Name all eight parts of speech. Further divide the eight parts into smaller categories. For example, the part of speech called "conjunctions" has two subcategories, "coordinating" and "subordinating."
Parse all the words in a sentence. Parsing means to identify the part of speech of a word. The sentence "Users are responsible for their own safety" is parsed as follows: noun, verb, adjective, preposition, pronoun, adjective, noun.
Locate the subject, the main noun or noun phrase that performs an action, and the predicate, the rest of the sentence. Every proper sentence contains a subject and a predicate.
Conjugate all the tenses of a verb. For example, the verb "to give" conjugates as "gave" in the past tense and "give" in the present. The past participle of "give" is "given."
Construct simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences. These are the four basic types of English sentences and require a thorough knowledge of the parts of speech and sentence structure.
List all the different kinds of verb tenses and their functions and give an example. For instance, the present progressive tense indicates that an event is ongoing at the moment, as in "I am reading."