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Top Ten Grammar Rules

A Complete Sentence Involves a Noun and a Verb
A Complete Sentence Involves a Noun and a Verb

So, what are the other basic rules for sentence structure? Subjects and Predicates. Basic to any language is the sentence, which expresses a complete thought and consists of a subject and a predicate. The subject is the star of the sentence; the person, animal, or thing that is the focus of it.

Know Your Punctuation Marks
Know Your Punctuation Marks

With these goals in mind, we'll direct you to guidelines for correctly using the most common marks of punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, apostrophes, and quotation marks.

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Avoid Sentence Fragments at all Cost
Avoid Sentence Fragments at all Cost

Answers: Sentence 1 is complete. Sentence 2 is not really a sentence; it’s a fragment with no complete idea. Sentence e is a comma splice because it contains two complete thoughts joined only by a comma. Can you combine these sentences in a grammatically correct way? Sentence 1: George slipped the microfilm into the heel of his shoe. Sentence 2: The shoe had been shined just yesterday by the superspy.

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Tenses Come in Many Forms
Tenses Come in Many Forms

Verbs come in three tenses: past, present, and future. The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g., earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous.

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Read
Read

To fully understand basic grammar rules, you also need to look at punctuation rules. Capitalization is important. All sentences must start with a capital, or upper-case, letter. Titles of people, books, magazines, movies, specific places, etc. are capitalized. Organizations and compass points are capitalized.

Get a Grammar Manual
Get a Grammar Manual

English grammar rules can be tricky but we get you started with the basics of sentence structure, punctuation and parts of speech. Learn what part a verb, subject, conjunction, or comma plays in constructing sentences.

Review the Basics
Review the Basics

Grammar Rules Review This is a quick, basic grammar review for nouns, verbs, and the sometimes confusing usage of lay versus lie, and rise versus raise. This reference can be used for term papers, grammar class reviews, or simply for anyone confused or curious about the basics of English grammar.

Practice
Practice

Grammar quizzes, punctuation quizzes, and capitalization quizzes provided by The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation.

Listen to Others
Listen to Others

Listen, in contemporary usage, is not a transitive verb, so it cannot take a direct object meaning “the thing being heard”. It is intransitive, and you must use a prepositional phrase headed by to, as in “listen to something”, in order to specify the thing being heard.

Proofread…
Proofread…

Proofreading Grammar. ... and Grammar What is proofreading? ... but you may be uncertain of the rules for spelling, punctuation, grammar and word choice.

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Write
Write

Guidelines for effective writing in regard to letters, reports, memos, resumes, school papers, or even e-mails.

Learn the Parts of Speech
Learn the Parts of Speech

English grammar rules can be tricky but we get you started with the basics of sentence structure, punctuation and parts of speech. Learn what part a verb, subject, conjunction, or comma plays in constructing sentences.

Contemplate the Awesomeness of Sentences
Contemplate the Awesomeness of Sentences

Follow These Steps For Learning Grammar, Learn the Parts of Speech. Every single word can be categorized into one of eight word groups, or parts of speech. … Contemplate the Awesomeness of Sentences. … Learn Phrases. … Learn Clauses. … Use Sentence Diagrams. ... You can learn English Grammar from the Online Courses.

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Learn Phrases
Learn Phrases

English grammar rules can be tricky but we get you started with the basics of sentence structure, punctuation and parts of speech. Learn what part a verb, subject, conjunction, or comma plays in constructing sentences.

Learn Clauses
Learn Clauses

(Without the independent clause, a dependent clause is a sentence fragment.) A dependent clause usually begins with a subordinating conjunction, a relative pronoun, or some other word that causes it to become dependent.

Use Sentence Diagrams
Use Sentence Diagrams

You probably already know that I'm crazy about diagramming sentences. Sentence diagrams are fun to make, and they are an immensely helpful tool for people who are teaching and learning grammar. If you don't know what sentence diagrams are, think of them as pictures of sentences.

Optional Step (If It's Right For You)
Optional Step (If It's Right For You)

If you want a more interactive approach for learning grammar, check out our Get Smart Grammar Program. It goes through all of the topics listed above (and more) and gives you videos, exercises, and quizzes to test yourself along the way.

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