English grammar lessons with examples and exercises

• Active and passive voiceChange any sentence from active to passive, with a chart for each tense.
• Direct and indirect speechReport what someone said, with the tense, pronoun and time-word changes.
• Modal verbsWhat can, could, may, might, must, should and the others really mean.
• Future perfect continuous tenseSay how long something will have been happening by a future point.
• ClausesIndependent and dependent clauses, and the three types of dependent clause.
• InterjectionsWords like wow and oops: meaning, examples and how to punctuate them.
• Action verbsPhysical and mental action verbs, and how they differ from state verbs.
• Possessive nounsWhen to write 's or s', including plurals, names and joint ownership.
• Parts of a sentenceSubject, predicate, object, complement and adverbial, with five patterns.
• Adjective clausesDescribe a noun with who, which or that, and get the commas right.

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