
This free course provides a simple, foundational understanding of essential English grammar terms like nouns, verbs, subjects and objects, to help you analyze any sentence.
Explore the eight parts of speech and how nouns, verbs, and adjectives help you understand any English sentence, building a solid foundation for learning with notes and exercises.
Identify and understand nouns as things, people, places, or ideas, with examples like Timothy, a cat, Canada, eyes, and kindness.
Explore verbs as the action behind every sentence, learn how verb tense shows when actions happen, and distinguish infinitives and present, past, and future forms.
Learn how pronouns replace nouns to reduce repetition and connect to nouns. Apply subject pronouns before the verb and object pronouns after the verb.
Explore adjectives that describe nouns and their placement before the noun or after the verb be, with adjectives staying singular, as in fast car, big house, and tall man.
Explore how adverbs modify verbs to show how and how often actions occur, and learn to place them before the verb while noting be exceptions and ly endings.
Explore prepositions as connector words that indicate location, time, and with whom actions occur. See examples like on, under, in, to, and with to illustrate usage and clarify sentence meaning.
Explore conjunctions and how they connect ideas, nouns, and sentences using and, or, and but, with examples that show how they join people, sports, and choices.
Discover interjections, easiest and flexible part of speech, using sounds rather than real words to express feelings. Learn examples like whoops, oops, and ouch, and when not to use them.
Identify how articles and determiners come before nouns to indicate specificity and number. Choose 'a', 'the', this, these, that, or those, and remember singular nouns require an article or determiner.
Master the subject-verb-object foundation of English sentence structure, identifying the subject, verb, and object. Learn how to place time and place phrases at sentence ends or beginnings without breaking SVO.
Explore the three main sentence types—affirmative, negative, and question—and learn how to form them in the present tense using am, do, and not or don't, with clear question structure.
Explore the 12 English verb tenses, including past, present, and future variations—simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous. Start with the simple tenses, practice steadily, and aim to master them.
Identify the main verb and helping verb, learn how to form present simple and present continuous, and practice turning sentences into negative or questions with the appropriate helping verb.
Explore the three essential English verbs be, have, and do and their role as helping verbs. Understand their use in continuous and perfect tenses, and recognize common form errors.
Explore the essential English verb be, its many forms, and how am, is, and are match with subjects, location, and descriptions, including its role as a helping verb.
Explore the verb have as a main verb and as a helping verb, and learn its present, past, and present perfect forms with examples.
Explore the essential English verb do, its forms, and its use as a main and helping verb. Learn do vs does, questions, negatives, and past tense with did.
Master the foundations of English grammar in this free course, and prepare to enroll in the full Udemy grammar course, which covers all 12 verb tenses and a complete e-book.
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Hello Friends,
Welcome to this FREE introduction to English Grammar course.
That’s right!
This course is 100% free!
Why?
Well I want to help everyone reach their English language goals, and this course gives you the essential information to start studying English grammar.
This course is an introduction course so this course will help you to build a good foundation when studying English.
Many English grammar courses talk about things like nouns, verbs, subject, objects …
But they never really explain what are those things, and how they work!
Well this course will start with the basics in an easy to understand simple way.
After this course, you will be able to look at ANY sentence in English, and understand:
· the sentence structure
· the types of words in the sentence
· how those types of words work
This course is useful for:
· English beginner students – start with a good foundation of English
· English intermediate students – gain a deeper understanding of the grammar rules that will help you become more advanced
· English advanced students – reinforce your understanding of English grammar and ensure you have a strong foundation
· TOEFL/IELTS students – this course will improve your English overall so you can achieve a higher score
· Students who have to take an English proficiency test – with a solid understanding of English, you will be able to achieve a higher score
The course is 100% free, so why not give it a shot?
See you in the course!
Ross