Study guide: Core English Grammar Rules

📋 Course Outline

1. Word Placement and Adjective Rules
2. Verb Complements and Auxiliaries
3. Articles Possession and Agreement

📖 1. Word Placement and Adjective Rules

📝 Essential Points

• Adverbs are placed before the verb.

• Adjectives are invariable and are placed before the noun.

• Verbs and expressions of taste are followed by a noun or by a verb ending in -ing.

📖 2. Verb Complements and Auxiliaries

📝 Essential Points

• Modal auxiliaries are always followed by an unconjugated verb.

• In negative sentences and questions, an auxiliary must be used, and the auxiliary carries the marking of tense and person.

• Verbs and expressions of will are followed by to plus a verb.

📖 3. Articles Possession and Agreement

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Genitive: The genitive in English, marked by 's, expresses kinship or possession and replaces the French structure meaning “the ... of ...”.

★ Must-know

• English uses no article before sports names but uses the definite article THE before musical instruments.

• A verb conjugated in the present tense takes -s in the third-person singular.

• In English, grammatical gender applies only to human beings and famous monuments, so IT is used for all other nouns.

Further detail

• The sentence “He play piano every day” is corrected to “He plays the piano every day” because the third-person singular requires -s and musical instruments take THE.

💡 Memory Hook

No article with sports, but THE with musical instruments.