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SOUND FAMILIAR?
Can you relate to this?
It is late in the evening. You are writing an important email in English, maybe to a client, a teacher or a company you want to work for.
You read one sentence again. “I have sent the file yesterday.” Or is it “I sent the file yesterday”? You change it. Then you change it back.
You open Google or Reddit, looking for one clear rule. What should have been a quick email is taking far longer than it should.
In the end, you click Send and hope you chose correctly.
Or you are in a meeting. You know exactly what you want to say, but you start checking the grammar in your head. Since or for? By the time you are ready, the conversation has moved on.
The difficulty comes when two versions both sound right. Without a clear rule, you have nothing to settle the question. You choose one, but the same doubt comes back the next time you write.
Try these five sentences. Each one tests a common mistake.
THE 5-QUESTION QUIZ
Do you make these five mistakes in English?
Choose your answers, then check your score and the reasons.
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1. Could you give me ____?
some advice / an advice / some advices
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: Could you give me some advice?
Why: Advice is uncountable in English, so it cannot follow a or an, and we do not say advices. Say some advice or a piece of advice.
2. I have lived here ____ 2021.
for / since
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: I have lived here since 2021.
Why: Since gives the starting point: since 2021. For gives the length of time: for five years.
3. We ____ at a conference in 2022.
have met / met
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: We met at a conference in 2022.
Why: In 2022 is a finished time, so use the past simple. The present perfect cannot go with a finished time such as yesterday, last week or in 2022.
4. We ____ the timetable.
discussed about / discussed on / discussed
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: We discussed the timetable.
Why: Discuss takes its object directly, with no preposition: you discuss something. About follows the noun: a discussion about the timetable.
5. You ____ attend the extra session. It is optional.
don’t have to / mustn’t
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: You don’t have to attend the extra session.
Why: Don’t have to means it is not necessary: you can choose. Mustn’t means it is not allowed.
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A LOOK INSIDE PRO
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This screenshot is from “Past simple or present perfect?” — the lesson behind question 3.
Common mistakes, a worked example and a rule to remember.
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Common mistakes
Not this: I have seen him yesterday.
Say this: I saw him yesterday.
Not this: When have you arrived?
Say this: When did you arrive?
Not this: I live here since 2020.
Say this: I have lived here since 2020.
Worked example
The parcel arrived on Monday. I have not opened it yet. The first sentence gives a finished time, on Monday, so it uses the past simple. The second sentence is about the situation now, so it uses the present perfect. Changing the form in the middle of a message is correct when the time frame changes.
Remember
Ask whether the time is finished. A finished time takes the past simple. A link to now, with no finished time, takes the present perfect.
INTRODUCING ENGLISHGRAMMAR PRO
Go from “I think it is right” to “I know why it is right.”
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Every lesson tells you why. First the rule, in plain English. Then the mistakes learners make most often. Then practice questions, each with the answer and the reason. That is what ends the doubt: the next time two sentences both sound right, you know which one is correct, and you know why.
Easy to follow, whatever your level. Short sentences, everyday examples and no grammar jargon. If you are still learning English, start with Module 01 and build up. If you already speak English well, even as a native speaker, the later modules on clauses, tone and editing will sharpen your writing.
15 minutes a day is enough. Most lessons take 10 to 15 minutes. Do one with your morning coffee or on the train home, and you can finish all 105 in about 15 weeks. There is no deadline. Go faster when you have time, and slower when you do not.
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A few things you will learn in Pro
Small rules that make a big difference. Each one is explained in a Pro lesson.
- Why “I look forward to hear from you” is wrong, and the small word that explains it Module 04, lesson 15
- One question that tells you when to write “I sent it” and when to write “I have sent it” Module 04, lesson 9
- How “I am boring in this class” turns a complaint into an insult against yourself Module 03, lesson 2
- Why “Please explain me the rule” is wrong, and the word it is missing Module 06, lesson 2
- “If I would have known…”: the mistake that slips into sentences about regret, and the simple fix Module 05, lesson 7
- Say or tell? One rule that tells you which one to use Module 08, lesson 5
- Why you take a photo but make a mistake, and why translating these verbs from your own language goes wrong Module 07, lesson 7
- Where to put only in a sentence, and how moving it one word changes what you mean Module 03, lesson 8
10 grammar modules. One clear path.
Start with the foundations, or go straight to the grammar you need. The modules are grouped into three stages.
Foundations
Modules 01–03
Make correct sentences, ask questions and use nouns, articles and describing words.
- 01Sentence Foundations: Build Accurate English
- 02Nouns, Articles and Pronouns
- 03Adjectives, Adverbs and Comparison
Intermediate
Modules 04–07
Choose the right tense, talk about possibility and use natural word partnerships.
- 04English Tenses and Verb Forms, Made Clear
- 05Modals, Conditions and Hypothetical Meaning
- 06Verb Patterns, Passives and Causatives
- 07Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs and Word Partnerships
Advanced
Modules 08–10
Connect ideas, report what people said, choose the right tone and edit your writing.
