You will find lots of English grammar and English writing lessons on this page.
Punctuation
Essay writing
- How to write a descriptive essay
- How to write an essay
- Essay writing tips
- Paragraph writing tips
- Popular quotations in English
- Figures of speech
High School Letter Samples
- Class 10 letter sample | Informal letter
- Class 10 letter sample | Informal letter to uncle
- Class 10 letter sample | Informal letter to son
English Grammar Lessons
- 15 Grammar terms you should know
- What are adjectives?
- Adjective or adverb
- Adjective clause
- Adverb clause
- When to use the passive verb
- Perfect infinitives | have + past participle
- Phrases with such
- That is it | that is that | and all that
- The person who, the thing that | words used to emphasise
- The more…the more… | conversational structures with the…the…
- Too…to | Conversational structures
- Used to | Be used to
- Wh-question words
- Conversational structures with let
- Exclamations
Writing Tips
Conjunctions
- What are conjunctions?
- How to identify conjunctions
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Conjunctions vs. relative pronouns
- Correlative conjunctions
- The conjunctions and, but, or
- Common mistakes in the use of conjunctions
- Correct use of some conjunctions
- Conjunctions | common errors
- So as a conjunction
- Words expressing concession and contrast
- Nor
Conditional Clauses / If clauses
- Zero conditional
- Type 1 / First 1 conditional
- Type 2 conditional / second conditional
- If vs. unless vs. in case vs. provided that
- Mixed conditional
Verbs
- What are verbs?
- Introduction to verbs
- How to identify verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Common mistakes in the use of verbs
- Verbs not used in the passive
- Copular verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Verbs of incomplete predication
- Rules of subject-verb agreement
- Transitive and intransitive verbs
- Two word verbs
- Verb patterns lesson 1
- Verb patterns lesson 2
- Verb patterns lesson 3
- Verb patterns lesson 4
- Verb patterns lesson 5
- Verb patterns exercise
Non-finite verbs
- Ing form vs. Infinitive
- What are gerunds?
- When and where to use gerunds
- Infinitive phrases
- Progressive infinitives
- Perfect infinitives
- Adjectives that can be followed by infinitives
- Verbs that can be followed by infinitives
- Different forms of the infinitive
- Infinitive without to
- Infinitive with its own subject
- Gerunds or ing forms
Participles
Relative clauses / Adjective clauses
- Adjective clauses
- Identifying relative clauses
- What are relative clauses?
- Relative pronouns
- Relative adverbs
Adverb clauses
Adjectives
- Common mistakes in the use of adjectives
- Kinds of adjectives
- Order of adjectives
- Adjectives used without nouns
- Adjectives of quantity
- Adjectives | Attributive position
- Gradable adjectives and adverbs
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Distributive adjectives
- Numeral adjectives
- How to identify adjectives
- Possessive adjectives
- Predicative position of adjectives
Adverbs
- What are adverbs?
- How to identify adverbs
- Position of adverbs
- Formation of adverbs
- Adverb phrases
- Common mistakes in the use of adverbs
- Adverbs vs. Adverbs confusing cases
- The adverb too
- Comparison of adverbs
- Adverbs of certainty
- Adverbs of degree
- Adverbs of indefinite frequency
- Focus adverbs
- Adverbs of manner
- Adverbs of place
- Position of frequency adverbs
- Enough vs. too
- Position of only and even
- Using too and enough
Pronouns
- Pronouns
- Personal pronouns
- Reflexive and emphatic pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Distributive pronouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- Interrogative pronouns
- It as a pronoun
- Possessive pronouns
- Pronouns after as and than
- Common errors in the use of pronouns
- Relative pronouns who, which and that
Articles
- Using articles correctly
- Common expressions without articles
- Indefinite article
- Cases where articles are omitted
- Cases where the indefinite article (a/an) is omitted
- A, an or the – what to use?
Nouns
- What are nouns?
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Plural forms of nouns
- Irregular plurals
- Possessive nouns
Sentences
- Kinds of sentences
- What is a sentence?
- Simple sentence, complex sentence, compound sentence
- Complex sentence
- Compound sentence
- Joining two sentences | Sentence synthesis
- Joining two sentences with a relative pronoun
- Joining two sentences with a present participle
- Joining two or more simple sentences into a compound sentence
- Order of words in a sentence
Subject and predicate
- Parts of speech
- It as a preparatory subject and object
- Subject and object complements
- Complements of adjectives
- How to make negatives in English
Determiners
Active and passive voice
- Active and passive voice | basic rules
- Passive verb forms
- When to use the passive voice
- Changing imperative sentences into the passive
- Changing questions into passive voice
Tenses
- Simple present tense
- Present continuous tense | form and uses
- Simple present vs. present continuous tense
- Present tenses to talk about future
- Present perfect tense | form and uses
- Present perfect tense with definite time adverbs
- How to use the present perfect tense correctly
- Present perfect continuous tense | form and uses
- Simple past tense
- Simple past vs. present perfect tense
- Past continuous tense uses
- Past perfect continuous tense uses
- Past perfect tense
- Simple future tense
- Future continuous tense
- Future perfect tense
- Sequence of verb tenses
- Tenses in subordinate clauses
- Sequence of tenses in a complex sentence
Auxiliary verbs
- Be as an auxiliary verb
- Primary auxiliary verbs
- Do as an ordinary verb and auxiliary verb
- Using do and does for emphasis
- Have | Grammatical structures
- Must vs. Have to
Modal auxiliary verbs
- Modal auxiliary verbs
- Can
- Could
- May
- May vs. Can
- Might
- Would
- Using need
- Must
- Must vs. Have to
- Ought to
- Need as an ordinary verb and auxiliary verb
- Will as a modal auxiliary verb
- Shall
- Will vs. shall
- Should
- Would as a modal auxiliary verb
Prepositions
- What preposition to use
- How to identify prepositions
- Commonly confused prepositions
- Against
- At
- Behind
- Beyond
- Down
- For
- In
- On
- In and into, on and on to
- Of
- Off
- Uses of prepositions
- Prepositions common mistakes
- Prepositions at the end of clauses
- Prepositions | Some points to remember
- Phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs
Degrees of comparison
- Degrees of comparison
- Positive, comparative and superlative
- Comparison using positive adjectives and adverbs
- Comparison using comparative adjectives and adverbs
- Difference between comparative and superlative
Sentence synthesis
Relative pronouns
Direct and indirect speech
- Reported Speech Overview
- Direct and indirect speech | Basic rules
- How to change direct speech to indirect speech
American and British English Differences
- American and British English | Differences in Grammar
- American and British English | Differences in Usage
- American and British English | Differences in Spelling
- American and British English | Differences in Vocabulary
- Vocabulary differences between American and British English
Questions
Letter writing
- Email writing tips
- Personal letter writing tips
- Resume writing tips
- Abbreviations in formal letters
- Formal and informal speech and writing
- Condolence letter writing tips
- Autobiography writing tips with example
- Precis writing tips
- How to write a precis?
Writing tips
- How to add variety to your writing?
- Common writing mistakes to avoid
- Common writing mistakes of ESL students
- How to proofread your writing
- Some useful spelling rules
- 10 Tips for learning English
- Cardinal and ordinal numbers
- List of contracted forms in English
- Understanding Newspaper Headlines
- How to write numbers in English
- When to use surnames and titles