi-modal verbs / HAD BETTER
    • 7. OUGHT TO and USED TO
    • 8. DARE and NEED
  • Lesson 11 - Conditionals
    • 1. The First Conditional
    • 2. The Second Conditional
    • 3. The Third Conditional
    • 4. The Zero Conditional
  • Lesson 12 - Modifiers
    • 1. Adjectives and Adverbs as Modifiers
    • 2. Comparatives and Superlatives as Modifiers
    • 3. Multiple Modifiers
    • 4. Nouns as Modifiers
    • 5. Participles as Modifiers
    • 6. Phrases and Clauses as Modifiers
    • 7. Dangling Modifiers
    • 8. Misplaced & Squinting Modifiers
  • Lesson 13 - Indirect Speech
    • 1. Direct Speech or Quoted Speech
    • 2. Indirect Speech or Reported Speech
    • 3. Changing Direct Speech to Indirect Speech
    • 4. Changes in Indirect Speech
    • 5. Reporting Questions
  • Lesson 14 - Either/Neither
    • 1. Used as a Pronoun
    • 2. Used as a Determiner
    • 3. Used as a Conjunction
    • 4. Used as an Adverb
    • 5. Using 'Nor' without Neither
  • Lesson 15 - Active and Passive Voice
    • 1. Active and Passive Voice
    • 2. Tenses in the Passive Voice
    • 3. Passive Sentence with Two Objects
    • 4. Reasons For and Against Passive Voice
    • 5. More on Passive Voice
  • Lesson 16 - Punctuation
    • 1. Full Stop/Period (.)
    • 2. Comma (,)
    • 3. Question Mark (?)
    • 4. Exclamation Mark (!)
    • 5. Colon (:)
    • 6. Semicolon (;)
    • 7. Apostrophe (')
    • 8. Hyphen (-) / Dash (–)
    • 9. Quotation Marks ("...")
    • 10. Parentheses / Brackets
    • 11. Ellipsis
  • Lesson 17 - Clauses
    • 1. Independent Clause / Main Clause
    • 2. Dependent Clause / Subordinate Clause
    • 3. Adverbial Clause
    • 4. Noun Clause
    • 5. Relative Clause / Adjective Clause
    • 6. Finite and Nonfinite Clauses
    • 7. Restrictive (or defining) and Non-restrictive (or non-defining) Relative Clauses
    • 8. That-Clause
  • Lesson 18 - Verb + -ing
    • 1. The Verb + -ing used as the Present Participle
    • 2. The verb + –ing used as an Adjective
    • 3. The verb + –ing used as a Gerund
  • Lesson 19 - Determiners and Quantifiers
    • 1. Definite Article
    • 2. Demonstratives
    • 3. Possessive determiners
    • 4. Distributives
    • 5. Quantifiers + Countable Nouns
    • 6. Quantifiers + Uncountable Nouns
    • 7. Quantifiers + Countable and Uncountable Nouns
    • 8. Some and Any
    • 9. THIS, THAT, THESE and THOSE
  • Lesson 20 - Phrasal Verbs
    • 1. Separable and non-separable phrasal verbs
    • 2. Separable Transitive Phrasal Verb
    • 3. Non-separable Transitive Phrasal Verb
    • 4. Non-separable Intransitive Phrasal Verb
    • 5. Phrasal Verbs - Intransitive
  • Lesson 21 - Phrases
    • 2. Adjective Phrase
    • 3. Adverbial Phrase
    • 4. Appositive phrase
    • 5. Gerund phrase
    • 6. Infinitive Phrase
    • 7. Participial Phrase
    • 8. Prepositional Phrase
    • 1. Absolute Phrase
  • Lesson 22 - Participles
    • 1. Participle and Verb Tenses
    • 2. Present Particles (I)
    • 3. Present Particles (II)
    • 4. Past Particles
    • 5. Fused Participles
    • 6. Dangling Participles

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