- 08Clauses, Questions and Reported Speech
- 09Build Clearer, More Natural English
- 10Advanced Grammar: Precision, Emphasis and Editing
105 step-by-step lessons with examples · 688 practice questions, each with the answer and the reason
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Sentence Foundations: Build Accurate English
- Words, phrases and the sentence core
- The verb be: am, is and are
- Be, have and do: main verbs and helpers
- Statements, negatives and agreement
- There is, there are and it is
- Yes/no questions and short answers
- Question words: who, what, where, when, why and how
- Question tags and polite indirect questions
- Instructions, requests and complete sentences
- Join ideas with and, but, or, so and because
- Foundation workshop: introduce, ask and explain
Nouns, Articles and Pronouns
- Singular and plural nouns
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- A, an and no article: introduce or generalize
- The: when your listener knows which one
- This, that, these and those
- Some, any, much, many and a lot of
- Few, little, each, every, all, both and neither
- Pronouns and possessives: I, me, my and mine
- Possessive ’s, reflexive pronouns and clear reference
- Noun-phrase workshop: describe without ambiguity
Adjectives, Adverbs and Comparison
- Adjectives: position and order
- Bored or boring? Adjectives with -ed and -ing
- Comparatives: bigger, more useful, better
- Superlatives and as ... as
- Adverbs: how something happens
- Always, usually, never: adverbs of frequency
- Too, enough, so and such
- Only, even and careful comparisons
- Description workshop: compare and evaluate
- Stage 1 checkpoint: check your foundations
English Tenses and Verb Forms, Made Clear
- Present simple: habits, facts and routines
- Present continuous: happening now and around now
- Present simple or present continuous?
- Past simple: finished actions
- Past simple and past continuous: tell a story
- Used to and would: past habits and states
- Present perfect: experience, change and news
- Irregular verbs: base form, past and past participle
- Past simple or present perfect?
- Present perfect simple or continuous?
- Past perfect: looking further back
- The future: will, going to and present continuous
- Future time clauses, future continuous and future perfect
- Modal verbs: how the forms work
- After another verb: to do, doing or do?
- Verb forms in if-sentences
- Put it together: a verb-choice workshop
Modals, Conditions and Hypothetical Meaning
- Ability, permission and requests: can, could and be able to
- Obligation and necessity: must, have to and don’t have to
- Advice and suggestions: should, ought to and had better
- Possibility and deduction: might, may, must and can’t
- Real conditions: zero and first conditionals
- Imagined situations: the second conditional
- Past and mixed conditions: third and mixed conditionals
- Wishes, preferences and alternatives to if
- Meaning workshop: rules, guesses and alternatives
Verb Patterns, Passives and Causatives
- What can follow a verb?
- Verbs with two objects: give, send, explain and suggest
- Patterns that change meaning: stop, remember, try
- The passive: is made, was built
- Passives in other tenses and with modals
- Reporting passives and advanced passive patterns
- Causatives: have, get, make, let and help
- Verb-structure workshop: explain a process
Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs and Word Partnerships
- Time: at, on and in
- For, since, during, by and until
- Place: at, on, in and where things are
- Movement: to, into, onto, across and through
- Prepositions after adjectives, nouns and verbs
- Phrasal verbs: meaning, objects and separation
- Make, do, have and take: common word partnerships
- Word partnerships and word families
- Partnership workshop: describe a plan naturally
- Stage 2 checkpoint: check your control
Clauses, Questions and Reported Speech
- Defining relative clauses: who, which, that, whose, where
- Non-defining relative clauses: extra information
- Participle clauses and reduced descriptions
- Noun clauses and embedded questions
- Reported statements: say, tell and backshift
- Reported questions, requests and instructions
- Reason, result and purpose: because, so, so that
- Contrast and time: although, despite, however, while
- Clause workshop: turn notes into a clear report
Build Clearer, More Natural English
- Build a clear sentence core
- Agreement and clear reference
- Articles, countability and quantity
- Prepositions and useful word partnerships
- Link ideas without losing the reader
- Punctuation that changes meaning: commas and apostrophes
- Add detail with relative and participle clauses
- Keep viewpoints clear when reporting speech
- Choose a tone that fits your reader
- Emphasis and parallel structure
- A practical editing workshop
Advanced Grammar: Precision, Emphasis and Editing
- Inversion and fronting for controlled emphasis
- Clefts, fronting and information flow
- Ellipsis and substitution without ambiguity
- The subjunctive and formal recommendations
- Hedging: say exactly how sure you are
- Nouns or verbs? Control density in formal writing
- Colons, semicolons and dashes
- Precision editing: agreement, parallel structure and register
- Mastery workshop: defend your grammar choices
- Stage 3 checkpoint: check your precision
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Your membership includes every exercise marked Pro, and new ones are added every week. Here are some of the latest.
- Level B2Causative Have and Get
- Level B1Verb Patterns with Remember
- Level A2Electronics Shopping Vocabulary
- Level B1Future Forms
- Level A1Articles A and An
- Level A2Going To Future
- Level C1Nominalisation in Academic Writing
- Level B2Passive Voice in Formal Writing
- Level A1Lost Property Notices
- Level B1Used To
- Level A1There Is and There Are
- Level C2Argumentation and Evaluation Review
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