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State verbs
Catherine and Neil explain the right way to use these verbs.
Present perfect and past simple
We talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.
Question tags
"You didn't eat all the chocolate, did you?" Learn how to use 'did you' - a question tag.
Will, going to, might
Finn and Catherine talk about the future.
'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'
Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.
Subject questions
Learn how to form questions when you want to ask about a subject or an object.
Present tenses
Find out how to use the present simple, present continuous and present perfect tenses.
Present perfect continuous
Learn how to use the present perfect continuous tense.
Quantifiers
Learn how to use 'both', 'every', 'all', 'each', 'either' and 'neither'.
Phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs
To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.
First and zero conditional
Learn how to use two types of conditional sentences
Modals of deduction and speculation
Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.
The past perfect
Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.
Adjectives and adverbs
We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.
The third conditional
Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.
Linking devices: cause and effect
Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.
Reported speech
What to do with pronouns, tenses and word order when you report what someone else says.
Active and passive voice
Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.
Comparatives and superlatives
Catherine and Finn discuss comparatives and superlatives鈥 and commuting!
Adverb position
We talk about the three positions where adverbs usually go when used with verbs.
The definite article with abstract uncountable nouns
Learn all about the word 'the' and how to use it with abstract uncountable nouns.
Talking about the future
Learn how to use 'will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' to talk about the future.
Relative clauses
Learn how to use defining and non-defining relative clauses.
Adverb position 2
We discuss where we use adverbs with adjectives and other adverbs.
Narrative tenses
What tenses do we use to tell stories in English?