Rules of English Grammar

What is a word?
A word can be divided into its root (the basic part of the word
containing its meaning) and its Prefixes/ Suffixes (the things added
at the start or end of the root to indicate things like a noun or a
plural or a verb is in the past tense).
Example:
1. Root: dog
Suffix: s in dogs
2. Root: run
Suffix: s in runs
What is a sentence?
A sentence comprises of the following:
1. Subject: It is the doer/ performer of the action which is taking
place in the sentence. It may be a person, thing or topic which
the sentence deals with. To discover the subject, ask who or
what before the verb.
For example:
The sky is blue.
What is the subject in this sentence? Ask the question: What
is Blue?
Answer: The sky is blue.
2. Predicate: The predicate is the entire part of the sentence
without the subject.
For example:
The sky is blue.
The predicate here is is blue.
3. Object: The object is the part of the sentence on which the
action is being done. It is the person or thing on which the
action or the verb is carried out by the subject. To discover the
object, ask who or what after the verb.
For example:
Rohit cheated me.
Rohit cheated who?
Answer: me
4. Complement: Whatever comes after the verb to be is the
complement. After the verb to be ( is/ am/ are in Present
tense and was/ were in Past tense) there is no object
since the noun which follows refers to the same thing as that

which precedes the verb (the subject). The noun following the
verb to be is called the complement.
For example:
She is a girl.
This is the Sudoku Puzzle.
Parts of Speech
These are the basic formative parts of English language without
which the understanding of the nuances of any language cannot be
developed. They are the building blocks of the English language.
In English we can categorize the parts of speech into 8 basic types
or classes. These classes are called parts of speech.
Part
Speech
Verb
Noun

Adjective

Adverb
Pronoun
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection

of Purpose

Examples

Sentences using
the
Part
of
Speech
Action or state
(to) be, have, I go to my school
do, like, work, daily.
sing, can, must
Thing or person
Pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He
music,
city, lives in my house.
Delhi, teacher, We live in Delhi.
Ram
Describes a noun a/an,
the, My car is fast. I
some,
good, like fast cars.
big, red, well,
interesting
Describes a verb Quickly,
My
dog
eats
silently
quickly.
Replaces a noun
I, you, he, she, My
friend
is
some
African. He lives in
India.
Links a noun to To, at, after, on, We went to school
another word
but
on Saturday.
Joins clauses or And, but, when I like dogs and I
sentences
or
like cats.
words
Short
Oh!, ouch!, hi!, Ouch! That hurts.
exclamation,
well
sometimes
inserted into a
sentence