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📝 Grammar Essentials

The rules that make your writing clear and correct.

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~30 min

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Teens

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What you’ll learn

Identify the eight parts of speech and understand nouns, pronouns, and verbs.Grammar makes writing clear and correct. Every word is one of eight parts of speech, and nouns, pronouns, and verbs form the core of sentences, with verbs also carrying tense.
Build complete sentences, apply subject-verb agreement, and avoid fragments and run-ons.A sentence needs a subject and verb expressing a full thought. Subjects and verbs must agree in number, and understanding clauses helps you avoid fragments and run-ons.
Use punctuation and apostrophes correctly and edit writing for common errors.Punctuation guides readers, apostrophes show possession or contractions, and homophones like its and it's must be distinguished. Careful editing catches these common errors for clean writing.

Questions this course answers

How many parts of speech are there in traditional English grammar?

English traditionally has eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

What is the job of a pronoun?

A pronoun stands in for a noun, such as 'she' replacing 'Maria.'

What does verb tense tell the reader?

Tense indicates the time of the action: past, present, or future.

A complete sentence must have at least what?

A complete sentence needs at least a subject and a verb and must express a full thought.

Which is correct? 'The box of chocolates ___ on the table.'

The subject is 'box' (singular), so the verb is 'is,' not 'are.'

Which type of clause can stand alone as a sentence?

An independent clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone.

Grounded in trusted sources

Grammarly, 'The 8 Parts of Speech' (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/parts-of-speech/)
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (https://owl.purdue.edu)
Britannica, 'Part of speech' (https://www.britannica.com/topic/part-of-speech)
Scribbr, 'Parts of Speech' (https://www.scribbr.com/category/parts-of-speech/)
Strunk & White, 'The Elements of Style' (4th ed., 1999)

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