Grammar & Syntax
Topic outline
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Welcome to the English course. This course is foundational to all the other courses you will take. Once you get a good grasp of English, you will see two significant advantages:
- You will be in a much better position to master the original languages. It is very difficult to learn Hebrew and Greek if you don't know your own language's grammar.
- You will be equipped to analyze and critique your own writing. Articulating your ideas in written form is so important for Christians. Communicating by means of the written word and communicating by means of the spoken word are two skills that are very closely linked.
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Please post your questions here.
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Use this link to study parts of speech. Then take the quiz.
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In this interactive course, you will learn a new grammar, the passive voice.
Please read all the instructions carefully and do the course step by step. You can work at your own pace.
When you finish a task, also check your results so you can learn from your mistakes. This way, this grammar won't be a problem for you. -
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Watch this video to learn the passive. -
This infographic shows you the elements of a passive sentence.
Complete the graphic!
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
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find nouns in a sentence;
- identify a noun's case;
- identify a noun's function;
- identify a noun's gender and number.
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Closes: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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2 - First exercise -
Do this first exercise to check how well you understand the new grammar.
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Hefteintrag FileHausaufgabe: Übertrage den Hefteintrag in dein "Grammar"-Heft.
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find nouns in a sentence;
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
- identify adjectives by asking the adjectival questions;
- identify an adjective's position;
- identify an adjective's degree.
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Receive a gradeCloses: Saturday, 8 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Saturday, 8 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Saturday, 8 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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3 - More exercises -
How fit are you with the passive already?
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Simple exercises
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More challenging exercises
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Look at the sentences carefully and decide if it's active or passive!
- identify adjectives by asking the adjectival questions;
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A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun. Note this sentence: "Sarah asked William to lend Sarah William's book." This is awkward. To avoid this kind of repetition, we use pronouns. "Sarah asked William to lend her his book."
In this lesson, you will learn how to:
- distinguish between the seven different kinds of pronouns;
- find a pronoun's antecedent;
- find the person, gender, and number of a personal pronoun;
- know the difference between the different kinds of demonstrative pronouns.
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 10 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 10 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 10 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 10 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 10 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 10 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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4 - Exercises to make you even fitter -
Here are more exercises that can help you get fitter in the passive voice.
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In this task, transform the active sentences into passive sentences.
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In this exercise, you can learn some facts about the Statue of Liberty and practise the passive voice.
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This is a huge exercise where you can practise the passive voice in different tenses.
- distinguish between the seven different kinds of pronouns;
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
- find a verb's tense, voice, mood, person, gender, and number;
- distinguish transitive verbs from intransitive;
- identify a verb's agent.
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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- find a verb's tense, voice, mood, person, gender, and number;
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
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find adverbs;
- find the verb they are modifying;
- know the adverbial questions.
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Receive a gradeCloses: Thursday, 20 November 2025, 1:02 PM
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find adverbs;
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
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distinguish between a verb and a verbal;
- find participles, gerunds, and infinitives;
- distinguish between gerunds and participles;
- know the function of all the verbals;
- find verbal phrases.
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Closes: Thursday, 20 November 2025, 1:12 PM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Saturday, 22 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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distinguish between a verb and a verbal;
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
- find a preposition's object;
- find a prepositional phrase;
- determine the function of a prepositional phrase;
- distinguish between phrases and clauses;
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Receive a gradeCloses: Friday, 28 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Friday, 28 November 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Monday, 1 December 2025, 3:59 AM
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Sentence diagramming is an incredible tool for Christians. As Christians, we confess that the truth about ourselves, about our world, and about our future is laid out for us in the sentences of Scripture. Exegesis is the process whereby we unlock that meaning and begin the process of putting it to work in our lives. Sentence diagramming is a tool that enables us to engage in exegesis with confidence. When you diagram a sentence, you are analyzing a sentence in terms of its syntax, and syntax is the most important part of exegesis. Diagramming is a tool you can use to make visible a sentence's syntax.
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In this lesson, you will learn how to:
- identify a conjunction;
- recognize whether a conjunction is joining a word, phrase, or clause;
- distinguish between subordinating, correlative, and coordinating conjunctions.
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 3:59 AM
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Receive a gradeCloses: Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 3:59 AM
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A clause is a group of words that does have its own subject and verb (unlike a phrase).
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