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Present Simple
The grammar you use when describing your miserable, unchanging life.
Present Continuous
For when you're doing something right bloody now, or pretending to be busy.
Present Perfect
The tense that confuses everyone and makes grown adults cry.
Present Perfect Continuous
For when you've been doing something for ages and you're bloody tired of it.
Past Simple
For talking about things that happened and are now dead and buried.
Past Continuous
For actions that were happening when life got in the way.
Past Perfect
For when something happened before something else happened. Confusing? Absolutely.
Past Perfect Continuous
The most unnecessarily complicated tense in the English language.
Future Simple
For making promises you probably won't keep and predictions that'll go tits up.
Future Continuous
For things you'll be doing at specific times in the future (if you remember).
Future Perfect
For showing off that you understand time sequences in the future.
Future Perfect Continuous
The final boss of English tenses. Good luck with this one, mate.
Zero Conditional
For stating obvious facts and universal truths that even a muppet knows.
First Conditional
For making plans that will probably go tits up anyway.
Second Conditional
For dreaming about impossible things and hypothetical scenarios.
Third Conditional
For regretting past decisions and playing the "what if" game.
Mixed Conditionals
The grammar equivalent of a Frankenstein monster - bits from different conditionals.
At, In, On (Time)
The holy trinity of time prepositions that confuse everyone.
At, In, On (Place)
Where the bloody hell are you? These prepositions will tell you.
Position Prepositions
Next to, under, between, behind - like GPS for your grammar!
Movement Prepositions
Along, across, over, through - get your arse moving with these directional words!
On Time vs In Time
The preposition pairs that make grown adults weep with confusion!
Verb + Preposition
The unholy marriages that make English bloody confusing!
Adjective + Preposition
When adjectives get clingy and need their preposition partners!
During, For, While
The time trio that makes everyone's brain hurt!
For, Since, From
Time prepositions that make your head spin faster than a washing machine!
Noun + Preposition
When nouns get needy and demand their preposition partners!
Defining Relative Clauses
The grammar that tells you exactly which bloody thing we're talking about!
Defining vs Non-Defining Relative Clauses
The difference between essential info and just showing off!
Whatever, Whenever, Wherever
The "I don't give a toss" words of English grammar!
Advanced Relative Clauses
The grammar equivalent of rocket science - good bloody luck!
Verbs + To/Infinitive/Ing
The verb patterns that make English learners want to give up!
Expressing Purpose (To/For)
Why the hell are you doing that? These words will tell you!
Infinitives, Gerunds & Verb Patterns
The grammar nightmare that haunts English teachers' dreams!
Do, To Do, Doing
The verb forms that make grown adults weep with confusion!
Advanced Verb Patterns
The final boss of verb patterns - abandon hope, all ye who enter!
Would Rather vs Would Prefer
Polite ways to say "I'd rather not, thanks very much!"
Reporting Verbs
Fancy ways to say "he said" without sounding like a broken record!
Passive Voice
When you want to avoid blame or sound all official and boring!
Question Tags
Those little questions at the end that make you sound properly British, innit?
Make and Do Collocations
The most confusing verb pair in English - even natives get this wrong!
Enough and Too
The Goldilocks words - one's just right, the other's way too much!
So and Such
Two ways to say "bloody hell, that's extreme!" with proper grammar!
Wishes and Regrets
For when life goes tits up and you want to change the past!
Articles: A and An
The little words that make the difference between sounding smart and stupid!
Articles: The
The most overused word in English - when to use it and when to sod off!
Phrasal Verbs
The nightmare combinations that make English learners want to give up!
Going To
Plans you've actually thought about and intentions that aren't just wishful thinking!
As...As Comparisons
Comparing things like a proper human without being a complete tosser about it!
Coordinating Conjunctions
The FANBOYS - your new best mates for connecting ideas without sounding like a robot!
Subordinating Conjunctions
The boss and minion relationship - one clause rules, the other follows orders!
Linking Words
The sophisticated way to connect your thoughts without sounding like a caveman!
Quantity
How much vs how many - the eternal struggle that confuses everyone!
Personal Pronouns
The little words that replace big names and save you from sounding like a broken record!
Reflexive Pronouns
When you do things to yourself - grammatically speaking, you dirty-minded sod!
Get and Its Many Meanings
The Swiss Army knife of English verbs - more meanings than a politician has promises!
Comparative Adjectives
Bigger, better, stronger - the art of comparison without sounding like a caveman!