English grammar lessons and practice

Read a pattern, compare examples and common mistakes, then choose an answer, complete a sentence or fill in a word. Every answer includes an explanation.

Starter, Elementary and Intermediate describe reviewed content and suggested entry points, not your proficiency or certification. Mixed practice can include harder material. Instructions are in English; this is not a complete course from zero.

43 resources

Starter (10)

Short texts, familiar words and a single pattern or listening contrast.

Practice · Starter

Prepositions

Practise prepositions of time and place with text-only examples and clear feedback.

Topics: Home, Travel, Time and dates

Practice · Starter

Sentence builder

Put word tiles in a natural order; accepted alternatives count when more than one order works.

Topics: Everyday English

Guide · Starter

Question words and English word order

Choose the detail you need before choosing a question word: person, place, time, reason, manner or possession. Then build the appropriate question structure.

Topics: Everyday English

Guide · Starter

Yes and no: answer the actual question

A yes/no answer can be followed by a short auxiliary clause or a clear full statement. Match the auxiliary and keep the intended fact explicit.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Starter

Am, is and are

Use be to identify someone, describe a state or give a location. I takes am; he, she and it take is; you, we and they take are. In a question, move be before the subject. Add not after be for a negative.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Starter

Subject and object pronouns

A subject pronoun normally appears before its verb: she called. An object pronoun follows a verb or preposition: I called her; I spoke to her. The forms are I/me, he/him, she/her, we/us and they/them. You and it keep the same form.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Starter

My, mine and possession

Use my, your, his, her, its, our and their before a noun. Use mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs when the noun is understood. A singular person’s name can take apostrophe-s: Maya’s bag. A regular plural ending in s takes an apostrophe after s: the workers’ room.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Starter

Regular and irregular plurals

Most countable nouns add s. A consonant before final y commonly changes y to ies: city/cities. Many nouns ending in a sibilant spelling add es: box/boxes. Common irregulars include person/people, child/children and foot/feet.

Topics: Everyday English

Elementary (23)

Connected everyday language, past events and more detailed choices.

Practice · Elementary

Word groups

Group word tiles as nouns, verbs or adjectives using English meanings and examples.

Topics: Everyday English

Practice · Elementary

Grammar choices

Choose the form that completes an everyday sentence, then read the reason.

Topics: Everyday English

Practice · Elementary

Articles: a, an and the

Choose a, an, the or no article from enough context to leave one fair answer.

Topics: Everyday English, Travel

Practice · Elementary

Irregular verbs

Choose past and past-participle forms, then review them in useful sentences.

Topics: Everyday English

Guide · Elementary

Articles: sound first, then shared context

A and an introduce a nonspecific singular countable noun. The helps identify something the speaker expects the listener to recognize.

Topics: Everyday English

Guide · Elementary

Irregular verbs: base, past and participle

An irregular verb needs more than an ed rule. Learn its base, past and past participle with a sentence that shows how the form is used.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

A, an, the and no article

A or an introduces one nonspecific countable thing. Choose by the next sound: a university but an hour. The points to something the listener can identify from context. General plural and uncountable nouns often have no article: Books help; Water freezes.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Countable and uncountable nouns

A countable sense has singular and plural forms: a chair, two chairs. An uncountable sense is treated as an amount: some information, much water. To count a portion, name the unit: two bottles of water or three pieces of advice.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Present simple: routines and facts

Use the present simple for habits, recurring events and many states. Add s or es for he, she and it in affirmative clauses. Use do or does for questions and negatives, followed by the base verb. Frequency expressions help establish the routine.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Present continuous: happening now

Use am/is/are plus the ing form for an action happening now or around the current period. Put not after be; move be before the subject in a question. The auxiliary is essential: She is working, rather than she working.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Past simple: finished past events

Use the past simple to place an event in a finished past time. Regular verbs often add ed; irregular verbs need their own forms. Questions and negatives use did plus the base verb. Past be uses was or were without did.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Past continuous: an action in progress

Use was/were plus an ing form for an action in progress at a past reference time. A past-simple event can occur during that activity. The continuous gives a background view; it does not say that the activity continued forever or was never completed.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Future plans, decisions and predictions

