Grammar Mastery: Learn the Fundamentals of Grammar

Identify who or what a sentence is about and classify nouns as concrete or abstract, common or proper. Recognize collective nouns and capitalization rules with examples.

Identify verbs by action or state of being, master subject-verb agreement and tense (present, past, future), and recognize regular, irregular, participles, and infinitives.

Explore how English articles convey meaning: use a or an before vowels, the for specific nouns, and geography and population exceptions with practical examples.

Explore how pronouns replace nouns with clear antecedents and master gender, number, and person agreement to fix unclear or repetitive sentences.

Explore pronoun categories and cases, including demonstrative, intensive, reflexive, indefinite, relative, interrogative, and reciprocal, and learn to choose subjective or objective forms for clear, correct sentences.

Explore how adverbs express degree and modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, and learn to distinguish adverbs from adjectives using examples like quickly, swiftly, really, slightly, and extremely.

Explore how adjectives and adverbs describe nouns and pronouns, compare forms with correct use of tall, taller, tallest, avoid double superlatives, and correct misplaced or dangling modifiers.

Master the four types of conjunctions—coordinating, subordinating, correlative, and conjunctive adverbs—connect phrases, words, and clauses, including independent clauses, with correct punctuation such as commas and semicolons.

Explore how prepositions link sentence parts to show relationships and form prepositional phrases. Identify pronoun case, ensure proper subject-verb agreement, and navigate endings with prepositions for clean, precise grammar.

Explore the difference between phrases and clauses, identify dependent and independent clauses, and learn to fix run-ons, fragments, and comma splices using commas, semicolons, and subordinating conjunctions.

Identify restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses to distinguish essential information from extra detail, using that or which and commas to clarify meaning.

Master basic sentence structures—simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex—and learn how subjects and verbs, independent and dependent clauses shape clear writing, with diagramming.

Master parallel structure by identifying gerunds, participles, and infinitives, and apply consistent verbal forms to fix mismatched elements for clear, parallel sentences.

Learn to mark ownership with apostrophes, distinguish singular vs plural possession, identify joint ownership, and use whose instead of who's for possessive pronouns.

Master active voice and passive voice by analyzing when the subject performs versus receives action, and choose based on context, emphasis, and tone.

Explore sound-alikes and look-alikes, and learn to choose correct forms using examples such as there/their/they're, its/it's, cite/sight/site, and farther/further.

Explore word meanings, spellings, and parts of speech by examining words with multiple meanings and similar sounds, such as sit, set, lie, and lay, through irregular verbs and contextual examples.

Master rules for writing numbers: spell out one to ten, use numerals for 11 and above, and apply three exceptions for sentence starts, series consistency, and side by side numbers.

Explore how the comma shapes meaning, from direct address and appositive to date and location separation, and review the serial comma, colon, quotation marks, dash, and hyphen usage.

Master the use of adjectives and adverbs by distinguishing when words like bad/badly and good/well describe nouns or modify verbs, including state-of-being versus action verbs.

Explore how to decide between adjective and adverb forms, focusing on bad and badly, good and well, and distinguish state-of-being verbs from action verbs in real sentences.