Comprehensive List of English Grammar Topics
1. Parts of Speech
- Nouns (countable, uncountable, proper, common, abstract, collective)
- Pronouns (personal, possessive, reflexive, relative, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite)
- Verbs (main verbs, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs)
- Adjectives (comparative, superlative, order of adjectives)
- Adverbs (manner, place, time, frequency, degree)
- Prepositions (of time, place, direction, cause, etc.)
- Conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, correlative)
- Interjections
2. Sentence Structure
- Sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory)
- Sentence components (subject, predicate, object, complement)
- Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
3. Tenses
- Present: Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous
- Past: Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous
- Future: Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous
4. Verb Forms
- Base form, past form, past participle, present participle
- Regular and irregular verbs
- Infinitives and gerunds
- Transitive and intransitive verbs
- Phrasal verbs
5. Subject-Verb Agreement
- Rules for singular/plural subjects
- Agreement with indefinite pronouns
- Special cases (collective nouns, 'either/neither', etc.)
6. Articles and Determiners
- Definite article (the)
- Indefinite articles (a, an)
- Zero article
- Demonstratives, quantifiers, possessives
7. Passive and Active Voice
8. Direct and Indirect Speech (Reported Speech)
9. Questions
- Yes/No questions
- WH-questions
- Tag questions
- Indirect questions
10. Clauses and Phrases
- Noun clauses
- Adjective (relative) clauses
- Adverbial clauses
- Conditional clauses (zero, first, second, third, mixed)
- Phrases: noun, verb, prepositional, gerund, infinitive
11. Modals and Auxiliary Verbs
- Can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would
- Uses of modals (ability, possibility, obligation, advice, etc.)
12. Conditionals
- Zero, First, Second, Third, and Mixed conditionals
13. Comparisons
- Comparative and superlative adjectives/adverbs
- 'As...as', 'so...that', 'too...to', 'enough to'
14. Relative Pronouns and Clauses
- Who, whom, whose, which, that
- Defining vs. non-defining relative clauses
15. Common Errors and Confusions
- Who vs. whom
- Their vs. there vs. they're
- Its vs. it's
- Then vs. than