English has several ways to refer to future time. Will plus the base verb can express a prediction or a decision made now. Be going to plus the base verb often presents an existing intention or evidence-based prediction. Present continuous can describe an arrangement.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Questions and English word order

Many questions use question word + auxiliary + subject + main verb: Where do you work? With be, move be before the subject: Where is it? A subject question can omit do: Who called? The question word itself fills the subject role.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Making a clear negative

Put not after be, a modal or the first auxiliary: is not, cannot, has not finished. With ordinary present/past-simple verbs, use do/does/did not plus the base form. Contractions such as doesn’t and didn’t are common in speech and informal writing.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Can, should and must

A modal is followed by the base verb: can help, should check, must leave. It does not add s for a singular subject. Can can express ability or permission; should often gives advice; must can express a strong obligation. The situation determines the intended meaning.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Comparing two things

Use a comparative to compare one thing with another: smaller than, more useful than. Short adjectives often take er; longer ones commonly use more. Good becomes better and bad becomes worse. Than introduces the comparison when it is stated.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Comparing one with a whole group

A superlative identifies an extreme within a group: the smallest room or the most useful example. The comparison group can be explicit or understood. Good becomes best and bad becomes worst. The commonly introduces the superlative noun phrase.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Adjectives and adverbs

An adjective describes a noun or follows a linking verb: a quiet room; the room is quiet. An adverb can describe how an action happens: speak quietly. Many manner adverbs add ly, but some keep a different form: good/well and fast/fast.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

At, on and in for time

A useful starting pattern is at for clock times, on for days and dates, and in for months, years and broader periods. Say at six, on Monday and in October. No preposition normally precedes next, last, this or every in time phrases such as next week.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Elementary

Place, position and movement

In often places something within an area or container; on describes contact with a surface; at can identify a point or activity location. Movement towards a destination often uses to. Into stresses movement from outside to inside. Use the complete scene to select a phrase.

Topics: Everyday English

Intermediate (10)

Longer ideas, inference, connected speech and less familiar word patterns.

Guide · Intermediate

Verb forms: choose the time and the viewpoint

English verb forms present events and states from different viewpoints. A time word helps, but meaning and context decide the complete form.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Present perfect: past linked to now

Use have/has plus a past participle to connect a past event or situation with the present. It can describe experience without a finished date, a present result, or a state continuing to now. Use for with a duration and since with a starting point.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Gerunds and infinitives

Some verbs are followed by an ing form naming an activity: enjoy reading. Others take to plus a base verb: decide to leave. A preposition usually takes an ing form when a verb follows it: interested in learning. Learn a short example with the main verb.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Conditions and possible results

A common real-future conditional uses if plus present simple and will plus a base verb in the result: If it rains, we will stay inside. An imagined present/future situation often uses if plus past form and would in the result. The past form can mark distance from reality, not past time.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Passive voice: be plus participle

The passive lets you focus on the person or thing affected: The report was checked. Use the appropriate form of be plus a past participle. Add a by phrase when the agent matters. The tense appears in be: is checked, was checked, will be checked.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Relative clauses: identify or add detail

A relative clause can identify a noun: the person who called; the room that we booked. A defining clause supplies information needed to identify the referent. A non-defining clause adds extra information and is separated by commas in writing.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Because, although and so

Conjunctions connect ideas. Because introduces a reason; although introduces a concession or contrast; so can introduce a result. Read both clauses and decide the relationship before choosing a connector. Either clause can be short while still making a complete point.

Topics: Everyday English

Grammar lesson · Intermediate

Reporting statements and questions

Reported speech tells someone what another person said without necessarily repeating the exact words. Tell normally takes a person object; say need not. Reported questions use statement order: she asked where I worked. Yes/no questions can be introduced by if or whether.

Topics: Everyday English

Choosing a useful next step

Choose one resource that feels manageable. Read its instructions, try the task and use the explanation to decide what to practise next. Picture-deck labels refer to the first collection; collection numbers are not proficiency levels.

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