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English Grammar
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20 topic areas covering all of English grammar and punctuation, from A1 to C1 — every topic covered, 192 in-depth lessons.
🧱Verb & Sentence BasicsA1–C1
⏳Past & Perfect TensesA1–B2
🔮Talking About the FutureA2–C1
🧭Modal VerbsA1–C1
🔀Conditionals & WishesA2–C1
🔄Passive & CausativeB1–C1
🗣️Reported SpeechA2–C1
❓Questions & NegationA1–C1
⚙️Verb Patterns: -ing & InfinitivesA2–C1
🏷️NounsA1–B2
🅰️Articles & DeterminersA1–C1
👤PronounsA1–C1
🎨AdjectivesA1–C1
🚦Adverbs & Word OrderA1–B2
⚖️ComparisonA2–B2
📍PrepositionsA1–B2
🧩Phrasal VerbsB1–C1
🧵Clauses, Connectors & Sentence StyleA1–C1
✏️Punctuation & MechanicsA2–C1
🤔Commonly Confused WordsA1–B2
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(A) few and (a) little
(Not) as … as
-ed vs -ing adjectives (bored / boring)
Adjective + preposition (afraid of, good at)
Adjective order
Adjective/adverb traps (hard/hardly, good/well)
Adjectives: basics & position
Advanced Article Use
Advanced passives (all tenses & modals)
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of manner (-ly)
Advice: should, ought to, had better
Affect vs effect
All, every, each, whole
Alone vs lonely
Another, other, others
Apostrophes
Articles: a, an & the
Auxiliary verbs & short answers (So do I / Neither do I)
Be About To, Be Due To & Be To
Be Supposed To
Been vs gone
Both, either, neither
Brackets & parentheses
British vs American grammar
British vs American punctuation
By vs until
Can, could, be able to (ability)
Capitalisation rules
Causatives: have / get something done
Cleft Sentences
Collective nouns (the team is/are)
Comma splices and run-on sentences
Commas
Commonly confused word pairs (starter set)
Comparatives & superlatives
Compound Adjectives
Compound nouns & noun modifiers
Conditionals overview (first, second & third)
Conjunctions basics (and, but, or, so, because)
Contrast connectors (however, despite, even though)
Correlatives (not only … but also)
Countable & uncountable nouns
Defining relative clauses
Double negatives
Dummy subjects: it and there
During, for, while
Each Other vs Themselves
Ellipsis & Substitution
Even
Every day vs everyday
First conditional
For, since, ago
Formal vs informal grammar (register)
Full stops, ellipses & abbreviations
Fun vs funny
Future continuous
Future in the Past
Future perfect
Future time clauses (no will after when)
Generic Pronouns & Singular They
Gerunds vs infinitives
Gradable vs Non-Gradable Adjectives
Have and have got
Have luck → be lucky
Hear vs listen
Hope vs wish
Hyphens, en dashes and em dashes
i.e. vs e.g.
If I was vs if I were
Imperatives & let’s
Impersonal Passive
Indefinite pronouns (somebody, anything, nowhere)
Indirect questions (Do you know where…?)
Intensifiers: very, really, quite, rather
Inversion
Inverted Conditionals
Irregular verbs list
Its vs it’s
Journey vs trip vs travel
Just, already, yet, still
Lay vs lie
Lend vs rent
Less vs fewer
Like vs as
Linking Verbs
Linking words & discourse markers (master list)
Look, see, watch
Lose vs loose
Make, let, be made to
Meaning-change verbs (remember, stop, try, regret)
Mixed conditionals
Modals of deduction (past): must have / might have
Modals of deduction (present): must / can’t
Modifying comparisons (much better; the more… the more…)
Most common phrasal verbs (the big list)
Mustn’t vs don’t have to
Narrative tenses
Needn’t Have vs Didn’t Need To
Negative & Echo Questions
Negatives: not vs no
Non-defining relative clauses
Noun + preposition
Noun clauses; whether vs if
Obligation: must, have to, need to
On holiday vs on vacation
On time vs in time; at the end vs in the end
One / ones
Oxford comma
Participle Clauses
Partitives
Past continuous
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous
Past simple (regular & irregular)
Perception Verbs
Permission: can, could, may
Personal pronouns (I vs me)
Phrasal verbs with get, take, look, go, put
Phrasal verbs: introduction
Plural nouns (regular, irregular & foreign)
Plural-Only Nouns
Possessives (‘s vs of)
Possessives: my, mine, whose
Possibility: may, might, could
Preposition + -ing
Prepositions of movement
Prepositions of time & place (in, on, at)
Present continuous
Present continuous for future arrangements
Present perfect
Present perfect continuous
Present perfect simple vs continuous
Present perfect vs past simple
Present simple
Present simple vs present continuous
Punctuating dialogue & quotations
Purpose: to, in order to, so that
Quantifiers (most, many, a lot of)
Question forms & word order
Question marks & exclamation marks
Question tags
Quotation marks
Reason & result (so … that, such … that)
Reduced Relative Clauses
Reflexive pronouns
Relative clauses advanced (whose, whom)
Remember vs remind
Reported questions
Reported speech (statements)
Reporting Verbs
Requests, offers & suggestions
Rise vs raise
Second conditional
Semicolons and colons
Separable vs inseparable phrasal verbs
Should have, could have, would have
So and such
Some and any
Stative verbs (why “I’m loving it” breaks the rule)
Subject vs object questions (Who saw you?)
Subject–verb agreement
Teach vs learn
The future tense: will vs going to
The passive voice
The verb be (am, is, are, was, were)
The with names & places
Their, there, they’re
Then vs than
There is / there are
Third conditional
This, that, these, those
Three-Word Phrasal Verbs
Time clauses (when, while, until, as soon as)
To, too, two
Too & enough
Unless, as long as, provided that, in case
Used to, get used to & be used to
Verb + object + infinitive (want you to…)
Verb + preposition (dependent prepositions)
Verbs + -ing (enjoy, finish, mind)
Verbs + to-infinitive (want, decide, hope)
Which vs that
Who vs whom
Win vs earn
Wish and if only
Word order & adverb position
Would rather, would prefer, it’s time
Would: habits, hypothesis, politeness
Your vs you’re
Zero article (school vs the school)
Zero conditional