The grammar guide looks at ideas ranging from building sentences and choosing the correct verb ending, through to tenses and hypotheticals.
Grammar 1
Creating questions using the verb 'be'.
How to make questions starting with 'do'.
Saying where something is.
When to add 's' to a verb.
Words to make longer sentences.
Using 'a', 'the', 'this', or 'that'.
To whom things belong.
Talking about one thing, and more than one thing.- The simplest way to make a sentence in English.
How to use the present continuous tense.
Using the present tense.
Grammar 2
Describing a verb.
How to describe feeling unwell.
Speaking about how often something happens.
Whether an action always, usually, sometimes, or never happens.
How often an event happens within a block of time.
Telling people to do things.
Talking about when things happen.
Speaking about doing actions to yourself.
How to use the future tense.
How to speak about event in the past.
What happens when two verbs are next to each other.
The difference between saying an object is 'used to' do something, and 'used for' something.
Grammar 3
Speaking about things done in the past, but not now.
When events happened compared to now.
How to use 'can', 'should', 'would', and other models.
Comparing two things.- Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'.
- Saying what is the biggest, tallest, and best.
- The difference between 'will' and 'going to' when speaking about the future.
- How to use the past continuous tense.
How to use the past perfect tense.- Speaking about how long something has happened.
- How to explain which thing is being spoken about.
- Describing a thing as 'too' big, tall, loud, etc.
Grammar 4
- The different ways in which 'get' is used.
- How to use 'if' to describe cause and effect relationships that are always true.
- How to use 'if' to describe cause and effect.
- How to use 'if' to describe hypotheticals.
- How to use 'if' to describe how life would be different if another choice ha been made.
- Using verbs that have two or more words.
- Placing the object inside a verb with two or more words.
- The difference between 'doing' verbs and verbs describing something which is always true.
- Creating a question by adding a 'tag' at the end.
- How to use the future continuous tense.
- How to use the future continuous tense in the passive voice.
- Using the future tense in the passive voice.
- How to use the past continuous tense in its passive voice.
- How to use the past tense in the passive voice.
- How to use the present continuous tense in its passive voice.
- Speaking about actions that are finished, but the time is not finished.
- Speak about actions that are finished, but the time is not finished, using qualifiers.
- How to use the present tense in the passive voice.
- Using 'wish' to speak about regrets.
- Using 'wish' to speak about a different life you wish you had.
Grammar 5
- Adding clauses to give more information about a verb.
- Telling other people what to do.
- Telling other people to not do something.
- Placing a question inside a sentence.
- Knowing the difference between 'even though' and 'despite'.
- Giving advice to other people.
- Giving information about a clause by adding another clause using 'that', 'which', 'who', etc.
- How to tell someone what another person said.
- How to use the future perfect continuous tense.
- How to use the future perfect continuous tense in its passive voice.
Speaking about events that will have finished by a time in the future.- How to use the future perfect tense in the passive voice.
- How to use the past perfect continuous tense.
- How to use the past perfect continuous tense in the passive voice.
- How to use the past perfect tense.
- How to use the past perfect tense in the passive voice.
- How to use the present perfect tense in its passive voice.
Grammar 6
The difference between 'people' and 'persons'.- Knowing the difference between 'so' and 'such'.
- Creating less common grammar structures by placing key words or phrases first.
- Speaking about imagined situations.
- Changing levels of formality when inviting people to do something.
- Using short verb phrases to describe time or reason.
- How to use modals to make judgements.
- Removing 'a' and 'the' from sentences.
- Knowing the difference between 'wish' and 'hope'.