Grammar at a Glance

Contents:

• Grammar analysis: Where to begin
  • Main structure & conjunctions
  • Gotcha: That
  • Complements
  • Adjuncts
  • Of nouns
  • Who is doing it?
  • Who/what is affected?
  • Who benefits?
  • When/where/how/why does it happen?
  • Semantic role to grammatical function
• Cheat rules
• Common errors
  • Misc
• Grammar analysis gotchas
  • Adjuncts from 50K foot:
  • What modifies what?
  • What Completes What?
  • Prepositional phrase
  • Focused adverbs
  • What is the linking verb when using modal verbs?
  • Relative clause
  • Implied nouns of pronouns
  • Definite is known
  • A determiner is part of the noun
  • Determiner vs. adjective
  • Who, whom & whose
  • When, where, why
  • Relative vs. interrogative pronouns
  • Confusing possessives
  • Possessive: pronouns, adjectives, determiners
  • Determiners vs pronouns:
  • Personal Pronouns
  • Subordinate clauses and complements
  • Properties of a complement
  • Grammatical roles of “That”
  • It’s vs That’s
  • Punctuation
  • Word grammatical role
  • True adjectives
• Phrases
  • Common types of adjective phrases
  • Common roles of prepositional phrases
• Reference tables
  • Adjectival Determiners
  • That: roles of
  • Demonstrative pronouns vs. demonstrative determiners (adjectives):
  • Personal pronouns by case
  • When you can drop a relative pronoun
  • Complementizers
  • Genitives types
  • Prepositional Relative Marker
  • Common “wh” word and their function
  • Possessives
  • Common Postmodifiers
• Signalers
  • Common signalers of complements
  • Main signalers of implied subjects
• Structure
  • Word classes
  • Closed classes words (form-class)
  • Determiners
  • Pronouns
  • Antecedent
  • Nominal relative (fused)
  • Noun Phrase
  • Complement
  • Predicative adjunct
  • Interrogative adverbs
• Syntactic Clauses
  • Subordinate Clauses
  • Adjective clause
  • Restrictive clause
  • Finite vs. Non-finite clause
  • Types of Adverbial clauses, by form
• Key grammatical and semantic terms
• Quick reference for tricky terms
  • Terms
  • Possessive adjectives vs. pronouns
  • His/Her
  • Interrogative Adverbs
  • Distributive determiners