English grammar

English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.

Most English speech and writing follows the conventions of Standard English; however, minor divergences may occur depending on historical, regional, and cultural contexts. Larger divergences occur when comparing pronunciation and vocabulary.

Personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class (a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s).