English Grammar Encyclopedia

Master the Present Simple tense. Learn when to use it, how to form positives, negatives an...

Learn the Present Continuous tense (also called Present Progressive). Understand when to u...

Master the Present Perfect tense. Learn when to use have/has + past participle, the differ...

Master the Past Simple tense. Learn regular and irregular verb forms, when to use Past Sim...

Learn the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle). Understand when to sequence past eve...

Master the Future Simple tense using "will". Learn when to use will vs going to, predictio...

Master the Present Perfect Continuous tense (have/has been + -ing). Learn how it differs f...

Learn the Past Continuous tense (was/were + -ing). Understand when to use it for backgroun...

Master the Passive Voice in English. Learn how to form it in all tenses, when to use it (e...

Master Reported Speech (indirect speech) in English. Learn tense backshifting rules, prono...

Master subject-verb agreement in English. Learn the core rules, tricky cases (collective n...

Master parallel structure (parallelism) in English writing. Learn how to keep lists, pairs...

Master English word order (SVO structure). Learn correct adverb placement, adjective order...

Master English articles: definite (the), indefinite (a, an) and zero article. Learn when t...

Master English modal verbs: ability, permission, possibility, obligation, advice and deduc...

Master English conjunctions: coordinating (FANBOYS), subordinating, and correlative. Learn...

Master English prepositions of time, place and direction. Learn the key rules for "in", "o...

Master English relative clauses. Learn the difference between defining and non-defining re...

Master all types of conditional sentences: zero, first, second, third and mixed conditiona...

Master gerunds (-ing forms) and infinitives (to + verb) in English. Learn which verbs take...

Master adverbial clauses in English: time (when, while, after), cause (because, since, as)...

Master participle clauses (present -ing, past -ed, perfect having + -ed). Learn how to red...

Master cohesive devices in academic writing: discourse markers, reference pronouns, substi...

Master hedging language for academic writing. Learn how to express uncertainty, caution an...

Master comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. Learn regular and irregular for...

Master the four sentence types in English: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex....

Master the grammar of academic English writing: formal register, nominalisation, impersona...

Master subject-auxiliary inversion in English: negative adverbials, conditional inversion,...

Learn what run-on sentences are, how to identify them, and the four ways to fix them. A cr...

Learn to identify and fix sentence fragments in English writing. Understand what makes a c...