English Grammar Library

Talk about habits, routines and facts. The tense you use most every day.

Describe what is happening right now, temporary situations and future plans.

Connect the past with now: experiences, recent news and situations that continue today.

Show that an activity started in the past and has been going on until now.

Talk about finished actions and events at a specific time in the past.

Set the scene in a story and describe actions in progress at a past moment.

Show that one past action happened before another past action.

Describe how long an activity had been going on before another past moment.

Choose between will and going to for decisions, plans, promises and predictions.

Describe actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future.

Talk about actions that will be completed by a certain time in the future.

Learn when to use a, an, the, or no article at all.

Know which nouns you can count and which words go with each type.

Tell general names from specific names and capitalize correctly.

Show ownership with apostrophe -s: Joe’s phone, the students’ books.

Use words for groups (team, family, staff) with the right verb.

Master in, on and at for times and places, plus common verb + preposition pairs.

Master in, on and at for time and place, plus common verb + preposition pairs.

Express ability, permission, advice, obligation and possibility with can, must, should and more.

Know when to use -ing (enjoy reading) and when to use to + verb (want to read).

Understand verb + particle combinations like give up, look after and turn down.

Learn the past forms of common verbs that don’t end in -ed.

Use be, do and have as helping verbs to make tenses, questions and negatives.

Connect the subject to a description with be, seem, look, feel, become and more.

Use "if" sentences for facts, real possibilities and imaginary situations.

Focus on the action or the result, not on who did it.

Tell someone what another person said, asked or told you to do.

Join ideas with who, which, that, where and whose.

Match singular subjects with singular verbs and plural subjects with plural verbs.

Build clear sentences with subject, verb and object in the right order.

Form yes/no questions and wh- questions with the right word order.

Compare two things (bigger, more expensive) or pick the top one (the biggest, the most expensive).

Describe nouns and compare things with -er, -est, more and most.

Describe how, when, where and how often actions happen.

Replace nouns with I, me, my, mine and friends, and pick the right form.

Use myself, yourself, themselves when the subject and object are the same.

Point to things with this, that, these and those.

Talk about people and things in general: someone, anything, nobody, everyone.

Fix the errors English learners make most: make vs do, say vs tell, and more.

Use full stops, commas, apostrophes, question marks and capitals correctly.