10 Most Important English Grammar Points

10 Most Important English Grammar Points

1. The concept of the simple sentence.

The simple sentence basics: subjects, verbs, objects,

2. The four basic English sentence types which includes the three main-verb BE patterns, basic questions, commands and negative forms.

3. Verb forms.

Verbs are the heavy lifters of English. You have to know tenses, passive verbs, gerunds, infinitives and modal auxiliaries.

4. Singular and plural

This includes subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, and the concepts of count and noncount nouns.

5. The concept of articles.

Students should understand the concepts underlying article use in English.

6. Pronoun reference.

Students have to be able to find the noun a pronoun was referring to.

7. Prepositions.

Relationships are properly indicated with prepositions and prepositional phrases. Again the concepts behind the proper use of prepositions are important.

8. The concept of modification as the process of slightly changeing the meaning.

How adjectives modify nouns, adverbs can modify adjectives, verbs or whole sentences, nouns can modify other nouns, one clause can modify another, phrases can modify nouns etc ...

9. The concept of subordination and it's use in clauses.

The three types of dependent clauses: adverb, adjective and noun. Adverb clauses show relationships between the idea in one part of a sentence and the idea in the other part of the sentence. Adjective clauses modify nouns. Noun clauses function as nouns.

10. The concept of coordination.

The concept of Parallel structures is a very important for brevity and conciseness in English.

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