There Is and There Are
How to use there is and there are to say that something exists or is in a place, with negatives, questions and many simple examples.
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Word Order
English sentence structure rules — how to put words in the correct order.
Conditionals (Zero, First, Second, Third)
All four conditional types explained with clear rules, examples, and common mistakes.
Passive Voice
How to form and use the passive voice in English, with tense-by-tense examples.
Relative Clauses
How to use who, which, that, where, and when to add information to sentences with relative clauses.
Question Tags
How to form and use question tags — isn't it?, don't they?, can you? — for confirmation and conversation.
Conjunctions
How to connect ideas with and, but, because, although, while, and other conjunctions.
Subject-Verb Agreement
Tricky cases of subject-verb agreement — when the correct verb form isn't obvious.
Reported Speech
How to report what someone said — tense backshift rules, pronouns, time expressions, and special cases.
Mixed Conditionals
How to use mixed conditionals to connect an imaginary past with the present, or an imaginary present with the past.
Wish and If Only
How to use wish and if only to talk about present situations, past regrets and things that annoy you, and how wish differs from hope.
Inversion
How to use inversion after never, rarely, hardly, no sooner, not only and only when, plus inverted conditionals like 'Had I known'.
Cleft Sentences
How to use it-clefts and what-clefts (It was Anna who..., What I need is...) to focus on the most important part of a sentence.
Participle Clauses
How to use participle clauses with -ing, -ed and having done to give reasons, times, results and conditions, and how to avoid dangling participles.
Impersonal Passive: It Is Said That
How to use 'It is said that...' and 'He is said to...' to report what people think or say, with all the infinitive forms and past tenses.
Emphasis with Do, Does, Did
How to add emphasis in English with do, does and did, and with the very, at all, whatsoever, on earth, myself, so, such and absolutely.
Ellipsis and Substitution
How to avoid repeating words in English: one and ones, do and do so, I think so and I hope not, and leaving words out after auxiliaries and to.
Fronting
How to move an object, adjective or adverbial to the start of a sentence for focus, contrast or linking, with and without inversion.
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