Grammar at a Glance¶
Contents:
- Grammar analysis: Where to begin
- Cheat rules
- Common errors
- 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
- Reference tables
- Adjectival Determiners
- Subordinate concessive conjunctions
- Despite, in spite of:
- Clarification of contrasts
- That: Roles of
- Demonstrative pronouns vs. demonstrative determiners (adjectives):
- Personal pronouns by case
- Adjective clause
- Restrictive clause
- When you can drop a relative pronoun
- Complementizers
- Subordinate Clauses
- Common roles of prepositional phrases
- Genitives types
- Common semantic roles
- Types of Adverbial clauses, by form
- Types of adverbial clauses by semantic function
- Clause function: Target vs. commonly confused types
- Prepositional Relative Marker
- Finite vs. Non-finite clause
- Common types of adjective phrases
- Common “wh” word and their function
- Possesives
- Common Postmodifiers
- Signalers
- Structure
- Key grammatical and semantic terms
- Quick reference for tricky terms