Grammar (Collins Dictionary)

Table of contents

• Parts of speech

• Parts of the sentence
• Direct and indirect objects
• Verbs
• Tense
• The verb phrase
  • Types of main verb
  • The forms of main verbs
  • Irregular verbs
  • Auxiliary verbs
  • Be
  • Have
  • Do
  • Modal verbs
  • Can and could
  • May and might
  • Must
  • Shall and will
  • Should
  • Would
  • Ought to
  • Dare and need
  • Used to
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Tense
  • Aspect
  • Compound tenses
  • The present simple tense
  • The past simple tense
  • The present continuous tense
  • The past continuous tense
  • The present perfect tense
  • The past perfect tense
  • The present perfect continuous tense
  • The past perfect continuous tense
  • Future reference
  • Active and passive
  • Finite and non-finite verbs
  • The non-finite parts of the verb
  • The to infinitive
  • The to infinitive and the -ing form
• The noun phrase
  • The noun phrase
  • Types of noun
  • Gender of nouns
  • Showing possession through nouns
  • Compound nouns
  • Number in nouns
  • Verbal nouns
• Determiners and adjectives
  • Determiners
  • The indefinite article
  • The definite article
  • Nouns used without a determiner
  • Demonstratives
  • Possessives
  • Quantifiers
  • Numbers
  • Distributives
  • Exclamatives
  • Noun phrases with several determiners
  • Adjectives
  • Comparison
• Adverbials
  • Adverbs and adverbials
  • Form of adverbs
• Pronouns
  • Pronouns
  • Personal pronouns
  • Reflexive pronouns
  • Possessive pronouns
  • The demonstrative pronouns
  • Relative pronouns
  • Interrogative pronouns
  • Indefinite pronouns
• Prepositions
• Word order; declarative, interrogative and imperative statements
  • Word order in sentences
  • Declarative, interrogative, and imperative statements
  • The declarative
  • Complements
  • Word order in negative statements
  • The interrogative
  • WH- words
  • Sentence tags
  • The imperative
  • The vocative
  • The subjunctive
  • Exclamations
  • Responses
• Clauses
  • Sentences and clauses
  • Joining clauses
  • Subordination
  • Adverbial clauses
  • Relative clauses
  • Conditional clauses
  • Reporting speech
  • Reported speech
• Punctuation
  • The apostrophe ( ’ )
  • The comma ( , )
  • Quotation marks (‘ ’) or (“ ”)
  • Capital letters
  • The full stop ( . )
  • The question mark ( ? )
  • The exclamation mark ( ! )
  • The colon ( : )
  • The semicolon ( ; )
  • Brackets ( )
  • Square brackets [ ]
  • The hyphen ( - )
  • The dash ( – )
  • The slash ( / )
  • Punctuation in numbers