English Grammar Rules

BASIC English Grammar

• Adverbs of Frequency (Always, Often, Never, Seldom etc.)
• Adverbs Spelling -LY
• Can - Cannot
• Do vs. Does - How to make questions in the Present Tense with Do and Does
• Don't vs. Doesn't - How to make negative sentences with don't and doesn't
• Genitive Case - When to use the apostrophe and the S ('s)
• Have Has Go Goes - To Have and To Go in Affirmative, Negative and Questions
• Noun + To Be + Noun
• Past Tense - How to use the simple past tense - sentences and questions.
• Past Tense Irregular Verbs - A list of verbs that are irregular in the Past Tense
• Plural Nouns - Regular & irregular nouns in plural form
• Possessive Adjectives - My, your, his, her, its, our, their.
• Possessive Pronouns - Mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
• Present Tense Verbs - Third Person - Conjugation of He, She, it in Present Tense
• Present Tense vs. Progressive Tense
• Present vs. Progressive vs. Past Tense - Comparing these three tenses.
• Object Pronouns - Me, you, him, her, it, us, them
• Question Words (Who, When, Why, What, Which, How)
• Short Answers - Past Tense
• Short Answers - Present Tense
• Short Answers - To Be (Present Tense)
• Simple Present Tense - How to make basic sentences in English
• Spelling - Words ending in ED - Verbs, Adjectives and other words ending in ED
• Spelling - Words ending in ING - Both present participles and gerunds
• Subject Pronouns - I, You, He, She, It, We, You, They
• There is / There are
• There vs Their vs They're - The difference between these words
• This That These Those - Demonstrative Pronouns
• To Be (Past Tense)
• To Be (Present Tense) - Using the verb To Be in the Present Tense
• Where + To Be
• Your vs You're - The difference between Your and You're in English
• Zero Conditional - Zero conditionals (if-clauses)

INTERMEDIATE English Grammar

• Adjectives ending in -ED and -ING - A list of these adjectives and the difference between these
• Adjectives - Word Order - The order of adjectives before a noun.
• Adverbs - When to use adverbs and the different types of adverbs.
• Adverbs vs. Adjectives - The difference between adverbs and adjectives.
• All vs Every vs Each - The difference between All, Every and Each.
• Another vs Other vs Others - The difference between Another, Other and Others.
• Articles - Definite and Indefinite - When to use (and not use) A, AN and THE
• Both, Neither, Either - The difference between Both, Neither and Either
• Can - Could - Modal verbs - Can and Could
• Comparatives and Superlatives - Comparing things with -er and -est.
• Conditionals - Conditional sentences - if-clauses
• Countable and Uncountable Nouns - The different types of Nouns and Uses
• Do - Does - Did - Done - The difference between Do, Does, Did and Done.
• Every day vs All day - The difference between every day and all day.
• Every day vs everyday - The difference between every day and everyday.
• First Conditional - First Conditional Sentences (if-clauses)
• For vs. Since - When to use For and when to use Since.
• Future - Will - Using Will to talk about the future.
• Future - Will vs. Going to - The difference between Will and Going to (future).
• Going to - Using Going to in different tenses.
• How much - How many - The difference between How much and How many.
• May - Might - Modal verbs - May and Might
• Modal Verbs - Can, Could, May, Might, Must, Shall, Should, Will, Would
• Much - Many - A lot of - Few - These common quantifiers and when to use them.
• Must - The modal verb - Must (also Have to)
• Nouns - Common, Proper, Countable, Uncountable, Concrete, Abstract, Compound and Collective Nouns
• Parts of Speech - The difference between nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.
• Past Participles - Past participles are used in Perfect Tenses and Passive Voice.
• Prepositions List - A list of Prepositions in English.
• Prepositions of Place - An explanation of the different prepositions of place in English
• Prepositions of Time - At / On / In - When to use At, On and In regarding time.
• Present Perfect Tense - When to use the Perfect Tense and its structure
• Pronunciation of ED - The correct pronunciation of words that end in ED.
• Pronunciation of -S - The correct pronunciation of words that end in S.
• Quantifiers - Position, use and examples of Simple and Complex Quantifiers
• Question Tags - Which question tags to use and when.
• Reflexive Pronouns - Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
• Second Conditional - Second Conditional Sentences (if-clauses)
• Shall - The modal verb - Shall
• Should - The modal verb - Should (also Ought to)
• So vs. Such - The difference between So and Such
• Some - Any - A - An - When to use these words
• Still, Yet, Already - The difference between Still, Yet and Already
• Two - Too - To - The difference between these words that sound the same.
• Used to vs Use to - The difference between Used to and Use to.
• Very vs. Too vs. Enough - The difference between Very, Too and Enough.
• Would - The modal verb - Would

ADVANCED English Grammar

• Compound Adjectives - When to put the hyphen between adjectives
• If I were you - An explanation of why we say If I were and not If I was.
• Like vs. As - The difference between Like and As when used to compare.
• Passive Voice - The difference between Active and Passive sentences and examples of them
• So - Neither - Either
• Third Conditional - Third Conditional Sentences (if-clauses)
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs - The difference between transitive, intransitive and ambitransitive verbs
• Whoever, Whatever, Whenever - The difference between these W-ever words