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User:Xania - I've edited and created sections for phrasal verbs, articles, capitalization and adjectives.
User:Tkorrovi - I copied the initial text here from Goold Brown's public domain grammar.
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References
edit- Some parts of the book are taken from the public domain text "The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown, 1851.
- Some chapters are adapted from various Wikipedia articles, including Lexical category.
- Some chapters are adapted from the Rhetoric and Composition (PDF) Wikibook and its accompanying Writer's Handbook.
- Some chapters use Wiktionary definitions.
- The organization was adapted from the 1977 edition of Building English Skills Handbook by McDougal, Litell & Company.
- The Parts of Speech in HyperGrammar produced by the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa.
Introduction · About | |
Words: | Articles · Nouns · Pronouns · Verbs · Adjectives · Adverbs · Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections · Verbals |
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Sentences: | Sentences Overview · Basic Components · Phrases · Clauses · Fragments and Run-on Sentences |
Usage: | Adjective and Adverb Usage · Pronoun Usage · Subject-verb Agreement · Verb Usage |
Punctuation: | End Marks · Commas · Apostrophes · Quotations · Other Common Punctuation Marks · Less Common Typographical Marks |
Other key topics: | Time and Date · Capitalization · Spelling · Figures of Syntax · Syntax · Recent Grammar Restructure Attempts |
Appendices: | Glossary · Q&A · External Resources · Common errors · History · Dictionary · Thesaurus |