A Complete Course in English Grammar
A Complete Course in English Grammar From Beginner to Very Advanced A structured reference and workbook in four levels, with worked examples, common-error analysis, and exercises August 2, 2026
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — app-answer-key
C Answer Key Where several answers are possible, the most natural one is given first; acceptable alternatives follow in parentheses. Chapter 1 1.11 C 2 U 3 U 4 U 5 C (= an article) 6 U 1.2 1 an engineer; a European compa
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — app-glossary
B Glossary of Grammatical Terms adjunct An optional element adding circumstantial information (time, place, manner):She resigned last week. agreement (concord) Matching of grammatical features, chiefly subject and verb i
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — app-irregular-verbs
A Irregular Verbs The list below covers the irregular verbs an advanced learner needs. Verbs markedB have a com- mon regular alternative in British English (learned/learnt, dreamed/dreamt); A marks distinctively American
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch01-nouns-articles
1 Nouns, Articles, and Plurals Nouns name people, places, things, and ideas:teacher, city, water, happiness. Almost every English sentence is built around nouns, so we begin here. 1.1 Countable and uncountable nouns Engl
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch02-pronouns-determiners
2 Pronouns and Determiners Pronouns stand in for nouns so that we do not have to repeat them:Maria lostherkeys, butshe found them later.Determiners (this, some, every, my...) come before nouns and specify which or how ma
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch03-be-have-present
3 Be, Have, and the Present Tenses 3.1 The verb be Beis the most irregular — and most important — verb in English. Present Past Contractions I am was I’m, I’m not you / we / they are were you’re, they aren’t he / she / i
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch04-past-future
4 The Past Simple and Talking About the Future 4.1 The past simple 4.1.1 Form Regular verbs add-ed: work → worked, play → played. Spelling: stop → stopped (double the consonant), study → studied(-y → -ied), live → lived
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch05-adjectives-adverbs-prepositions
5 Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions 5.1 Adjectives Adjectives describe nouns. In English they are invariable — no agreement for number or gender: a tall man, tall women, a tall building. 5.1.1 Position • Attributive(
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch06-questions-negatives-sentences
6 Questions, Negatives, and Sentence Patterns 6.1 Basic word order: SVO English relies on word order to show who does what. The core pattern issubject–verb–object (SVO): The dog (S) chased (V) the cat (O). Unlike many la
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch07-tense-aspect
7 The Tense–Aspect System: Perfect and Progressive English combines two tenses (past, present) and two aspects (progressive, perfect) into a rich system. This chapter completes the picture begun in Chapters 3 and 4, focu
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch08-modals
8 Modal Verbs The modal verbs arecan, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, plus the semi-modals ought to, need, dare, used toand phrasal alternatives (have to, be able to, be allowed to, be supposed to).
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch09-conditionals-wishes
9 Conditionals and Wishes Conditional sentences link a condition (if-clause) to a result (main clause). English distinguishes real from unreal conditions by shifting the tenses “one step back”. 9.1 The four classic patte
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch10-passive
10 The Passive Voice In an active sentence the subject acts; in a passive sentence the subject is acted upon:Shakespeare wrote Hamlet →Hamletwas writtenby Shakespeare. 10.1 Form be (in the required tense) + past particip
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch11-gerunds-infinitives
11 Gerunds, Infinitives, and Verb Patterns When one verb follows another, English forces a choice:enjoy doing, decide to do, let someonedo. These patterns must largely be memorized, but there are useful regularities. 11.
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch12-relative-clauses
12 Relative Clauses Relative clauses let us pack information about a noun into the same sentence:The womanwho lives next door is a surgeon. 12.1 The relative pronouns For people For things Subject who, that which, that O
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch13-reported-speech
13 Reported Speech Reported (indirect) speech relays what someone said without quoting the exact words:“I’m tired,” she said→She said (that) she was tired. 13.1 The backshift of tenses When the reporting verb is past (sa
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch14-comparison-quantifiers
14 Comparison, Quantifiers, and Articles Revisited This chapter deepens three areas introduced at beginner level: comparison structures, quantifier subtleties, and the article system at intermediate level. 14.1 Advanced
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch15-phrasal-verbs
15 Phrasal Verbs and Prepositional Verbs A phrasal verb is a verb plus one or two particles whose combined meaning is often not predictable from the parts:give up(= quit),put off(= postpone),run into(= meet by chance). T
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch16-advanced-tense-aspect
16 Advanced Tense and Aspect At advanced level, tense choice becomes a matter of perspective and rhetoric, not just rules. This chapter examines the subtler corners of the system. 16.1 Aspect as viewpoint Aspect does not
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch17-advanced-conditionals-subjunctive
17 Advanced Conditionals and the Subjunctive 17.1 Mixed conditionals Real reasoning often crosses time zones: a past cause with a present result, or a present cause with a past result. Mix the halves of the second and th
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch18-inversion-fronting-clefts
18 Inversion, Fronting, and Cleft Sentences English word order is rigid — which is exactly why deliberate departures from it carry so much emphasis. This chapter covers the three main emphasis-shifting devices. 18.1 Nega
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch19-participle-clauses
19 Participle, Absolute, and Reduced Clauses Participle clauses compress full clauses into elegant phrases — the signature of mature written English. Because she felt tired, she went home early→Feeling tired, she went ho
記事を読む →English Grammar Course — ch20-nominalization-ellipsis
20 Nominalization, Ellipsis, and Substitution 20.1 Nominalization Nominalization turns verbs and adjectives into nouns:decide → decision, grow→ growth, accurate →accuracy, fail→ failure. It is the engine of abstract, aca
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