english grammar
61grammar — noun Etymology: Middle English gramere, from Anglo French gramaire, modification of Latin grammatica, from Greek grammatikē, from feminine of grammatikos of letters, from grammat , gramma more at gram Date: 14th century 1. a. the study of the… …
62English writing style — An English writing style is a way of using the English language.The style of a piece of writing is the way in which features of the language are used to convey meaning, typically but not always within the constraints of more widely accepted… …
63English conjugation tables — This is a paradigm of English verbs, that is, a set of conjugation tables, for the model regular verbs and for some of the most common irregular verbs. The tables analyze English according to a traditional grammar perspective.=Mood, tense, voice …
64American and British English differences — For the Wikipedia editing policy on use of regional variants in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of style#National varieties of English. This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which …
65Old English — For other uses, see Old English (disambiguation). Old English Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc Spoken in England (except the extreme southwest and northwest), parts of modern Scotland south east of the Forth, and the eastern fringes of modern Wales …
66Systemic functional grammar — (SFG) or systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is a model of grammar that was developed by Michael Halliday in the 1960s. [http://www.isfla.org/Systemics/Definition/definition.html, accessed 30 July 2008] It is part of a broad social semiotic… …
67Common English usage misconceptions — Text from Robert Louis Stevenson s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as it would appear in a professionally published edition in the United States today, featuring one sentence paragraphs, sentences beginning with the conjunctions but and and …
68Spanish grammar — SpanishSpanish ( español, castellano ) is a language originating in North Central Spain which is spoken throughout Spain, most countries in the Americas, the Philippines and Equatorial Guinea. It is an inflected language, with a two gender system …
69History of linguistic prescription in English — Prescription is the formulation of normative rules for language use. This article discusses the history of prescription in English. For a more general discussion see Linguistic prescription. OriginsLanguages, especially standard languages or… …
70Contraction (grammar) — This article is about contraction in the grammar of modern languages, which involves elision. For contraction in Ancient Greek, the coalescence of two vowels into one, see crasis. For the linguistic function of pronouncing vowels together, see… …
