Grammar:Parts of Speech

How to learn English Grammar?You need to understand the grammar building blocks,so you know how to compose great pieces of English writing or speech.
Specific part of speech:

• A noun is a person,place,or thing.Example:grandma,school,pencil
• A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun within a sentence.Example:he,she,they
• Articles are special terms that proceed a noun within a sentence.There are three articles:a,an,the
• An adjective modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.Example:red,tall
• A verb is a word that describes an action or state of being.Example:be,run,sleep
• An adverb modifies or describes a verb.Adverbs can also be used to modify adjectives.Example:happily,wonderfully
• A conjunction joins two parts of a sentence together.Example:and,but
• A preposition is used in combination within a noun or pronoun to create a phrase that modifies other parts of speech,like a verb,noun,pronoun,or adjective.Example:up,down,of,from
• Interjections are words that express an emotional state.Example:Wow, ouch, hey

Most parts of speech have additional rules governing their usage.Here are the rules:

• Nouns can be:singular or plural;proper or common;collective;count or non-count;abstract or concrete;gerunds
• Pronouns can be: personal, possessive, reflexive, intensive, reciprocal, indefinite, demonstrative, interrogative, or relative
• The articles “a” and “an” are indefinite,while the article “the” is definite.
• Adjectives can be used on their own,for the sake of making comparisons,or as superlatives.
• Verbs can be:action verbs or linking verbs;main verbs or auxiliary/helping verbs
• Adverbs are either relative adverbs or adverbs of frequency.
• Conjunction are either coordinating or correlative.

At minimum,every sentence consists of a subject and an action.A sentence that lacks either one is a sentence fragment and is considered to be improper.And the subject is usually a noun or pronoun,and the action is conveyed using a verb.

Expand your sentences into more complex forms after mastering this basic format.

Within a sentence,both the subject and verb must share the same singular/plural state.When two singular subjects are connected with the word “and”(he and his brother),the subject becomes plural.But connected by “or” or “nor”(he or his brother),the subject is singular.

Collective nouns,like “family” or “team” ,are treated as singular nouns and require a singular verb.

Compound sentences are the easiest sentence form to master after the basic sentence.Use a conjunction to join two related thoughts into one sentence rather than forming two separate sentences.

Use clauses to form complex sentences.Clauses are the “building block” that can be used to expand a sentence past its basic form.They can be independent or dependent.An independent clause has its own subject and verb.As a result,it could stand as its own sentence.For example:
She felt sad,but her friends cheered her up.
Both “she felt sad” and “her friends cheered her up” could stand as separate sentences.

A dependent clause is one that could not stand as its own sentence.Example: While he agreed with his brother, the boy would not admit to it.
The clause “While he agreed with his brother” would not make sense a separate sentence, so it is a dependent clause.

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