Introduction
- Introduction
Fix your tenses
- Consistency in tenses
- Past simple vs past progressive vs present perfect: Part 1
- Past simple vs past progressive vs present perfect: Part 2
- Will vs be going to: 'I will help you' or 'I'm going to help you?'
- State verbs (non-progressive verbs): I'm still remembering his name?
Agreement matters
- Subject- verb agreement: He tells funny jokes!
- S-V agreement in paired conjunctions: Neither they nor I was right.
- S-V agreement irregularities: Ten dollars is a lot of money to him.
Plural or singular, that is the question.
- One/each/every/none of...: One of my friends was a magician.
- Some/most/a lot of/a quarter of/...: Most action movies have some violence.
- 'The number of' vs 'a number of': A number of people turned up.
- A few, few, a little, little: We have few eggs left. Go and buy some today.
- One, another, the other: One was vanilla and the other was chocolate.
Talking about uncertain events in the past
- Should/must/might have done: She must have forgotten about it.
Using verbs in different forms
- Gerunds and infinitives 1: I failed 'to return' or 'returning' the book???
- Gerunds and infinitives 2: I forgot 'to lock' or 'locking' the door???
- Verbs of perception: I saw him play the piano.
- Causative verbs: He made me leave.
A noun phrase or a clause
- During vs while vs for: I dozed off 'during' or 'while' his presentation???
- Although vs despite: I went to the park 'although' or 'despite' the bad weather?
Conditionals
- 'If' conditionals: If I hadn't missed your call, I would've come to you.
- I wish: I wish I could speak English fluently.
Punctuation and spelling
- Using commas in different occasions: When I was about to leave, he called.
- Run-on sentences and sentence fragments
- Direct speech and reported speech: 'I'll call you tommorow,' he said.
- Most common spelling mistakes IELTS takers make
Final words
- Advice for your grammar study
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