
Explains the two main uses of the simple present tense—general truths and personal habits—while detailing time expressions and adverbs of frequency like always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never.
Present continuous tense is formed with am/is/are plus verb-ing and describes events happening now or for now, and near-future personal plans.
Explore state verbs and their use with simple present and present continuous, including why they do not take continuous tenses, with examples like love, believe, and own.
Identify how the simple past tense marks one-time events, long past actions, and past habits. Illustrate with examples such as I saw Ebbe yesterday and Messi played for Barcelona.
Master the past continuous tense: the structure was or were with verb-ing, and use it for ongoing actions in the past, and actions in progress at a past moment.
Explore present perfect function one: states that started in the past and continue today, using have/has plus past participle, and since and for expressing starting points and durations.
Explore the third to fifth functions of the present perfect tense: actions completed a short time ago, time still true, and recently completed actions with visible effects.
Explore the present perfect tense with time expressions such as ever since, since then, to date, recently, lately, and over the last period to show ongoing states and past relevance.
Learn will future basics: will + base verb and its three functions—predicting the future, making decisions at the moment of speaking, and actions that will happen by themselves.
Learn how time linkers such as when, once, and as soon as express future meaning, with simple present or present perfect, and why future tenses can't be used with them.
Explore time linkers like every time, last time, and next time, and learn how they pair with present, past, and future tenses, including timetable usage and future meaning.
Learn to use future continuous for actions in progress at a future time, and future perfect for actions completed before another future time, with by and by the time.
Explore the future perfect continuous tense, the will have been form, and how it underlines duration before a future point with examples.
Explore permission and request modals in English, distinguishing fixed model auxiliaries from flexible phrasal forms, with practical examples of may, could, can, will, and would you mind.
Identify obligation models in English grammar, explaining must and have to as expressions of personal and external necessity, with past and present forms like had to and didn't have to.
Explore advice models in English, including should, ought to, had better, and must and have to, with their positive and negative forms and varying strength.
Discover how to express expectation with be supposed to and be expected to. Also learn past forms like was supposed to and common suggestion modals such as let's and shall.
Learn how to express ability with can and be able to, distinguish present and past forms, and use could and was able to for general versus one-time events.
Explore habit models for past habits using three structures: used to, simple past, would. Identify how they express actions versus states and contrasts with get used to.
Discover how to express preferences using would rather, would prefer, and would like, with present and past forms and examples of be and have to convey different time frames.
Explore probability models using may, might, could, be likely to, and be bound to, and learn how must, mustn't, and cannot express strong certainty.
Discover how modality progressive expresses present continuous meaning with be + ing, and how weak and strong probability guide present interpretation. Learn how should and ought to give present advice.
Explore modality perfect and have plus verb three, including past-advice with should have and ought to have, past possibilities with may, might, could have, and strong probability with must have.
explains modality perfect, focusing on past probability and missed opportunities with could have, including if-type three, and contrasts needn't have with didn't need to.
Master the passive voice by identifying when the object or action matters more than the doer, forming passives from transitive verbs, and using by when the doer is important.
Master the passive voice by forming be plus past participle across simple, continuous, and perfect tenses, including modals; learn that perfect continuous has no passive form.
Explains using verb three as adjectives, with examples like broken window and stolen items, and contrasts active -ing with passive -ed meanings, plus get past participle as a passive form.
Explore reported passives in two forms: impersonal with it as the subject, and with a real subject; after passive, use to-infinitive or to have past participle for past meaning.
Explore causatives, showing how positives express causing someone to do something, structures: have something done, have someone do something, get something done, and get someone to do something.
Debunk the myth that gerunds and infinitives are just memorization. Learn how they turn verbs into nouns and can function as subjects or objects, with rules for state verbs.
Learn which verbs are followed by gerunds, with examples like enjoy reading and the doctor advised drinking fluids, and memorize a common list of gerund verbs.
Explore gerunds with fixed expressions in English, including be used to, get accustomed to, look forward to, feel like, be opposed to, and can't help.
Learn how infinitives function in subject and object positions, compare them with gerunds, and use to-infinitives after be to express stronger meanings in everyday sentences.
Explore verb plus infinitive constructions and learn which verbs are followed by to-infinitive. Memorize common infinitive verbs with examples like need to, plan to, and want to.
Learn verb plus someone to do something, with common verbs for requests and permissions, plus notes on gerund and infinitive use and American vs British differences.
Explore infinitive uses beyond the basics, including infinitive of purpose with in order to or so as to, and adjectives or nouns that take infinitives, with examples.
Explore how infinitives pair with adjectives to express ability or impossibility, using the structures too adjective to verb and adjective enough to verb, with clear examples.
Explore gerunds and infinitives with passive meaning, showing when to use being past participle and to be past participle after passive structures, with clear examples.
Explore causative and causative-like structures and positives, including let, help, and make with infinitives, and how have/get someone to do something or have something done expresses causing actions.
Compare gerunds and infinitives, covering subject and object positions, verbs that take each form, adjectives and abstract nouns with infinitives, and essential patterns like infinitive of purpose and causative structures.
Learn how adjectives and adverbs describe nouns, form active versus passive meanings with -ing and -ed forms, and use perception verbs like look, feel, and sound with adjectives.
Explore how adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, form by adding -ly to adjectives, and intensify or weaken meaning with examples like loudly, quickly, and terribly.
Explore irregular adverbs and adverbs of degree, including good to well and fast to hard, lately, hardly, and using quite, pretty, rather, and fairly before adjectives and adverbs.
Explore how enough and too combine with adjectives, adverbs, and nouns, including enough to do something and too much, too many, and too little in everyday usage.
Learn how to form comparatives and superlatives and their uses, using -er for short adjectives and more for longer ones, with examples like faster, cheaper, and richer.
Master the more, the more comparative by linking two events with faster, older, or cheaper constructions, and learning the subject-verb-object order plus elder versus older usage.
Learn to form English superlatives for three or more items, using -est or most, with possessive exceptions, and use in with places, of with times, and present perfect for experiences.
The course aims to teach all major grammar topics from pre-intermediate to upper-intermediate levels (A2-B2 levels). Most important features of this course are as follows:
The instructor uses a simple and easy-to-follow language.
The instructor really TEACHES the grammar points in detail, and does not simply read the notes and go over the materials.
The course concentrates only on important grammar points. The instructor is really careful to include only significant details. He skips points that are either too easy or too unnecessarily detailed.
All the course materials, including course notes, exercises, and other support materials are presented in .pdf format, so that the learners can follow the course easily by taking their own notes.
Grammar points are presented through original and fun-to-read examples. The instructor has carefully avoided boring and commonly-used examples.
The course offers extremely rich, highest quality support materials. This will help you practice the points that you have learnt in great detail.
Grammar points are presented through really fun movie clips, songs, poems, and many other fun elements. This will help you have fun while learning and also become more knowledgeable in American and British pop culture, in particular.
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