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The different levels of grammar

Grammar works at five different levels.

Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten terrible seconds.

The dew from the trees above spattered down like rain on the unseen backs, and a dull booming noise began, not very loud at first, and Little Toomai could not tell what it was.

The dew from the trees above spattered down like rain on the unseen backs

a dull booming noise began, not very loud at first

Little Toomai could not tell

what it was

The dew from the trees above

spattered

down

like rain

The

dew

from

the

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Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten terrible seconds. The dew from the trees above spattered down like rain on the unseen backs, and a dull booming noise began, not very loud at first, and Little Toomai could not tell what it was.

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What is grammar?

 

Grammar levels

 

Types of sentence

 

Introduction

 

Subject+verb

 

Subject+verb+object

 

Subject+verb+object+object

 

Subject+verb+complement

 

Subject+verb+object+complement

 

Subject+verb+adverbial

 

Subject+verb+object+adverbial

 

Introduction

 

Proper & common nouns

 

Countable & uncountable

 

What are pronouns?

 

Types of pronoun

 

Noun phrases

 

Determiners

 

Premodifiers

 

Postmodifiers

 

Adjectives

 

Meaning of 'verb'

 

Verbs as word class

 

Main verbs

 

Auxiliary verbs

 

Verbs as clause element

 

English tenses

 

Active & passive

 

Adverbs & adverbials

 

Adverbs

 

Adverbials

 

Adjuncts

 

Conjuncts

 

Disjuncts

 

Prepositional phrases

 

Real life sentences

 

Simple sentences

 

Compound sentences

 

Complex sentences

 

Nominal clauses

 

Adverbial clauses