English Grammar | Learn English What is 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. This article defines a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including: ·          broadcasting ·          education ·          entertainment ·          government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to informal Divergences from the grammar described here occur in some historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English, although these are more minor than variances in pronunciation and vocabulary. Modern English has mostly abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic structures. The 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 othe