Interactive Grammar: Clauses quiz
Learn independent and dependent clauses, relative clauses, and clause types in English.
Upper-intermediate English grammar lessons.
Learn independent and dependent clauses, relative clauses, and clause types in English.
Understand noun phrases, verb phrases, adverbial phrases, and how they function in sentences.
Rewrite ideas using different words and structures while keeping the same meaning — an essential skill for academic writing.
Use noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositions, and approximations to describe graphs, charts, and statistical information in English.
Learn naming words — common, proper, countable, uncountable, and collective nouns.
Understand action, stative, linking verbs and verb forms in English grammar.
Learn phrasal verbs — verb + particle combinations like give up, look after, and turn on — and how they change meaning in English.
Master when to use gerunds (-ing) and infinitives (to + verb) after verbs, adjectives, and prepositions in English.
Learn which prepositions follow specific nouns — like advantage of, effect on, and interest in — for accurate academic and everyday English.
Express causes and effects using 'because', 'because of', 'as a result', 'therefore', and other cause-and-effect signals in writing and speech.
Use participial phrases — present or past participle plus complements — to add descriptive information about nouns, making writing more concise and varied.
Use absolute phrases — a noun or pronoun plus a participle and any modifiers — to add contextual detail to a sentence without a subordinating conjunction.
Use multi-word prepositions — in addition to, as a result of, in spite of, with regard to — to combine and connect ideas in academic writing.
Describe actions that started in the past and are still continuing, or have recently stopped, using have/has been + -ing.
Use will be + -ing to describe actions that will be in progress at a specific future time, or to make polite enquiries.
Use had + past participle to describe an action completed before another past action — the tense that goes one step further back in time.
Describe actions in progress before a past point using the past perfect continuous.
Express actions that will be completed before a specific future point.
Describe the duration of an action up to a future moment.
Use 'would' and 'was/were going to' to describe something that was expected or planned in the past but relates to a future time from that past point.
Understand how tenses change in complex sentences, reported speech, and conditional clauses to maintain logical time relationships.
Review all conditional tense forms — zero, first, second, third, and mixed — focusing on the verb patterns in each conditional type.
Compare active and passive forms across all major tenses — from present simple to future perfect — in one comprehensive review.
Consolidate all major tenses through contrast questions and mixed-tense analysis.
Use past simple, continuous, and perfect together to tell stories accurately.
Describe imaginary or unlikely situations using if + past simple and would + infinitive.
Combine if-clauses from different time frames — past conditions with present results.
Explore advanced and inverted uses of the second conditional structure.
Deepen understanding of the third conditional and its hypothetical past uses.
Learn unless, provided that, as long as, supposing, and other conditional forms.
Use must, can't, could, might to express certainty and deduction about events.
Master should have, could have, might have, and would have structures.
Distinguish must, have to, need to, ought to and their negative and past forms.
Express degrees of probability using will, should, may, might, and could.
Learn to form and use the passive voice across all tenses to shift focus from the doer to the action or result.
Learn the step-by-step process of converting active sentences to passive across all tenses, with and without an agent.
Form the passive voice correctly in all tenses — present, past, future, perfect, and continuous — with clear examples.
Understand when to include and when to omit the agent (by + noun) in passive sentences, and how it changes emphasis and formality.
Combine modal verbs with the passive — must be done, should be checked, could have been avoided — for obligation, advice, and speculation.
Use impersonal passive structures — It is said that…, It is believed that…, It is reported that… — common in formal, journalistic, and academic English.
Use have/get + object + past participle to describe services arranged or caused — I had my car repaired. She got her hair done.
Distinguish between dynamic passives (describing actions: The window was broken) and stative passives (describing states: The window is broken).
Form passives from verbs with two objects — give, send, offer, show — choosing which object becomes the passive subject.
Master when to use active voice (direct, personal, dynamic) and when passive is preferred (formal, impersonal, unknown agent).
Use it is said that, he is believed to, they are thought to in formal writing.
Form and use passive infinitive structures — to be done, to have been done.
Understand passive gerund forms — being done, having been done — and their uses.
Master complex passive constructions across all tenses and modal forms.
Learn when to use NO article in English — with plural nouns, uncountable nouns, proper nouns, and fixed expressions.
Use who, which, that, whose, where, and when to add information about people, things, and places.
Reduce relative clauses using present and past participles for concise writing.
