Includes bibliographical references.

Chronicle of the English language : Definition -- 5th and 6th centuries English words -- Old English words -- Borrowed words -- Early modern English -- Modern English words -- American English -- Processed words -- New words of the 20th century -- Grammar Activities -- The use of nouns : Kinds of nouns -- Using little and a little -- Using few and a few with count nouns -- Using some and any in count and mass nouns -- Countable and uncountable nouns -- Adjective with countable and uncountable nouns -- Gender of nouns -- Plural form of nouns -- Cases of noun -- Forming possessive noun -- Grammar activities -- Recognizing pronouns : Kinds of pronouns -- Cases of pronouns -- Pronoun-antecedent agreement -- Grammar activities -- Recognizing verbs : Kinds of verbs -- Linking verbs -- Auxiliary verbs -- Auxiliary verb usage -- Tenses of the verbs -- Perfect tenses -- Progressive tense -- Present perfect progressive -- Subject verb agreement -- Grammar activities -- Recognizing adjectives : Classes of adjectives -- Distinguishing between adjectives and pronouns -- Identifying the class adjectives -- Position of adjectives -- The royal order of adjectives -- Making comparisons -- Comparison of adjectives -- Comparative and superlative forms of adjective and adverbs -- Grammar activities -- Understanding adverbs : Adverbs answering three questions -- The royal order of adverbs -- Using adjectives and adverbs -- Using adjective with linking verbs -- Using conjunctive adverbs -- Comparing adjective and adverb -- Comparing with adverb -- Grammar activities -- Using conjunctions : Types of conjunctions -- Types of conjunction adverbs -- Grammar activities -- Verbals: Gerunds, participles & infinitives : Gerund -- Common verbs followed by gerund -- Participle -- Infinitives -- Common verbs followed by infinitives -- Grammar activities -- Recognizing prepositions : Definition -- Commonly used prepositions -- Understanding how to use prepositional phrase -- Function of prepositions as subordinate conjunctions -- Prepositions: locators in place and time -- Prepositions of time: at, on and in -- Prepositions of place: at, on and in -- Prepositions of location -- Preposition of movement: to and no preposition -- Prepositions of time: for and since -- Preposition with noun, adjective and verbs -- Idiomatic expression with prepositions -- Preposition in parallel form -- Grammar activities -- The interjections : position of the interjection in the sentence -- Kinds and uses of interjections -- The most common interjections -- Grammar activities -- Basic sentence patterns : Subject and predicate -- unusual sentences -- Simple subject and simple predicate -- Sentence fragment -- Kinds of sentences -- Objects and complements -- Transitive and intransitive verbs -- Subject complement -- Objective complement -- Grammar activities.