English Grammar Taught by a Native English Speaker

Explore the parts of speech in English grammar basics, covering nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections across three units.

Learn nouns, words that identify a person, place, thing, or idea, and master singular and plural forms, possessive nouns with apostrophe s, capitalization of proper nouns.

explain pronouns and their role in replacing nouns and antecedents to avoid repetition, classify personal pronouns by person and number, and cover possessive forms plus the its versus it's distinction.

Explore reflexive and intensive pronouns, then demonstrate demonstrative, interrogative, relative, and indefinite pronouns with clear examples and practical usage.

Learn verbs as the core of sentence structure, covering action and mental action verbs, linking verbs with be forms, verb phrases with helping verbs, and basic tenses.

Explore how adjectives modify nouns, pronouns, and even verbs in participle forms, with comparisons, articles, and proper adjectives from places like Rome, Italy, and Taiwan.

Explains adverbs, how they modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, with examples including negative words like not and contractions, and covers positive, comparative, and superlative degrees.

Learn to use adjectives and adverbs correctly, avoid double and incomplete comparisons, distinguish good from well, correct double negatives, and craft clear, accurate comparisons.

Explore how prepositions show relationships between a noun or pronoun and another word, with examples like on, during, and under, and distinguish them from adverbs.

Explore how conjunctions join words or groups of words and clauses, including coordinating conjunctions such as fanboys, correlative conjunctions, and subordinating conjunctions like when, because, before, and after.

Explore interjections, a part of speech that expresses emotion with no grammatical link to a sentence. Identify examples like yikes, ouch, wow, and goodness gracious me.

Explore the parts of the sentence: subjects, predicates, and complements, and how these elements interact within sentences, using the machine analogy to build on parts of speech knowledge.

Explore subjects and predicates in sentences, defined as groups of words that express a complete thought. Learn about simple, complete, and compound subjects and predicates, including an implied subject.

Master complements in English grammar by identifying direct and indirect objects, object complements, and subject complements, with clear rules and examples from the lecture caption.

Explore subject-verb agreement, including singular and plural forms, be, have, and do variations, and rules for intervening phrases, compound subjects, and indefinite pronouns.

Explore phrases in English grammar, including prepositional and verbal phrases, and learn how phrases add essential or nonessential information to a sentence, using a machine analogy.

Learn to identify prepositional phrases, built from a preposition and its object, and how they modify nouns or verbs as adjective or adverb phrases.

Identify appositive phrases and learn how they add extra information about a noun or pronoun, with examples like Jack and Paris, the city of lights.

Explore verbals and verbal phrases, including participles, gerunds, and infinitives, and how they function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs with example phrases.

Identify common mistakes with modifying phrases including misplaced, dangling, participle and prepositional phrases, and learn to place modifiers as close as possible to the word they modify.

Explore clauses and sentence structure, analyzing the different kinds of sentences that clauses form, building on parts of speech and phrases to view the sentence as a whole.

Explore clauses and sentence structure by examining simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, with examples of main clauses, subjects, and predicates.

Explore how main clauses and subordinate clauses form complete thoughts, and how adjective, adverb, and noun clauses modify or function within sentences.

Identify sentence fragments and run-on sentences by analyzing subjects, predicates, and subordinate clauses; learn to form complete sentences using main clauses and fixes with periods, semicolons, coordinating or subordinating conjunctions.

Explore verb tenses by focusing on verbs, action, and states of being, and see verbs drive sentence structure, parts of speech, and what a sentence does and when it happens.

Explore the principal parts of verbs—base form, present participle, simple past, and past participle—and learn how regular and irregular verbs form their tenses with examples.

Explore how verbs mark time with present, past, and future tenses, the base form plus s or es in the third person, and the exceptions for be and have.

Explore the present, past, and future perfect tenses, using have or has plus the past participle to express actions begun or completed at indefinite times or before another future action.

Master progressive and emphatic verb forms by using be plus the present participle across tenses, and do/does/did for emphasis, as in they are running and she does read.

Master using verbs well by applying tense rules, keeping past tense for simultaneous events, changing tense for preceding or following events, and weighing active versus passive voice.

Learn to use pronouns correctly by identifying common mistakes and practicing strategies to avoid and correct them.

Learn the case of personal pronouns, including nominative, objective, and possessive forms, with rules for compound subjects, after linking verbs, and proper placement in series.

Explore how pronouns and appositive nouns relate to subjects and objects. Learn to choose nominative forms for appositive subjects and objective forms for objects using practical examples.

Learn how to choose the pronoun form after than and as by restoring dropped words, comparing nominative and objective forms, and clues like she vs her and I vs me.