Capitalizing School Subjects: Reader’s Inquiry
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Category Archives: English Grammar
Inspired or Had Inspired
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Even the University Gets it Wrong Sometimes
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The Subordinating Conjunction: While
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The Subordinating Conjunction: Forming the Complex Sentence
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The Coordinate Conjunction: Joining Parallels
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The Past Perfect Tense
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The Comma and Adjective Clauses
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Future Time Clauses
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Should: Expressing Regrets about the Past – Modals
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Modal Verbs
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Talking About Grammar: Perfect Progressive Tenses in Action
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The Past Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense
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The Present Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense of Verbs
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My Hometown – Verb Tenses in Action!
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Past Time Verbs
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Present Time Verbs
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The Present Perfect Tense
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To Do the Dishes – Disambiguation
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Redundancy
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Topic Sentence: Racism is Rife in the United States
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How Compound Sentences are Formed
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How Complex Sentences are Formed
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What is a Clause?
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Spot the Error
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The Adverb and Adjective Prepositional Phrases
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Finding the Subject
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The Prefix “Pre”
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Correcting the Teacher
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Descriptive Writing: A Snake Above My Head
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Word Families
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Persons, People, Peoples
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Homepage
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Welcome
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The Interjection
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The Subject Pronoun “I”
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The Pronoun
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Capitalization and School Subjects
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Prepositions of Agency
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Running the Red Light
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Prepositions of Direction or Movement
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Prepositions of Place
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Prepositions of Time
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Categories of Prepositions
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The Apposition Versus the Subordinate Clause
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The Apposition
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The Preposition
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The Basics
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The Conjunction
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Forming Compound and Complex Sentences: Practice Exercises
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The Prepositional Phrase
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The Apostrophe
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Prepostions or Adverbs: Double Value Words
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Parts of Speech: Triple Variation
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The Pronominal Adjective
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The Noun
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The Adverb
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The Adjective
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Vocabulary: Words that Confuse
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The Prefix
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The Semicolon: Divided Yet Combined
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The Phrase
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Grammar, Punctuation and Mechanics
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Vocabulary: Use Colorful Verbs
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Sentence Length
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The Sentence
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Phrases and Clauses
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Direct And Indirect Speech
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“Did” Always Takes the Present Tense
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The Colon
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The Simple Sentence
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The Subject and Predicate of a Sentence
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An Introduction to the English Language
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