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Causative have and get in English: have something done, get something done and having someone do it

Cleft sentences in English: it was X who, what I need is, and how to move the emphasis

Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE

Conditional sentences in English: the four types explained

Countable and uncountable nouns in English: advice, information, news and the ones you simply have to learn

Discourse markers in English: well, anyway, actually, mind you and by the way

Dummy subjects in English: it's raining, there's a problem, and why the subject slot is never empty

Ellipsis and substitution in English: I think so, neither do I, and the words you are allowed to leave out

Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back

For, since, already, yet and still in English: which word, and where it goes in the sentence

Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done

Future in the past: was going to, would, was about to, and the grammar of plans that failed

Future tense in English: will, going to and more explained

English grammar test: 30 questions with answers (A2-B2)

Indirect questions in English: Could you tell me where the station is, and the word order that goes with it

Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips

Irregular verbs in English: the full list by pattern

Mixed conditionals in English: past causes with present results, and present causes with past results

Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things

Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap

Past modals in English: should have, could have, must have and might have

Past perfect tense: had plus past participle, and when English actually needs it

Phrasal verbs in English: rules, examples and how to use them

Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained

Present perfect continuous: have been doing, and how it differs from the present perfect

Question tags in English: the mirror rule, aren't I, and tags after let's and imperatives

Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in English: myself, yourself, each other, and when English does not bother

Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun

Reported speech in English: backshift, questions and commands

Reporting verbs in English: admit, deny, suggest, promise, and the pattern welded to each one

English tenses explained: all 12 with a master table

Time clauses in English: when, while, as soon as, until, before and after

Verb patterns with objects in English: want somebody to do, make somebody do, and see somebody doing

Wish and if only in English: wish + past, wish + past perfect, wish + would, and why I wish I would is wrong

Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-

Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech