Grammar

Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. The set of rules governing a particular language is the grammar of that language; thus, each language can be said to have its own distinct grammar.

Note that the word grammar has two meanings here: the first is the inner rules themselves and the second is our description and study of those rules.

When a grammar is fully explicit about all possible constructions within a specific language, it is called generative grammar. A particular type of generative grammar that has become the leading framework in modern linguistics is transformational grammar which was first proposed by Noam Chomsky. Grammar is part of the general study of language called linguistics. Grammar is a way of thinking about language. As the word is understood by most modern linguists, the subfields of grammar are phonetics, phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Traditionally, however, grammar included only morphology and syntax.

We hope that you find these grammar resources useful. Please use the menu on the left or the links below.

• Subjects and Verbs
• Subject and Verb Agreement
• Pronouns
• Who and Whom
• Whoever and Whomever
• Who v Which v That
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Confusing Words and Homonyms
• Fragments
• Capital Letters