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2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English ... The song to which you were listening ... and mouse are both correct. The same applies to other ...

3. English passive voice - Wikipedia

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   The passive voice is a specific grammatical construction. The essential components, in English, are a form of the stative verb be (or sometimes get [4]) and the past participle of the verb denoting the action.

4. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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   In older dialects and more formal registers, the form "were" is often used instead of "was". Counterfactuals of this sort are sometimes referred to as were'd up conditionals. [2] Were'd up: If I were king, I could have you thrown in the dungeon. The form "were" can also be used with an infinitive to form a future less vivid conditional. [3]

5. American and British English grammatical differences

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   However, in British grammar, it is also possible for should and would to have the same meaning, with a distinction only in terms of formality (should simply being more formal than would). For most Americans, this nuance has been lost, with would being used in both contexts; [ 22 ] for example, I should like to leave is no longer a formal way to ...

6. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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   The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) says of complex prepositions, In the first place, there is a good deal of inconsistency in the traditional account, as reflected in the practice of dictionaries, as to which combinations are analysed as complex prepositions and which as sequences of adverb + preposition.

7. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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   Adjectives make the meaning of another word (noun) more precise. Verb (states action or being) a word denoting an action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be). Without a verb, a group of words cannot be a clause or sentence. Adverb (describes, limits) a modifier of an adjective, verb, or another adverb (very, quite). Adverbs make ...