English Grammar — Study Path Agent

Chapter 1

Parts of Speech (the building blocks)

1

Nouns & Pronouns

2

Verbs (action, state, helping verbs)

3

Adjectives & Adverbs

4

Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases

5

Conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating)

6

Articles & Determiners (a/an/the, this/that, some/any)

7

Interjections & Common Sentence Fillers

Chapter 2

Sentence Structure & Word Order

8

Core sentence parts (subject, predicate, object, complement)

9

Phrases vs. Clauses (independent/dependent)

10

Sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)

11

Modifiers & placement (avoiding dangling/misplaced modifiers)

12

Parallelism (lists, comparisons, correlative pairs)

Chapter 3

Tense, Aspect & Verb Forms

13

Present/past/future basics + time expressions

14

Simple vs. continuous (progressive)

15

Perfect & perfect continuous

16

Irregular verbs & principal parts (go–went–gone)

17

Verb agreement (subject–verb, tricky cases)

18

Non-finite forms (infinitives, gerunds, participles)

Chapter 4

Noun Phrase Grammar

19

Countable vs. uncountable nouns

20

Singular/plural & irregular plurals

21

Possessives (’s vs. of; possessive pronouns)

22

Articles in depth (zero article; generic vs. specific)

23

Quantifiers (many/much, few/little, a lot of)

24

Pronoun reference (clarity, agreement, who/whom)

Chapter 5

Complex Sentences & Meaning

25

Questions (yes/no, wh-, indirect questions)

26

Negation (not, never, no, negative questions)

27

Conditionals (0/1/2/3, mixed)

28

Reported speech (tense shifts, pronouns, time words)

29

Relative clauses (defining/non-defining; reduced forms)

30

Modals (ability, obligation, advice, probability)

Chapter 6

Punctuation & Mechanics

31

Commas (lists, clauses, appositives, intro phrases)

32

Sentence boundaries (periods, run-ons, fragments)

33

Apostrophes (possessives vs. contractions)

34

Semicolons & colons (when and why)

35

Quotation marks & dialogue punctuation

36

Capitalization, abbreviations, and common style rules

Chapter 7

Common Errors, Editing & Practice

37

Confusing pairs (its/it’s, their/there/they’re, affect/effect)

38

Preposition and collocation mistakes (interested in, good at, etc.)

39

Verb tense consistency in paragraphs

40

Clarity edits (wordiness, passive voice choices)

41

Targeted drills: transform sentences (active↔passive, direct↔reported)

42

Weekly writing routine + error log (track repeated mistakes)