The parts of speech in English
(English word classes or lexical categories)
List
- Basics about parts of speech
- Determiners in grammar
- Overview: adjectives (far, happy, …)
- Adjectives (old, nice, …)
- Adjectives: comparison (as … as, more/less … than)
- Adjectives: comparison (-er/-est)
- Adjectives: comparison (positive)
- Adjectives: comparison (comparative)
- Adjectives: comparison (superlative)
- Adjectives: comparison with special adjective forms
- Exercise 1: comparison of adjectives (-er/-est; more/most)
- Exercise 2: comparison of adjectives (-er/-est; more/most)
- Exercise 3: comparison of adjectives (old, elder, further, etc.)
- Exercise 4: comparison of adjectives (late, latest, near, etc.)
- Adjectives: order
- Overview: adverbs (well, hardly, …)
- Overview: articles (the, a/an)
- Overview: conjunctions (and, but, …)
- Overview: interjections (ouch, yeah, …)
- Overview: nouns (car, house, …)
- Overview: prepositions (in, by, …)
- Overview: pronouns (my, they, …)
- Overview: verbs (drink, done, …)
- Verbs: general considerations
- Difference: auxiliary and main verb
- Regular verbs
- Verbs: conjugation
- Verbs: present participle (ing-form)
- Verbs: past participle (ed-form)
- Verbs: imperative mood
- Verbs: subjunctive mood
- Verbs: gerund
- Verbs: infinitive
- Comparison: simple or continuous
- Verbs: stative verbs
- Verb tables and lists
- Irregular verbs list (A–Z)
- Regular active voice forms in all tenses (example ‘to talk’)
- Irregular active voice forms in all tenses (example ‘to eat’)
- Auxiliary and lexical verb ‘to have’ (forms in all tenses)
- Auxiliary and lexical verb ‘to be’ (forms in all tenses)
- Modal verb ‘must’ (forms & substitute)
- Modal verb ‘can’ (forms & substitute)
- Auxiliary and lexical verb ‘to do’ (forms in all tenses)
- List of exercises: irregular verbs
- Declension (inflection) in English
- List of exercises: parts of speech
- Tricky word combinations and topics
- (a) little & (a) few (use)
- Are animals ‘he, she’ or ‘it’?
- are you?; is he (question tags)
- been & gone (difference)
- do & make (difference)
- have & have got (difference)
- in the end & at the end (difference)
- in time & on time (difference)
- interesting & interested (difference)
- it’s & its (use)
- much, many & a lot (use)
- one & ones (prop-words)
- since & for (use)
- so & such (difference)
- some & any (use)
- there is/are (use)
- to be/get used to … (use)
- to, too, two (difference)
- used to + infinitive (use)
- what, why, who, … (question words)
- yet & already (use)
- List of exercises: tricky grammar topics
- Numbers, numerals, time specifications