Use present and past participle clauses to add information concisely.
Master defining and non-defining relative clauses with all relative pronouns.
Use inverted word order after never, rarely, not only, no sooner, and similar adverbials.
Organise ideas and improve text cohesion using discourse markers in formal writing.
Master a wide range of linking words and phrases for academic and formal English.
Express contrast using although, even though, despite, in spite of, whereas, and while.
Use formal connectors and transitional phrases for academic essays and professional writing.
Report suggestions using suggest + -ing, suggest + that-clause, and other reporting verb patterns for recommendations.
Report advice using advise, recommend, urge + object + to-infinitive or advise + that-clause patterns.
Report warnings using warn + object + not to-infinitive and warn + that-clause — essential for academic and formal writing.
Report invitations using invite/ask + object + to-infinitive and understand how to soften or make invitations more formal.
Master the system of tense changes in reported speech — when backshift applies and when it can be avoided.
Learn the complete backshift table: present → past, past → past perfect, will → would, can → could, and more.
Report past simple and past continuous statements with backshift to past perfect and past perfect continuous.
Report will, going to, and present continuous future by changing to would, was/were going to, and was/were + -ing.
Report modal verbs correctly: will → would, can → could, may → might, must → had to, shall → should.
Report present perfect and past perfect tenses — understanding when backshift applies and when it does not change.
Convert time expressions: now → then, today → that day, tomorrow → the next day, last year → the previous year.
Convert place expressions: here → there, this room → that room, come → go — with practical examples from real contexts.
Convert this → that, these → those, and understand how demonstratives shift perspective in indirect speech.
Use advise, suggest, recommend, urge, encourage + correct patterns to report advice and suggestions accurately.
Use claim, argue, believe, maintain, assert, contend + that-clause to attribute opinions and arguments to specific people.
Report complex sentences that mix tenses and understand when backshift is optional or when the meaning would change.
Report informal conversations naturally — choosing the right reporting verb, tense, and register for everyday spoken English.
Use reported speech in journalistic writing — attribution, reporting verbs, and the conventions of news-style indirect speech.
Choose the appropriate register when reporting speech — formal structures for academic/business contexts vs natural structures in conversation.
Report conditional and hypothetical statements accurately — managing if-clauses, would, could, might in reported contexts.
Identify and correct the most frequent reported speech errors — wrong tense, wrong pronoun, incorrect word order in reported questions.
Fix the most common tense errors: forgetting backshift, wrong perfect form, incorrect modal change.
Correct pronoun mistakes: keeping I/we/you unchanged instead of shifting to he/she/they/I appropriately.
Avoid errors with reporting verbs — wrong pattern after say/tell, incorrect preposition, wrong infinitive or gerund form.
Use natural spoken reporting patterns — dropping that, optional tense changes, discourse markers like apparently and supposedly.
Use indirect questions to ask politely: Could you tell me…? Do you know…? I was wondering whether… — and report what someone asked.
Learn essential verb + preposition collocations — depend on, apologize for, agree with, result in, and others.
Use multi-word prepositions — despite, because of, due to, in addition to, as a result of — in formal writing.
Handle subject-verb agreement in sentences with inverted order, relative clauses, and intervening phrases.
Write more clearly and efficiently by cutting unnecessary words, avoiding wordiness, and expressing ideas in the fewest words possible without losing meaning.
Identify and eliminate redundant words and phrases — saying the same thing twice — to produce cleaner, more professional English writing.
Use parentheses () and square brackets [] correctly to add supplementary information, clarifications, and editorial insertions in formal and academic English writing.
Use the same grammatical form for equal elements in a sentence — coordinate verbs, nouns, phrases, and clauses with balanced parallel structure.
Identify and correct misplaced modifiers (wrong position) and dangling modifiers (no clear noun to modify) to write precise, unambiguous English sentences.
Link sentences and paragraphs with cohesive devices — pronouns, connectors, lexical chains — and ensure a logical, unified flow of ideas throughout a text.
Master the three 'used to' structures: used to + infinitive for past habits, be used to + -ing for familiarity, and get used to + -ing for becoming accustomed to something.
Distinguish between like (preposition — similar to) and as (conjunction — in the same way that / role) to make accurate comparisons and describe roles in English.
Learn how to use so (followed by an adjective or adverb) and such (followed by a noun phrase) for emphasis and expressing degree in English sentences.