English Grammar Explanations
| Grammar Terms | Location on Site | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Adjectives | Susan is a beautiful girl. |
| Adverbs | The man walked slowly. |
| Articles | They have two children: a boy and a girl. The boy is 10 and the girl is 14. |
| Modal Auxiliaries | I am playing football. |
| Conditional Perfect Continuous | I would have been studying medicine. |
| Conditional Perfect Simple | I would have phoned you. |
| Conditional Continuous | I would be studying. |
| Conditional Simple | I would buy a boat. |
| Conjunctions | I like tea and coffee. |
| Future Perfect | The builders will have finished by Thursday. |
| Future Perfect Continuous | I will have been working here for 5 years in January. |
| Future Continuous | This time next week, I’ll be lying on the beach. |
| Genitive s | Sean‘s brother |
| Gerund | Swiming is fun. |
| going to-future | We are going to get a new car soon. |
| Conditional sentences | If I study, I will pass the exam. |
| If I studied, I would pass the exam. | ||
| If I had studied, I would have passed the exam. | ||
| The Imperative | Look out! |
| Reported Speech | Peter says that he plays tennis. |
| Peter said that he played tennis. | ||
| Infinitive | Hillary was the first to climb Everest. |
| Why not buy her flowers for her birthday? | ||
| Long and short forms of auxiliaries | We aren’t from London. |
| Modals | You mustn’t do that. |
| Nouns | There is a hair in your soup!. |
| Passive voice | A house was built by John. |
| Past Perfect Continuous | I had been waiting for 2 hours when she arrived. |
| Past Perfect Simple | When we arrived the film had started. |
| Past Continuous | I was watching television at 8 o’clock last night. |
| Personal pronouns | We watched television. |
| Plural | There are two chairs. |
| Possessive pronouns | That is my car. |
| Prepositions | The shoes are under the bed. |
| Present Perfect Continuous | I have been waiting for you all morning. |
| Present Perfect Simple | I have finished my homework. |
| Present Continuous | She‘s talking to her friend. |
| Questions with question words | Where are the girls? |
| When do you watch TV? | ||
| Question tags in English | You are John, aren’t you? |
| Reflexive pronouns | I cut myself. |
| Relative pronouns | My mother, who is 79, goes swimming every day. |
| Contact clauses – no relative pronouns | This is the boy I met at the party yesterday. |
| Short answers | Are you English? – Yes, I am. |
| Simple Past | We cooked a meal last night. |
| Simple Present | I always watch the news on television. |
| Singular/Plural | Here is one book. |
| Quantifiers | Are there any oranges? |
| Tenses | I play tennis. |
| I am playing tennis. | ||
| I played tennis. | ||
| I had played tennis. | ||
| I will play tennis. | ||
| I will have played tennis. | ||
| this, that – these, those | This wife and those those are my children. |
| Verbs | We play games. |
| will-future | I will play tennis next Tuesday. |
| Word order | They play handball in the gym every Monday. |
| Yes/No questions | Are you from England? |
| Do you speak French? |