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Tenses

Listen to Neil and Catherine discussing how to use six different English tenses.

• 6 mins

Indirect questions

Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

• 6 mins

Present and past passives

Passive forms can be tricky to understand but Rob, Neil and Mike are here to help you.

• 6 mins

First Conditional

Learn all about the first conditional in 6 minute grammar.

• 6 mins

The second conditional

Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!

• 6 mins

State verbs

Catherine and Neil explain the right way to use these verbs.

• 6 mins

Present perfect and past simple

We talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.

• 6 mins

Question tags

"You didn't eat all the chocolate, did you?" Learn how to use 'did you' - a question tag.

• 6 mins

Will, going to, might

Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

• 6 mins

'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'

Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.

• 6 mins

Subject questions

Learn how to form questions when you want to ask about a subject or an object.

• 6 mins

Present tenses

Find out how to use the present simple, present continuous and present perfect tenses.

• 6 mins

Present perfect continuous

Learn how to use the present perfect continuous tense.

• 6 mins

Quantifiers

Learn how to use 'both', 'every', 'all', 'each', 'either' and 'neither'.

• 6 mins

Phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs

To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.

• 6 mins

First and zero conditional

Learn how to use two types of conditional sentences

• 6 mins

Modals of deduction and speculation

Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.

• 6 mins

The past perfect

Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.

• 5 mins

Adjectives and adverbs

We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.

• 6 mins

The third conditional

Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.

• 6 mins

Linking devices: cause and effect

Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.

• 6 mins

Reported speech

What to do with pronouns, tenses and word order when you report what someone else says.

• 6 mins

Active and passive voice

Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.

• 6 mins

Comparatives and superlatives

Catherine and Finn discuss comparatives and superlatives鈥� and commuting!

• 6 mins

Adverb position

We talk about the three positions where adverbs usually go when used with verbs.

• 6 mins

The definite article with abstract uncountable nouns

Learn all about the word 'the' and how to use it with abstract uncountable nouns.

• 6 mins

Talking about the future

Learn how to use 'will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' to talk about the future.

• 6 mins

Relative clauses

Learn how to use defining and non-defining relative clauses.

• 6 mins

Adverb position 2

We discuss where we use adverbs with adjectives and other adverbs.

• 6 mins

Narrative tenses

What tenses do we use to tell stories in English?

• 6 mins