Learn how to form and use comparative and superlative modifiers.
Grammar guide for English 101. This course builds critical reading and expository writing skills through the analysis and evaluation of college-level texts and the composition of well-organized, full-length essays containing properly documented evidence.
There's this idea in grammar called grammatical person that helps describe who's being talked about in a sentence. David, KA's Grammar Fellow, explains.
We've established that verbs can show actions and link ideas together. Now, let's talk about how some verbs can be used to help other verbs.
David, Khan Academy's Grammar Fellow, covers three nifty features of indefinite pronouns, which are pronouns that are just a little vague, y'know?
Words like 'very' and 'slightly' are examples of intensifiers and adverbs of degree. Here's how they work!
When you match up the subject of a sentence with a verb, it's called 'agreement'. Here's how it works!
Words like "walk" and "look" are regular verbs – they behave in a predictable way. But there's a whole class of words in English, called irregular verbs, that are harder to predict. David, KA's Grammar Fellow, explains.
A noun is a word that describes a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples of nouns include names, locations, objects in the physical world, or objects and concepts that do not exist in the physical world; for example, a dream or a theory.
Learn the difference between singular and plural nouns.
If verb tense allows you to control the past, the present, and the future, then aspect gives you even finer control over time. David, Khan Academy's resident grammarian, explains. Created by David Rheinstrom.
Let's explore what verbs are, and what they do! David, KA's Grammar Fellow, explains.
An understanding of verb tense will make you into a TIME WIZARD, with the ability to control the past, the present, and the future – with your words, anyway.
Adjectives are the words we use to modify nouns. David explains how, with the help of a bear.
Adverbs are a kind of modifier that you can use to change verbs or adjectives, like 'very' or 'carefully'.
Articles—words like the, a, and an—are special adjectives we use to indicate whether a noun is specific or not specific.
Find out how to be "happier" or even "the happiest!".
Some nouns look the same whether they're singular or plural – these nouns are called "base plurals", and we'll demonstrate how they behave the only way I know how... by using sheep!
You don't need to know how to speak Latin and Greek in order to understand English, but some words in English come from those languages. It's helpful to know how some Greek and Latin words change from singular to plural.
The plural of "dog" is "dogs", but what is the plural of "leaf"? Khan Academy's resident grammarian explains.