📝 English Grammar Adventure

Learn what a word is, what a sentence is, and why word order matters.

Nouns are naming words for people, places, animals and things.

General names and special names - and why special names get capital letters.

One or more than one: adding -s, -es, -ies, and the special plurals.

Words like he, she, it and they that stand in place of nouns.

Action words - what someone or something does.

Using am, is and are correctly with I, he, she, it, we, you and they.

The small words a, an and the - and when to use each.

Describing words that tell us more about nouns.

Little words that tell us where something is and when something happens.

Talking about habits and facts: I play, she plays.

Talking about things that already happened: played, went, saw.

Starting and ending sentences correctly.

Asking questions with who, what, where, when, why and how - and building good sentences.

Using and, but, or, so and because to join ideas.

Pointing to things that are near or far, one or many.

Saying what you own and what you had before.

Words that show who owns something.

Describing what is in a place: one thing or many.

Saying what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.

Talking about a few or a little: some in yes-sentences, any in no-sentences and questions.

Question words that ask for special information.

Saying what is happening right now with am, is or are + -ing.

Using order words to tell what happens first, next and last.

Finding words with opposite meanings and using them to compare.

Telling about the past with was and were.

Choosing the right mark to end a sentence.

Using do and does for questions and no-sentences.

Small words for places and times.

The eight jobs a word can do in a sentence - and how one word can change jobs.

Collective, abstract and material nouns - and nouns you can or can't count.

Possessive, reflexive, demonstrative and question pronouns.

Main verbs, helping verbs, and verbs that link a subject to a description.

Making the verb match its subject - including the tricky cases.

What is happening now, and what has happened up to now.

Was/were + -ing, and the three forms of irregular verbs.

Will, going to, and the present continuous for plans.

Bigger, biggest, more beautiful, most beautiful - and the irregular ones.

Words that tell how, when, where and how often.

Some, any, much, many, a few, a little, this, that, each and every.

Into, through, across, since, for, during and more.

Joining words and ideas: and, but, so, because, although, if, unless.

Statements, questions, commands and exclamations; subject and predicate; negative sentences.

Can, could, may, might, must and should.

Who did it, or what was done: changing active sentences to passive.

Writing someone's exact words, and reporting what they said.

Don't, can't, it's - and apostrophes that show who owns something.

Commas, quotation marks and fixing sentences and paragraphs.

-ves plurals, foreign plurals, compound nouns, and nouns that never change.

I or me, he or him, who or whom - choosing the right pronoun form.

Making direct questions correctly, and adding tags like 'isn't it?'.

Verb + particle combinations like give up, look after and run out of.

Topic sentences, connectors, and finding and fixing mistakes.

Real possibilities and imaginary situations with if.

Which verbs take -ing and which take to, and what follows a preposition.

Building and spelling new words with word beginnings and endings.

Joining describing clauses to nouns with relative pronouns.

Words with similar or opposite meanings and words that sound alike.

Showing which of two past events happened first.

Past habits with used to and familiar things with be/get used to + -ing.

Showing degree: too much, as much as needed, and strong feeling.

Punctuating what people say and laying out conversation.

Choosing the right style for the reader and the occasion.

Quantifiers for countable and uncountable nouns.

Saying how long with the present perfect.

Putting several adjectives before a noun in the right order.

Pronouns for people, things and places in general.

Spotting and fixing incomplete and joined-together sentences.

Building rich noun phrases, and making sure every pronoun clearly points to one noun.

Verb forms that work as nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

Simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous - and present perfect versus simple past.

The earlier of two past events, and the future continuous and future perfect.

Collective nouns, 'there is/are', phrases that interrupt, and tricky subjects.

Deduction, obligation, and modals with the perfect: must have, should have, could have.

Independent and dependent clauses, and simple, compound and complex sentences.

Using who, which, that, whose, where and when to add information.

Real, unreal and impossible conditions: zero, first, second and third conditionals.

Passive forms in present, past, future, perfect and with modals.

Tense backshift, time and place changes, and reporting questions, commands and requests.

Placing modifiers so the meaning is clear, and keeping lists and comparisons balanced.

Rewriting sentences in a different form without changing the meaning.

Semicolons, colons, dashes and quotation marks; formal and informal language; linking ideas in a paragraph.

The zero article, the with unique and general things, and quantifiers like several, plenty of and a number of.

Dependent prepositions, between/among, and prepositional phrases acting as adjectives and adverbs.

What job a dependent clause does in a sentence.

As ... as, double comparatives, fewer/less, and adjectives that cannot be compared.

The mistakes most often seen in exams and everyday writing - and how to avoid them.

Telling verbs with tense from infinitives and participles, and fixing fragments.

Wishes, regrets and suggestions: I wish I were, If only I had, I suggest that he go.

Never have I seen..., Not only did she..., It was Ravi who...

Have, get, make, let and help: I had my hair cut; she made me laugh.

Varied openings, combined sentences, and cutting redundant words.

It is said that... and He is said to...: reporting opinions in the passive.

So do I, neither do I, one/ones, so/not and leaving out repeated words.

Adding information with appositives and setting it off with commas, dashes or brackets.

Linking ideas with markers such as however, moreover, therefore and in conclusion.

Natural word partnerships and common idioms.

Mixing past and present in conditionals; unless, provided that, otherwise, but for.

Although, despite, however; to, in order to, so that and negative purpose.

Building word families with suffixes and choosing the right form.

Turning verbs and adjectives into nouns for formal writing.

Restating ideas in your own words and writing short summaries.