English grammar lessons

Clear English grammar lessons from basics to advanced: tenses, articles, conditionals, and more, each with examples and practice.

• The 8 Parts of Speech
• Sentence Structure & Word Order
• Types of Sentences
• Clauses & Phrases
• Subject–Verb Agreement
• There is / There are
• Nouns: Countable, Uncountable & Plurals
• Showing Possession ('s vs. of)
• Articles: a, an, the
• The Zero Article & Names
• Pronouns: Subject, Object, Possessive & Reflexive
• Demonstrative & Indefinite Pronouns
• The 12 Tenses: The Big Picture
• Present Simple
• Present Continuous
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous
• Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• Past Perfect
• Past Perfect Continuous
• Future: will & going to
• Future Continuous & Future Perfect
• used to / be used to / get used to
• Modal Verbs: can, must, should, might...
• Modals of Deduction & Modal Perfects
• Conditionals: zero, first, second, third
• Mixed Conditionals
• wish / if only
• The Passive Voice
• Causative: have / get something done
• Reported (Indirect) Speech
• Questions & Negatives
• Question Tags & Short Answers
• Adjectives & Comparisons
• Adverbs: Types & Position
• too / enough / so / such
• What Prepositions Are
• Prepositions of Time: in / on / at
• More Time Prepositions (for, since, during, by, until...)
• Prepositions of Place: in / on / at
• Position & Space (above, under, between, next to...)
• Movement & Direction (to, into, through, across...)
• Verb + Preposition (Dependent Prepositions)
• Adjective + Preposition & Noun + Preposition
• Preposition Traps & Useful Phrases
• Quantifiers (some, any, much, many...)
• Determiners (each, every, both, all...)
• Gerunds & Infinitives
• make, let, help & verb + object + verb
• Phrasal Verbs
• Relative Clauses (who, which, that)
• Conjunctions & Linking Words
• Participle Clauses
• Prefixes & Suffixes
• Spelling Rules
• Punctuation & Capitalization
• Commonly Confused Words
• Inversion & Emphasis