Easy English Grammar

You'll find easy English grammar explanations linked from this page. I've experimented with different ways of explaining grammar to my students. These proved to be the ways in which they understood and started applying their knowledge the fastest.

So here are some easy English grammar explanations of the most important topics for learners:

• Personal Pronouns. They are the pronouns which refer to people: I, you, he, she, it, we, you (plural), they.

• Reflexive Pronouns. They are pronouns that you use then the subject and the object of the sentence are the same. For example: Julie enjoyedherself at the party.

• List of irregular verbs. It's really important to learn irregular verbs and their pronunciation. You use their second and third forms in past simple, perfect tenses, past forms of modal verbs… Irregular verb example: I have done my homework.

• List of prepositions. There are few sentences in English that don't contain at least one preposition. Some of them even have more than one meaning. Preposition example: Let's meet outside the hospital.

• Modal auxiliary verbs. They modify the meaning of verbs. Some of them have more than one meaning. Modal auxiliary example: I shouldleave now.

• Reported speech. When you "report" - that is tell somebody what another person said - you usually use reported speech. Reported speech example: He said he would be here as soon as possible.

• Passive. When you don't know or you don't care who did the action, you use passive. It's a rather formal style, therefore it's more common in writing. Passive example: I was told that he had left.

I am going to add more topics to this page whenever I can!