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Adverb position in English: before the verb, after be, and the just, still and already traps

Advanced articles in English: the zero article, the with names and places, and go to school vs go to the school

As vs like in English: swims like a fish, works as a waiter, and the truth about like I said

Both, either and neither in English: the two-of-something words, agreement traps, and Me neither

British vs American grammar: have got, gotten, the team are, and the other quiet differences

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

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

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

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

Gerund and infinitive: which verb form comes next?

Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where

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

Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so

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

Irregular verbs in English: the full list by pattern

Linking words in English: however, although, despite, whereas and therefore

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

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

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

Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects

Passive voice in English: rules, examples and when to use it

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

Present continuous tense: form, spelling and uses

Present simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it

Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more

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

Reported speech in English: backshift, questions and commands

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

So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result

The subjunctive and the unreal past in English: I suggest he go, if I were you, and it's time we left

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