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Grammar directory

1,238 lessons from the English Grammar blog, grouped by topic. Search by word, or browse a shelf below.

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Start here29

Study guides, grammar overviews and tips for learning English from the ground up.

Lessons in Bangla and Hindi11

Tense charts, articles, paragraphs and more, explained for Bangla and Hindi speakers.

Parts of speech

Nouns41

Kinds of nouns, plurals, gender, case and possessives.

Pronouns21

Types of pronouns, relative pronouns, agreement and reference.

Adjectives and degrees of comparison23

Using adjectives, and changing between positive, comparative and superlative.

Articles and determiners18

A, an, the, quantifiers and other determiners.

Verbs and auxiliaries24

Kinds of verbs, causative and phrasal verbs, regular and irregular forms.

Adverbs16

Kinds, forms, positions and comparison of adverbs.

Prepositions34

Choosing the right preposition, with rules, pictures and exercises.

Conjunctions, linkers and interjections14

Joining words and ideas.

Verbs at work

Tenses19

Charts, markers and rules for every tense.

Modals, conditionals and mood12

Can, may, shall, would, if-sentences and the moods of a verb.

Subject-verb agreement18

Rules, examples and exercises on making verbs agree.

Right forms of verbs, gerunds, infinitives and participles27

Choosing the correct verb form, with solved exercises.

Active and passive voice28

Rules for changing voice, with worked examples and practice.

Direct and indirect speech5

Changing narration with clear rules.

Building sentences

Sentence types and structure24

Subjects, predicates, sentence patterns and common sentence faults.

Clauses and phrases18

Noun, adjective and adverb clauses, and how they differ from phrases.

Transformation and joining of sentences42

Simple, complex and compound sentences; affirmative and negative; joining and splitting.

Completing sentences and filling gaps12

Rules, solutions and exercises.

Tag questions and wh-questions6

Forming and using questions.

Word order and misplaced words41

Where words and clauses belong in a sentence.

Punctuation, spelling and capital letters20

Marks, spelling rules and common misspellings.

Words and mistakes

Vocabulary building35

Synonyms, antonyms, idioms, prefixes, suffixes and daily word lists.

Confusing words197

Pairs and groups of words that are easy to mix up.

Tricky questions and common errors25

Mistakes to spot and fix.

Writing practice

Paragraphs, précis and composition skills20

Building paragraphs, summaries and amplification.

Letters, applications and CVs58

Models for school, college, personal and job writing.

Applications

Personal and formal letters

CVs, jobs and interviews

Essays and paragraphs by topic301

Ready topics for composition practice.

Proverbs and sayings

School and student life

Science, technology and environment

Society, nation and values

Scenes, events and personal topics

Literature, exams and downloads

Style, rhetoric and literary terms15

Figures of speech and the vocabulary of literature.

Poetry, line by line50

Poems studied verse by verse, listed by opening line.

IELTS and TOEFL10

Reading, writing, listening and speaking practice.

PDF library24

Printable grammar books, exercises and vocabulary lists.