Perfect English Grammar Newbie

Since you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you or someone you know needs help with their language. To help as many people as possible, I’ve written this app to be useful for a wide range of readers, writers, and learners: junior high, high school, and college students; graduate students who speak English as a second (or even third) language; or business professionals and community leaders who need a refresher on grammar points they last thought about decades ago.
This app does not cover all of English grammar. Instead, it contains frequently asked questions and language learners of all ages and kinds. It also includes facts that were eye-openers for me when I first started on my journey of communicating better. I hope this app will be your trusted companion as you express all that you have to say.

This app contains:
CONTENTS

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How to Use This

What Does It Mean by “Perfect Grammar”?

1.0

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

2.0

COMPOSITION

2.1 A Few Words of Advice

2.2 Getting Started

2.2.1 Write for the Correct Audience

2.2.2 Opening Sentences

2.3 Paragraph Structure

2.3.1 Paragraph Topic

2.3.2 Body and Supporting Sentences

2.3.3 Number of Sentences in a Paragraph

2.3.4 Conclusion

2.4 Example Paragraphs

2.5 The Five-Paragraph Essay

2.6 Transitions and Coherence

2.7 Common Essay Mistakes to Avoid

2.8 Editing

3.0

PARTS OF SPEECH DEFINED

4.0

SPELLING AND FORMATTING

4.1 Improve Your Spelling

4.2 Common Spelling Errors

4.2.1 British Spelling versus American Spelling

4.2.2 Homophone Spelling Errors

4.3 Common Spelling Rules

4.3.1 I before E

4.3.2 Adding a Suffix and Dropping the E

4.3.3 Adding Suffixes to Words Ending in Y

4.3.4 Double the Final Consonant When Adding Suffixes

4.4 Affixes

4.4.1 Inflected Endings

4.4.2 Derivational Suffixes

4.4.3 Infixes

4.4.4 Common Prefixes

4.4.5 Common Suffixes

4.5 Contractions

4.5.1 It’s and It’d

4.5.2 Old-Fashioned Contractions

4.5.3 Y’all

4.5.4 Let’s

4.6 Proper Nouns that End in S

4.7 Common Possessive Mistakes to Avoid

4.7.1 Its versus It’s

4.8 Dates

4.8.1 Date Abbreviations

4.8.2 Decades and Years

4.8.3 Time and the Clock

4.8.4 Idiomatic Time Measurements

4.9 Numbers

4.9.1 Partial Numbers

4.9.2 Writing Numbers

4.9.3 Percentages as Numbers

4.9.4 Numbers that Start Sentences

4.9.5 Place Punctuation in Numbers

4.9.6 Saying Numbers as Words

4.9.7 Zero versus Oh

4.9.8 Saying Phone Numbers

4.9.9 Writing Amounts of Money

5.0

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

5.1 Subjects and Predicates

5.2 Subject-Verb Agreement

5.3 Objects

5.4 Clauses

5.5 Subordinators

5.6 Phrases

5.6.1 Noun Phrases

5.6.2 Verb Phrases

5.6.3 Prepositional Phrases

5.6.4 Absolute Phrases

5.7 Complements

6.0

VERBS

6.1 Person

6.2 Number

6.3 Aspect

6.4 Tense

6.4.1 Past Tense

6.4.2 Present Tense

6.4.3 Future Tense

6.5 Mood

6.6 Voice

6.7 Conjugating Verbs

6.7.1 Now

6.7.2 In the Past

6.7.3 Continuous Action

6.8 Action Verbs

6.9 Linking Verbs

6.10 Auxiliary Verbs

6.11 Modal Verbs

6.11.1 Multiple Modals

6.12 Irregular Verb Inflections

6.13 Lay versus Lie

6.14 Gotten

6.15 Brung

6.16 Writing with Consistent Tenses

6.16.1 Choosing Your Tense

6.17 Phrasal Verbs

7.0

DETERMINERS

8.0

NOUNS

8.1 Compound Nouns

8.2 Possessives

8.3 Collective Nouns

8.3.1 Fun Collective Nouns

8.4 Count Nouns and Non-Count Nouns

8.5 Definite and Indefinite Articles with Nouns

8.5.1 An Historic versus A Historic

8.6 Plurals
8.6.1 Plurals of Some Greek and Latin Words

8.6.2 Words Ending in O

8.6.3 Words with No Singular or No Plural

8.6.4 Words that Look Plural But Aren’t

8.6.5 Apostrophes Don’t Make Words Plural

8.6.6 Plurals of Some Compound Nouns

8.6.7 Common Problems with Plurals

8.6.8 Plural of Data

8.7 Proper Nouns

8.8 Definite Article and Proper Nouns

8.8.1 Common Problems with Proper Nouns

8.9 Nouns into Verbs