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Real-life sentences

A lot of the examples in the Clauses section of Grammar for Teachers are very short and simple - sentences like Elephants like grass. But real-life sentences are usually a lot longer and more complicated.

Three types of sentence
We can divide sentences into three broad groups according to the number of clauses they contain and how these clauses are linked together.

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Introduction

Clause patterns

Noun phrases

Verbs

Adverbials

Sentences

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Using the guide

 

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