ENGLISH GRAMMAR-Colour Edition

English Grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the English language. This includes the structure of words phrases clauses and sentences right up to the structure of whole texts. There are historical social cultural and regional variations of English. Divergences from the grammar described here occur in some dialects. This article describes a generalized present-day standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse including broadcasting education entertainment government and news over a range of registers from formal to informal. There are differences in grammar between the standard forms of British American and Australian English although these are more minor than differences in vocabulary and pronunciation. Modern English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions. The personal Pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word Class (a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of old English). for other Pronouns and all Nouns Adjectives and articles grammatical function is indicated only by word order by Prepositions and by the Saxon genitive or English possessive (-S). eight word classes Or parts of Speech Are commonly distinguished in English: Nouns Determiners Pronouns verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions and Conjunctions. Nouns form the largest word Class.