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Is there a complete list of English grammar rules that do not have any exceptions?

I know there are many rules that have at least a few exceptions but i never learned any rules in school that don't have any exceptions. Is there a complete list of such rules somewhere out there? I couldnt find a list like that anywhere so i thought it be nice to have one here if any of such rules exist.

I think everybody could benefit from learning them.

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Do you remember what Bill Clinton said during the Whitewater/Lewinsky purge? "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." IOW, the question depends on what you mean by "grammar rules" and "exceptions". No native speaker needs a list of the basic grammar rules of English, and no list of rules without exceptions will help anyone. As myriad linguists have pointed out, even the most stringent prescriptivists over the past 200+ years inevitably violate their own inviolable rules. Usage rules generally have nothing to do with grammar but only with idiomaticity and custom. – Bill Franke Oct 28 '12 at 4:58
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Um... all sentences must have at least one character in them? I feel reasonably confident in making that assertion, but that's not a particularly helpful rule. – waiwai933♦ Oct 28 '12 at 5:06
so if i asked the question are there any useful grammar rules without exceptions the answer would be no? – Xitcod13 Oct 28 '12 at 5:20
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The complete list is: – Cerberus Oct 28 '12 at 5:26
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Actually, there is one. The Present Active Participle form of every English verb is formed by adding -ing to the Infinitive form of the verb. This even works for be. – John Lawler Oct 28 '12 at 15:15
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