Free English grammar guide
English grammar, explained simply
Short, clear lessons covering every core topic of English grammar, from nouns and tenses to conditionals and reported speech. Each one gives you the rule, then shows it in real examples.
Parts of speech
The building blocks of every sentence: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and the small words around them.
- Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives and Reflexive Pronouns
- Pronouns
- Pronouns and Types Pronouns
- Subject Pronouns and Object Pronouns
- Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns
- Form and Placement of Adjectives
- Functions of Adjectives
- The Order of Adjectives in a Sentence
- Negative Prefixes
- Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns
- The Functions of Adverbs
- How Adverbs Are Formed
- Adverbs of Place
- Adverbs of Manner
- Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
- Functions and Classes of Determiners
- Definite Articles
- Definite and Indefinite Articles
- Exceptions When Using Definite Articles
- Indefinite Articles
- Quantifiers That Answer HOW MUCH? and HOW MANY?
- Quantifiers MANY, MUCH, FEW, & LITTLE
- The Quantifier ENOUGH
- Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, Percentages
- Quantifiers with Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- Distributives
- The Distributives ALL, BOTH, & HALF
- The Distributives EACH, EVERY, EITHER, & NEITHER
- Demonstratives THIS, THAT, THESE, & THOSE
- The Question Words WHICH, WHAT, & WHOSE
Verb tenses
How English talks about the present, the past and the future: form, use and the common mistakes.
- Simple Present Tense
- Present Continuous or Present Progressive Tense
- Present Perfect Tense
- Present Perfect Tense with EVER, NEVER, ALREADY, & YET
- Present Perfect or Simple Past Tense
- Future Verb Forms
- Simple Future Tense
- Present Continuous for the Future
- Using the Simple Present Tense to Express the Future
- Future with GOING TO
Verbs & verb patterns
Auxiliaries, gerunds, infinitives, the passive voice and conditional sentences.
- Verb Tenses in English
- The Verb TO GET
- Expressions and Uses of TO GET
- The Verb to Be
- The Verb to Be (Part 2)
- Present Participles and Gerunds
- Present Participle
- Gerund
- Verbs Followed by the Gerund
- Gerund or Infinitive
- Infinitive or Base Form
- The Zero Infinitive
- Forming the Negative Infinitive
- The Infinitive After Question Words
- How and When to Use the Infinitive
- Passive Voice
- How to Use the Passive Voice
- Passive Voice with GET / HAVE SOMETHING DONE
- Passive Tenses and Active Equivalents
- If and the Unreal Past
- Zero Conditional
- Type 1 Conditional with IF
- Forming the Type 2 Conditional
- Type 2 Conditional Sentences
Sentences & punctuation
Comparisons, reported speech, relative clauses, question tags and the punctuation that holds it together.
- Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
- Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives
- Superlatives
- Comparisons Using THAN
- Comparisons Using AS
- Indirect and Direct Speech
- Tense Changes When Reporting Speech
- Changing Time and Place References
- Question Forms When Reporting Speech
- Reporting Verbs
- Relative Clauses
- Forming Relative Clauses
- Placing the Preposition in a Relative Clause
- Non-defining Relative Clauses
- When to Use That in Relative Clause
- Question Tags
- Form of Question Tags
- Positive Question Tags
- Negative Question Tags
- Some Notes with Question Tag