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The categories page (accessed by clicking on the link 'Categories' in the special pages list in the toolbox - the third box in the column on the left) shows the different categories into which the guide is divided. Each category is a group of articles linked by theme. Grammar is one category; UK culture is another.

Observant readers may have noticed that there is a bar across the bottom of this page which tells you the categories to which this page belongs - navigation (in blue, because thisa is a 'real' vategory) and as yet unwritten, which is in red because it has not yet been written. One way to search the database is by clicking on the name of the category to which an article belongs. This will bring up a page which (assuming it has been written) contains a (usually trivial) description, sometimes no description at all, and two lists. The first list is of subcategories to this category, the second of articles in this category. Neither of these lists is very fully populated at present; this is an aspect of the current project that is being developed - slowly. Articles and sub-categories may belong to more than one category: the lists are not restrictive.

Click on some categories and you will see that they too have bars across the bottom telling you to which category they belong. Grammar, for example, belongs to the category Linguistic: Linguistic contains the sub-category Grammar. Grammar, for which the description at present reads "Designed for many sub-categories... ", contains one sub-category, "Plurals". Others to come include Clauses and word classes. (There will eventually be a link from the older name for these, Parts of speech which will arrive at the same page.)

Browsing the database, then, includes the possibility of clicking on the category at the bottom of a page and obtaining a list of articles on the same theme, or other categories that link to the present one. This may suggest a way forward you have not yet thought of.