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Discover gerunds in this intermediate English grammar lesson, where verbs like watch become watching and study becomes studying, functioning as nouns and used after go to express hobbies.

Learn about the two infinitives—zero and to-infinitive—and when to use them after thinking, feeling, and saying verbs, with examples like remember to turn off lights and agree to meet.

Master infinitives of purpose and learn to express why with to and phrases like so as to and in order not to, with examples.

Explore adjectives that take two infinitives to express opinions and reasons, using words like able, eager, likely, ready, happy, easy, and difficult, with the prepositions for and of.

Explore the difference between gerunds and infinitives, including stop with a gerund versus stop to do something. Note verbs that change meaning with gerund or infinitive.

Learn how to express the habitual past with used to and would, including negation and questions, through examples like we used to go camping.

Master the model verbs should and had better, learning when to give advice or strong warnings. Avoid the incorrect form had better to and study examples of proper usage.

Explore adverbs and how they describe verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or sentences. Learn the four kinds—time, place, manner, and degree—and how -ly forms or exceptions like fast work.

Discover adverbs of time and how they tell when events happen, including how long and how often, with examples like yesterday, now, daily, tomorrow, and since 2005.

Explore adverbs of place and how they show where an action occurs, including direction, distance, or movement, with examples like above, here, inside, and nowhere.

Explore adverbs of manner to show how actions happen, and learn their placement after the main verb or after its object, with examples like beautifully, quickly, and well.

Identify how adverbs of degree express intensity. Show how they precede the word they modify, as in extremely cold or very fast.

Explore how intensifiers and mitigators strengthen adjectives, comparatives, and superlatives, using examples like very, really, extremely, absolutely, and far to enhance meaning.