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EnglishFirst Grammar
Index
A B C DE F G H IJKL M N O P Q R S TU V WXYZ
A
Agreement, adjectives
Agreement, nouns
Active voice
Adjectives
Adjectives, demonstrative
Adjectives, possessive
Adverbs
Adverbs, interrogative
Articles, definite
Articles, indefinite
Articles, partitive
Auxiliaries
B
"Be"
Belong (possession)
C
Causative constructions
Comparatives
Conditional
Conditional, pastl
DE
Definite articles
Demonstratives
Direct discourse
Discourse, indirect
"Do"
F
Future, indicated by "go"
future perfect tense
future progressive tense
simple future
G
Gender, adjectives
Gender, nouns
"Go" (to indicate the immediate future)
H
Habitual actions in the past
"Has"
"Have"
Helping verbs
IJKL
Imperative (commands)
Indefinite articles
"-ing" (present participle)
Interrogatives
Irregular past participles
Irregular preterits
Irregular verb forms
Inversion (syntax)
M
"Make"
Modal verbs ("will," "should," etc.)
N
Near future tense
"Never"
"No one"
Nouns
"Nothing"
"Nowhere"
O
Object pronouns
"Only"
Order of prepositions
Order of pronouns
Order of words
P
Participle, present
Partitive articles
Passive
Past (habitual past)
Past conditional
Past participles (irregular)
Past progressive
Perfect (future)
Perfect (present)
Plural of adjectives
Plural of nouns
Pluperfect
Possession
Present perfect
Present participle
Preterit
Prepositions
Prepositions (verbal)
Prepositions & verbs
Present perfect
Present perfect progressive
Present progressive
Present
Preterit (irregular forms)
Preterit
Progressive, future
Progressive, past
Progressive, present
Progressive, present perfect
Pronouns, demonstratives
Pronouns, interrogatives
Pronouns, possessives
Pronouns, reciprocal
Pronouns, reflexives
Pronouns, relative
Pronouns, subject-object
Q
Questions
R
Reciprocal pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns
S
Subjunctive
Subject pronouns
Superlatives
TU
"That"
V
Verbal prepositions
Verbs (general information)
Verbs (modals)
Verbs with prepositions
WXYZ
Was
Which (relative pronoun)
Which (interrogative adjective and pronoun)
Who, what, when (question words)
Whose
Adjectives
Forms
Usage
Related topics
Forms
Adjectives are generally invariable in English and do not agree with nouns in number and gender; nor do they take case endings:
a blue car
the great outdoors
a group of young women
However, a few adjectives have a connotation which is slightly masculine or feminine. Thus, one says that a woman is beautiful while a man would be called handsome.
Adjectives indicating religion or nationality (or a region, state or province) generally begin with a capital letter, whether they refer to people or objects:
She is an American student.
They go to a Catholic school.
They enjoy Breton music.
Usage:
In a noun cluster an adjective will be placed, with very few exceptions, in front of the noun it modifies. When two adjectives precede a noun, they can be connected by a comma (,) or by the conjunction"and." In a series of three or more adjectives, one usually uses "and" before the last adjective in the list.
Examples:
I like short novels.
That fellow will be a competent worker.
She writes long and flowery letters.
He works long, hard hours.
She had a mean, old and overbearing step-mother.
An adjective may follow the noun when it is in a predicate (after the verb) or in a relative clause. (In relative clauses the relative pronoun may be implicit.)
Examples:
He was a man (who was) always happy to help others.
She is a woman (who is) true to herself.
They were entirely satisfied.
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