Grammar

Parts of speech: the noun

• Welcome to grammar!
• Introduction to nouns
• Types of nouns
• Irregular plural nouns: base plurals and irregular endings
• Irregular plural nouns: mutant and foreign plurals

Parts of speech: the verb

• Introduction to verbs
• Verb tenses
• Linking and helping verbs
• Irregular verbs
• Verb aspect: simple, progressive, and perfect
• Verb aspect and modal verbs

Parts of speech: the pronoun

• Introduction to pronouns
• Possessive and reflexive pronouns
• Relative pronouns
• Subject, object, person, and number
• Indefinite pronouns, pronoun vagueness, and emphatic pronouns

Parts of speech: the modifier

• Introduction to adjectives and articles
• Introduction to adverbs
• Adjective order and commas with adjectives
• Comparative, superlative, intensifiers, and adverbs of degree

Parts of speech: the preposition and the conjunction

• Introduction to prepositions
• Types of prepositions and phrases
• Introduction to conjunctions
• Correlative conjunctions and starting sentences

Punctuation: the comma and the apostrophe

• Introduction to commas
• Commas in space and time
• More ways to use commas
• Apostrophes and contractions
• Introduction to the possessive
• "Its" versus "it's"

Punctuation: the colon, semicolon, and more

• Introduction to colons
• Introduction to semicolons
• Formatting styles
• Hyphens, dashes, and ellipses

Syntax: sentences and clauses

• Introduction to sentences
• Types of sentences
• Subjects and predicates
• Phrases and clauses

Syntax: conventions of standard English

• Subject-verb agreement and pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Fragments and run-ons
• Dangling modifiers and parallel structure

Usage and style

• Frequently confused words
• Common expressions
• Style!