Basic to Advanced: Master English Grammar and Verb Tenses

Begin your grammar journey by learning the basic building blocks of sentences—verbs, adverbs, nouns, and subjects—and explore resources with over 100 practice exercises and punctuation guidance.

Explore independent and dependent clauses, identify sentence fragments, and learn to craft complete sentences with clear subjects and verbs, using practical fixes and exercises.

Master how conjunctions connect parts of sentences with coordinating fanboys and subordinating links, using examples like because, and access a downloadable list of 24 subordinating conjunctions with practice exercises.

Practice distinguishing complete sentences from incomplete ones using independent and dependent clauses, with progressively harder exercises and a downloadable worksheet to check your answers.

Analyze complete and incomplete sentences by examining independent and dependent clauses, apply comma rules with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, and fix grammar explanations.

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Fix run-on sentences by breaking complex ideas into short, direct statements. Use basic punctuation and one idea per sentence to improve clarity in business writing.

Break run-on sentences into clear, simple statements by rewriting product descriptions with concise phrasing, avoiding excessive buzzwords and unclear wording.

Master the four types of sentences—simple, compound, complex, and complex compound—and learn to build clear, efficient sentences for business writing. Explore independent and dependent clauses for clear writing.

Master the difference between active voice and passive voice, learning how active constructions are concise, direct, and clearer with examples and shorter sentences.

Master comma rules to clarify writing and boost confidence across literature and business, including comma before coordinating conjunctions, lists, introductory adverbs, direct address, and dependent clauses.

Practice comma usage with exercise four and download the worksheet to work offline. Review the instructor's answers in the next video and use the parentheses hints to recall the rule.

Practice fixing grammar mistakes in a real sales description, learn proofreading for professional writing, and improve clarity, punctuation, and consistency in business communications.

Analyze how to fix run on sentences, comma placement, and awkward phrasing in a handwriting course sales text, improving clarity and impact through targeted rewriting.

Explore three semicolon rules: join related independent clauses, use with conjunctive adverbs or phrases, and separate items in long, punctuated lists.

Practice semicolon exercises that identify correct and incorrect cases, focusing on combining two independent clauses with a semicolon and coordinating conjunctions, and on capitalization after semicolons.

Master four colon rules to improve writing: use colons to introduce lists, between independent clauses, for emphasis, and when linking sentences after a colon, with proper capitalization guidance.

Practice colon usage with exercises that emphasize lists and explain independent clauses. Explore capitalization rules after colons and compare your answers with the provided key.

Review colon usage with concrete exercises, highlighting how to introduce lists, join independent clauses, and capitalize after colons using examples like I love one city, London.

Learn how to use question marks correctly in both simple and complex sentences, turning statements into polite questions, handling direct vs indirect questions, and managing multiple questions in professional writing.

Master the use of quotation marks, including run-in and block quotations, direct quotes, and exact references. Apply correct punctuation, capitalization, indentation, and determine when punctuation goes inside quotes versus outside.

Practice using quotation marks with correct punctuation, capitalization, and direct quotes through guided examples and exercises. Learn when to quote, paraphrase, and place periods and commas inside quotation marks.

Explore when to use hyphens in English, from compound modifiers and numbers spelled out to prefixes, fractions, and long-term terms, with clear examples and rules.

Master English hyphenation by applying the rule that you hyphenate when the compound precedes the noun and do not hyphenate when the noun comes after; examples include well-known, high-quality, lesser-known.

Master common hyphenated terms and memorize phrases like check in, merry go round, father in law, mother in law, over the counter, state of the art, and up to date.

Engage in an interactive hyphen rules quiz that uses a downloadable paragraph and explains when to hyphen before or after verbs, compound adjectives, numbers, fractions, and adverbs.

Explore newly added optional exercises and a resources folder with examples to reinforce your writing and grammar building blocks, with exercises, answers, and explanations that don't interfere with the course.

Engage in a two-part english grammar and punctuation exercise: count errors in a sample text and fix them, then compare your fixes with the forthcoming walkthrough in the next video.

This video walks through the answers to English grammar and punctuation exercises, highlighting errors like spacing after periods, unnecessary paragraph breaks, run-on sentences, and hyphenation, with fixes.

Learn to distinguish its and it's, your and you're, then and than, and fewer and less, to avoid common grammar errors that affect first impressions.

Explain the difference between let's and lets, showing that let's is let us with an apostrophe and lets means allows, with a simple test to decide which form to use.

master the who versus whom rule by using he or she and him or her as a quick check, clarifying subject and object usage with practical examples.

Learn how ten commonly misspelled words slip past spell check and autocorrect, and how context affects word choice in business writing.

Engage in a common word-choice error exercise to test your knowledge by identifying errors and providing corrections, with it vs it's, your vs you're, and let's look at downloadable text.

Identify ten common word-choice errors in a practical exercise, covering apostrophes in let's, who vs whom, accept vs except, its vs it's, past vs passed, and than vs then.

Explore regular and irregular verbs, with strategies to master past tenses by focusing on a few common irregulars, using paired practice and downloadable exercise lists.

Explore the English tenses from past, present, and future, including the differences between simple past and present perfect, using a chart of forms: simple, continuous, perfect simple, and perfect continuous.

Explore the four verb forms: simple, continuous, perfect simple, and perfect continuous, and see how simple and continuous recur in perfect forms, including future examples.

Clarify when to use went versus have gone by contrasting simple past with perfect past, showing have gone as a completed action and went as a past event.

Practice identifying and correcting verb tenses through an exercise that fixes the text and counts errors. Test yourself, then watch the next video for the fixes.

Identify and correct verb tense errors in sample sentences, including past, present, and future forms, by reviewing fixes and counting tense mistakes in the exercise.

Learn tactics to remove parasite words and fillers, strengthen sentence structure, and sound confident and sophisticated while improving grammar.

Explore the impact of parasite words like um, like, and well on professional speech and confidence; learn to replace them with silence for clearer, sharper communication.

Identify and prune parasite filler words such as any, because, and that, to make speech concise; analyze examples and replace bland terms with precise language.

Identify unnecessary uses of the word that to reduce bloat in writing and speaking. Rewrite examples to improve sentence structure, clarity, and rhythm.

Explore how parasite word personalities, including the word and, create repetitive speech and how to fix it with silence or varied segues to add pace and storytelling depth.

Identify parasite words like actually, literally, and totally, learn why they add filler rather than value, and replace them with specific descriptions to sharpen business and writing clarity.

Explore how unconfident bad salespeople rely on filler words like okay, sort of, and kind of, harming credibility; learn to replace or remove filler words with clearer, descriptive language.

Explore how so functions as a connector, showing correct use like 'it was raining, so we cancelled the picnic' and warn against overusing it as a parasite word.

Identify parasite and filler words in language, learn patterns to remove unnecessary words, and tighten your speech for more concise communication.

Identify and remove common filler phrases that create bloat, such as what happens is and what I mean is. Learn to recognize pseudocleft sentences to improve clarity and emphasize meaning.

Practice identifying and removing parasite words with a structured two-minute video exercise, recording about a chair, artificial intelligence, and the future of AI, with feedback and self-review.

Practice removing filler words to improve sentence concision by starting with the basics and deleting words such as so or unnecessary openings.

Identify filler phrases and replace them with precise single words to clarify meaning; learn to connect haste with not proofreading and choose more descriptive, concise sentence constructions.

Learn to obtain your certificate by completing all sections and quizzes to 100 percent, then download or email the certificate and update your name if needed.

Conclude the course with motivation, persistence, and time management, while offering support and inviting questions to help you continue improving your English grammar and verb tenses.