English Grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the English language.

A language is such that

its elements must be combined according to certain patterns. This article is concerned with (and restricted to)
morphology, the building blocks of language; and syntax, the construction of meaningful phrases, clauses and
sentences with the use of morphemes and words.

The grammar of any language is commonly approached in two different ways: descriptive, usually based on a
systematic analysis of a large text corpus and describing grammatical structures thereupon; and prescriptive,
which attempts to use the identified rules of a given language as a tool to govern the linguistic behaviour of
speakers (see Descriptive linguistics and Linguistic prescription). Prescriptive grammar further concerns itself
with several open disputes in English grammar, often representing changes in usage over time. This article
predominantly concerns itself with descriptive grammar