Grammar lesson

Verbs and Verb Tenses

Action verbs, express what is happening (do, work). State verbs express a situation (be, have).

NounsNouns represent people (teacher, Mary), places (town, Asia) and things (table, music).

AdjectivesAn adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun (big, red, expensive).

AdverbsAdverbs tell us more about verbs, adjectives or adverbs (loudly, really, extremely).

DeterminersDeterminers are words like the, an, this that start a noun phrase.

PrepositionsA preposition expresses the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word (at, in, from).

PronounsPronouns are small words like you, ours, some that can take the place of a noun.

ConjunctionsConjunctions join two parts of a sentence (and, but, though).

InterjectionsShort exclamations with no real grammatical value (ah, dear, er)

The term "grammar" can also describe the linguistic behavior of groups of speakers and writers, rather than individuals. Differences in scales are important to this sense of the word: for example, the term "English grammar" could refer to the whole of English grammar (that is, to the grammars of all the speakers of the language),