Structure of English

• Dative Case - indicate the recipient or beneficiary of the action. ( indirect object )
• Genitive Case - indicates possession, ownership, or association with another noun.
• Accusative Case - used to mark direct objects of transitive verbs.
• word formation: picnic?

  Reduplication
• word formation: computer ( mouse) ?

  Repurposing
• Sentence fragment - missing subject or it's main verb.
• Mental Grammar- generative/ UG.
• Inverted - sentence with verb before the subject.
• active to passive?

  Transformational
• ( grammar ) statement to question?

  Transformational
• If it rains, I will cancel my plans.

  First Conditional
• If I had met you earlier, I would have married you.

  Third Conditional
• Echolalia - repetition of speech by a child learning to talk.
• Possessive - A word that shows ownership or possession of something. ( mine, yours , ours )
• Finite Verb - has a subject and show tense.
• Infinitive Verb - base form of the verb with the word " to " in front of it. (- ing )
• Adverbial phrase - modifies meaning of a verb .
• Adjective phrase - a group of words that describes noun and pronoun.
• Intensive Verb - also called copula.
• Predicate Nominative - rename the subject and follows linking verb. ( Veda is a great athlete.)
• Fused Sentence - ungrammatical sentence that contains two or more independent clause.
• Causative verbs - express that the subject is making someone or something else do something . ( He had me clean the room. )
• Zeugma - using one word to link the two thoughts.
• Adjective clause: A clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
• "If I were you, I would drive more carefully in the rain."

  Second conditional