grammer rules english act

Gr1

Less is more: go with shortest unless unreasonable

Gr2

Pause on commas

Gr3

Sentences contain 3 things:subject,verb and a complete thought

Gr4

Subject agree with their verbs in number(singular or plural)

Gr5

When stuck cross out prepositional phrases and extra info

Gr6

One owner:’s. More than one:s’

Gr 7

When between an contraction and a normal say the contraction out fully

Gr8

Semicolon=,and

Colon=examples after

-=typically after complete thought

Gr9

Learn difference between commonly used words and go with gut if don’t know

Gr10

To combined two sentences you need ; or comma and

Gr11

Irregular verbs just go with your gut

Gr12

Prepositional phrases begin with prepositions and end with nouns or pronouns but never have a subject

Gr13

Extra info uses two commas,dashes or parentheses around it but make sure that it is not a complete thought cuz that is still possible

Gr14

Parallelism stay with the trend within the sentence or paragraph

Gr15

Pronouns: just watch a video and understand them

Gr16

For transitional words just read the pervious sentence and go with what makes the most sense

Gr17

A modifying clause goes next to what it modifies

Gr18

Not real words:irregardless,funner,where at,its’,could of,thier

Gr19

Comparing multiple things

Two things:er,more,less

Three or more:est,most,least