Grammar at a Glance¶
Contents:
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Analysis of a sentence: Where to begin
- Auxiliary Verbs
- CGEL
- Cheat rules
- Complements
- Common errors
- Focus
- Future
- Gotchas
- Adjuncts from 50K foot
- What modifies what?
- What completes What?
- Complement vs modifier
- Some complements are objects
- What is the linking verb when using modal verbs?
- Definite article: it must be known
- Punctuation
- The grammatical role of a word
- True adjectives
- Very is two words: adverb and adjective
- The function of “for”
- Focused adverbs
- Adverb or adjective
- Determinatives vs adverbs for quantity/extent/degree
- A determiner is part of the noun
- Determiner vs. adjective
- Determiners vs pronouns
- Personal pronouns
- Possessive determiners vs. pronouns
- Confusing possessives
- Possessive: pronouns, adjectives, determiners
- Wh: Who, whom & whose
- Wh: When, where, why
- Wh: relative vs. interrogative pronouns
- Subordinate clauses and complements
- Predicate, predicator, predicative
- Predicative can, but not must, be complement
- Participle
- What modifies a participle
- Gerund - participle in CGEL
- Auxiliary verbs
- Auxiliary Be
- Modal auxiliaries
- Grammatical roles of “That”
- It’s vs That’s
- Clause vs Phrase (CGEL-style)
- Subordinators
- Subordinators vs. prepositions
- Complement in phrase/clause
- Relative clause
- Content clause vs Relative clause
- Prepositional phrase
- Implied nouns of pronouns
- Relative adv. have other usage except introducing RC
- Relative clause vs. PP
- Participles
- The Preterite: Saw
- The Past Participle: Seen
- Why This Matters for Regular Verbs
- The Gerund-Participle: Seeing
- Integrated Verb Paradigm (See)
- Why Seeing is Non-Finite (The Tense Test)
- Comparison of the three forms
- As adjective
- Verbal Past Participles (Passive)
- Comparison of Verbal vs. Adjectival Uses
- Nominalized Participle
- Predicator & predicative
- Prepositions
- Reference tables
- That: roles of
- Adjectival Determiners
- Demonstratives: pronouns vs. determiners (adjectives):
- Personal pronouns by case
- Genitives types
- Possessives
- Common “wh” word and their function
- Nominative & accusative
- Focus adjuncts vs. focus modifiers
- Participle by type
- Comparison of finite vs. non-finite (participle)
- Predicate, predicator, predicative
- Attributive vs. Predicative
- Primary vs. secondary predicative
- Predicative adjectives, their complements, and optionality
- Complements by type
- Complement, predicative, object
- Complements by head category
- Ways to introduce relative clause
- WH Subordinators
- Prepositional relative marker
- Function of the relativized element inside the relative clause
- Signalers
- Nouns
- Verb
- Complements
- Adjective Complements
- Subject Complements
- Object Complements
- Main signalers of implied subjects
- Transitive Verbs
- Intransitive Verbs
- Clauses
- Pronouns
- Determinative/adverbs
- Auxiliary verb
- Can convert to attributive position?
- Auxiliary verb vs. lexical verb
- The adverb “very”
- ly for adverbs
- Adverbs vs. prepositions
- Adverbs vs. Adjectives
- Structure
- Terminology
- Tricky terms
- Verbs