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With or Without a Complement: Ending Sentences with Prepositions

“Do not end sentences with prepositions” is a common prescriptive grammar rule that grammar teachers drill into children. The rule is based on a Latin grammar model and is, therefore, not applicable to English grammar. More

in English Nouns, Linguistics

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect Objects

Nouns are traditionally defined as words that refer to a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is a phrase that consists of a noun plus any modifiers, complements, or determiners. A subcategory of nouns, pronouns are words that take the place of nouns and noun phrases. In grammar, an indirect object is word, […] More

in English Nouns, Linguistics

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Direct Objects

Nouns have traditionally been defined as words for people, places, things, and ideas. A noun phrase consists of a noun plus any modifiers, complements, and determiners that provide more information about the noun. Pronouns, which are a subcategory of nouns, are words that take the place of nouns and noun phrases. In grammar, a direct […] More

in Linguistics, Punctuation

English Punctuation

Learn about the rules for using punctuation marks in written English: apostrophes, braces, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, ellipses, hyphens, italics, parentheses, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, interrobangs, quotation marks, semicolons, and slashes. More

in English Nouns, Linguistics

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subject Complements

Learn about the use of nouns, pronouns, and noun phrases as subject complements in English grammar. More

in English Nouns, Linguistics

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subjects

A noun is traditionally defined as a word that denotes a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is a phrase consisting of a noun or pronoun and any modifiers, complements, or determiners. Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns which take the place of nouns and noun phrases. In grammar, a subject is a […] More

in English Pronouns, Linguistics

Evidence for the Death of the English Case System

Does the English language still have a grammatical case system as supported by the Modern English personal pronoun system? This article argues that, no, English pronouns do not show grammatical case and that, in fact, the English case system is dead. More

in English Pronouns, Linguistics

With or Without a Complement: Ending Sentences with Prepositions

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect Objects

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Direct Objects

English Punctuation

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subject Complements

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subjects

Evidence for the Death of the English Case System

The English Personal Pronoun System

Grammatical Tense

English Adjectives

English Nouns

The Form-Function Method: Teaching Grammar with Grammatical Form and Grammatical Function

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