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Begin with “Why Non-native English Learners Need to Learn the Parts of Speech.” This post serves as a foundation, exploring all aspects of the parts of speech. It explains the role of each part of speech and their relationships within a sentence while also emphasizing how understanding parts of speech clarifies sentence structure. It helps English learners to classify new words, and prevents common mistakes.

The next stop in your parts-of-speech learning tour leads to “How to Identify Parts of Speech: A Complete Guide.” This guide provides techniques for recognizing parts of speech, understanding their classifications, roles, and relationships within sentence structure. It expands more deeply than the general post on parts of speech. It also introduces sentence diagramming as a tool for identifying parts of speech as well as for solving advanced use-of-English exercises that you will find in exams like the FCE.

Explore “17 Common Mistakes with Parts of Speech.” This post highlights frequent errors made by English learners, such as misusing articles with uncountable nouns or incorrect adjective order.

From there, the series will continue, covering each part of speech and the many common mistakes English learners make with them. The next in the series is “Common Mistakes with Verbs in Parts of speech which covers 9 common mistakes I have observed my students making with verbs.

Check back here often as I gradually expand this series to each part of speech.

You might think of the parts of speech as something you learn only in the beginning stages of English. However, in my post on the importance of the parts of speech, I give two use cases for learning the parts of speech – one for the elementary learners and the other of an advanced, long-time English learners.

So, where do you start English grammar if you’re a beginner? Try here with my post “Where to start English Grammar.” Here, I give you a roadmap that starts with the parts of speech then builds on it to more advanced concepts like verb tenses.