Scribendi's Ultimate Guide to English Grammar Rules

Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers. They provide extra description of what's happening in your sentence. However, be careful. Many people confuse adjectives with adverbs and vice versa. Before you read any further, start with the following post.

Once you understand the difference between an adjective and an adverb, read these posts.

Articles ("a," "an," and "the") are small but mighty. They provide information about the nouns that they precede.

Conjunctions are the great connectors of the grammar world. They'll help you link various elements and highlight their relationships.

A grammatically correct sentence will always need a subject or implied subject. This is where nouns and pronouns come in. They can act as subjects and as objects.

Prepositions are used to create prepositional phrases. They connect a noun or pronoun to another element in your sentence and describe their relationship.

Punctuation gives shape to your sentences and tells the reader how to interpret them. Since there are so many forms of punctuation, we've provided some helpful subcategories below.

Speaking of grammatically correct sentences, in addition to a subject, you'll always need a predicate. A predicate contains at least one verb as well as any other objects or modifiers that describe what the subject does or is.