English Grammar Explanations

Grammar Terms	Location on Site	Examples
Adjectives	Adjectives	Susan is a beautiful girl.
Adverbs	Adverbs	The man walked slowly.
a/an the Articles	Articles	They have two children: a boy and a girl. The boy is 10 and the girl is 14.
Auxiliaries	Modal Auxiliaries	I am playing football.
Conditional Perfect Continuous	Conditional Perfect Continuous	I would have been studying medicine.
Conditional Perfect Simple	Conditional Perfect Simple	I would have phoned you.
Conditional Progressive Conditional Continuous	Conditional Continuous	I would be studying.
Conditional Conditional Simple	Conditional Simple	I would buy a boat.
Conjunctions	Conjunctions	I like tea and coffee.
Future Perfect Simple	Future Perfect	The builders will have finished by Thursday.
Future Perfect Progressive Future Perfect Continuous	Future Perfect Continuous	I will have been working here for 5 years in January.
Future Progressive Future Continuous	Future Continuous	This time next week, I’ll be lying on the beach.
Genitive s Apostrophe s Possessive s	Genitive s	Sean‘s brother
Gerund -ing form	Gerund	Swiming is fun.
going to-future	going to-future	We are going to get a new car soon.
if-clauses Conditional sentences Conditional clauses	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.
Imperative	The Imperative	Look out!
Indirect speech Reported speech	Reported Speech	Peter says that he plays tennis.
Indirect speech Reported speech	Reported Speech	Peter said that he played tennis.
Infinitive	Infinitive	Hillary was the first to climb Everest.
Infinitive	Infinitive	Why not buy her flowers for her birthday?
Long forms, short (contracted) forms	Long and short forms of auxiliaries	We aren’t from London.
Modals Modal auxiliaries	Modals	You mustn’t do that.
Nouns	Nouns	There is a hair in your soup!.
Passive voice	Passive voice	A house was built by John.
Past Perfect Progressive Past Perfect Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous	I had been waiting for 2 hours when she arrived.
Past Perfect Simple Simple Past Perfect	Past Perfect Simple	When we arrived the film had started.
Past Progressive Past Continuous	Past Continuous	I was watching television at 8 o’clock last night.
Personal pronouns	Personal pronouns	We watched television.
Plural	Plural	There are two chairs.
Possessive determiners Possessive pronouns	Possessive pronouns	That is my car.
Prepositions	Prepositions	The shoes are under the bed.
Present Perfect Progressive Present Perfect Continuous	Present Perfect Continuous	I have been waiting for you all morning.
Present Perfect Simple Simple Present Perfect	Present Perfect Simple	I have finished my homework.
Present Progressive Present Continuous	Present Continuous	She‘s talking to her friend.
Questions with question words	Questions with question words	Where are the girls?
Questions with question words	Questions with question words	When do you watch TV?
Question tags	Question tags in English	You are John, aren’t you?
Reflexive pronouns myself, herself, themselves	Reflexive pronouns	I cut myself.
Relative pronouns who, which, whose, that	Relative pronouns	My mother, who is 79, goes swimming every day.
Relative clauses without relative pronoubs Contact clauses	Contact clauses – no relative pronouns	This is the boy I met at the party yesterday.
Short answers	Short answers	Are you English? – Yes, I am.
Simple Past Past Simple	Simple Past	We cooked a meal last night.
Simple Present Present Simple	Simple Present	I always watch the news on television.
Singular	Singular/Plural	Here is one book.
Quantifiers some, any, much, many	Quantifiers	Are there any oranges?
Tenses	Tenses	I play tennis.
		I am playing tennis.
		I played tennis.
		I had played tennis.
		I will play tennis.
		I will have played tennis.
Demonstrative pronouns	this, that – these, those	This wife and those those are my children.
Verbs	Verbs	We play games.
will-future Future Simple	will-future	I will play tennis next Tuesday.
Word order	Word order	They play handball in the gym every Monday.
Yes/No questions Questions without question words	Yes/No questions	Are you from England?
Yes/No questions Questions without question words	Yes/No questions	Do you speak French?

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