Category: Grammar

Browse recent articles about how English grammar works. For an organised starting point with explanations and exercises, visit the grammar lesson library.

Absolute Adjectives: Why Perfect, Unique, and Fatal Cannot Accept Degree Modifiers

Grammar

Possessive Nouns with Compound Entities: Where to Place the Apostrophe S

Grammar

Quantifiers in Modern English: Precise Usage of Few, A Few, Little, and A Little

Grammar

Ergative Verbs: How the Same Action Operates Transitively and Intransitively

Grammar

Transitive vs Intransitive Verbs: Why Some Predicates Demand Direct Objects

Grammar

Conjunctive Adverbs: Joining Independent Clauses with However and Furthermore

Grammar

Bare Infinitives: Verbs of Perception Followed by Uninflected Verb Stems

Grammar

Reporting Verbs Beyond Said: Using Claimed, Urged, Insisted, and Conceded

Grammar

Phrasal Verbs Separability Rules: When Pronouns Must Split Verbs and Particles

Grammar

Gerund or Infinitive: How Verbs Shift Meaning with Remember, Stop, and Regret

Grammar

Prepositions After Adjectives: Dependent Combinations Like Interested In and Good At

Clauses & Prepositions

Cumulative vs Coordinate Adjectives: The Essential Comma Placement Guide

Clauses & Prepositions

Squinting Modifiers: Eliminating Mid-Sentence Syntactic Ambiguity

Clauses & Prepositions

Dangling Modifiers: Detecting and Correcting Detached Introductory Phrases

Clauses & Prepositions

Prepositions of Direction: Fine Distinctions Between Into, Onto, and Toward

Clauses & Prepositions