Learn and practise English Grammar online with Lingolia

Introduction

Grammar is usually the unpleasant part of language learning, because the rules in a foreign language can be completely different than in your native language.

On Lingolía, we explain all the important information in a brief and simple way. We also provide exercises, so you can test and solidify the things you’ve just learned. In this way, we hope to keep some of the horror of grammar at bay.

Tenses

There are many different tenses in English grammar, but don’t worry — Lingolia is here to help! With illustrated examples, we explain here how to use and construct the different tenses correctly.

Comparison of Tenses

With so many different tenses in English grammar, it can be difficult to know which tense to use. Our comparisons help explain the most important differences so you feel confident using English tenses in every situation.

Verbs

Here you can find information about helping verbs, modal verbs, the infinitive and gerund, participles, phrasal verbs, the imperative, passive, and subjunctive.

Nouns

Nouns are naming words; they refer to animals, ideas, people, places and objects. English nouns can be plural or singular, countable or uncountable and can be many different types. We form plural nouns by adding -s, however there are many irregular plural forms.

Articles

Article are words that precede nouns. In English grammar, articles can be definite (the) or indefinite (a/an). There are some instances where we use no article.

Pronouns & Determiners

Pronouns are words that replace nouns. Determiners are words that introduce nouns. Pronouns in English grammar can be personal, possessive, reflexive, relative, demonstrative or indefinite.

Adjectives

Adjectives are describing words (e.g. happy, colourful, interesting); they describe or modify nouns. Adjectives in English grammar also have comparative and superlative forms.

Adverbs

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs to give us more information about how, when, where, often or to what degree.

Prepositions

Prepositions are tricky, because they can’t be translated 1:1. In order to make this confusing topic a bit easier to understand, we’ve put together a list of common prepositions (including examples and translations).

Sentence Structure

As well as general tips on word order in declarative sentences, negation, and questions, you can also find information on question tags, short answers, conjunctions, indirect questions, participle clauses, if-clauses, relative clauses, and indirect speech here.

Conditionals

Learn all about if-clauses in English with Lingolia. We cover every type of conditional: zero, first, second and third, and we even have sections dedicated to more advanced topics like mixed conditionals and if-clauses that don’t contain if.