When to Use Possessives

Asking Questions about Possession

Possessive Pronouns vs. Possessive Determiners

English Possessive Pronouns

Review

When to Use Possessive Pronouns instead of Determiners

English Possessive Determiners

What Are Possessive Pronouns?

Possessive pronouns show ownership and indicate that something belongs to someone particular. With their help, we can make a possessive phrase shorter.

Just like stunt doubles for actors in action movies, pronouns are stunt doubles for nouns. They're ready to take actions when nouns are not there!

Pronouns

Pronouns in English Grammar

Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns in English Grammar

Prepositions allow us to talk about the relationship between two words in a sentence. Here, we will discuss the different prepositions of time in English.

Prepositions of Time

Prepositions of Time in English Grammar

Prepositions allow us to talk about the relationship between two words in a sentence. Here, we will discuss the different prepositions of place in English.

Prepositions of Place

Prepositions of Place in English Grammar

As their names suggest, prepositions of direction and movement show a movement from one place to another or show a particular direction.

Prepositions of Direction and Movement

Prepositions of Direction and Movement in English Grammar

Prepositions of Manner which is also called Prepositions of Method express how a certain thing happened or is done.  In this part, we will discuss these.

Prepositions of Manner

Prepositions of Manner in English Grammar

Compound Prepositions or complex prepositions consist of two or more words which function as a single preposition. You'll learn about them here!

Compound Prepositions

Compound Prepositions in English Grammar

Some participles (i.e. verbs ending with '-ing', '-en' or '-ed') can sometimes act as a preposition. In this lesson, we will learn about the most common ones.

Participle Prepositions

Participle Prepositions in English Grammar

Subordinating conjunctions joins subordinate or dependent clauses to the main or independent clauses. To know all about these tricky grammatical words, click!

Subordinating Conjunctions

Subordinating Conjunctions in English Grammar

Coordinating conjunctions are words that their main job is joining two equal grammatical notions together. Here, we will discuss them more thoroughly.

Coordinating Conjunctions

Coordinating Conjunctions in English Grammar

Correlative conjunctions are pairs of words that join or correlate phrases or words with equal importance in a sentence.

Correlative Conjunctions

Correlative Conjunctions in English Grammar

Particles are words that have a grammatical function but do not fit into the main parts of speech. In order to learn about them, start studying them right here!

Particles

Particles in the English Grammar

What are prepositional phrases? Generally, as its name requires, prepositional phrases are phrases made of prepositions. To get to know them, read the article.

Prepositional Phrases

Prepositional Phrases in the English Grammar

If you hear a person yell 'at!,' you'd probably think they're crazy! Prepositions are words that are basically meaningless unless they are used in a phrase.

Prepositions and Conjunctions

It is possible to repeat a noun many times while talking. In this case, we are making a dull conversation with the person, so how pronouns can be helpful.

Pronouns in the English Grammar

A personal pronoun is a word that substitutes a name in a sentence to avoid its repetition. Each personal pronoun shows us information like person or number.

Personal Pronouns

Personal Pronouns in the English Grammar

A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun mostly used to point to something based on its distance from the speaker. In English, these pronouns have four forms.

Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns in English Grammar

An impersonal pronoun does not refer to a specific person or thing. These pronouns help us talk about a thing or person without mentioning what or who they are.

Impersonal Pronouns

Impersonal Pronouns in English Grammar

Indefinite pronouns refer to people or things without saying exactly who or what they are, but they give other information like entirety, amount, type, etc.

Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns in English Grammar

Dummy pronouns function grammatically as other pronouns, except they do not refer back to a person or thing like normal pronouns do.

Dummy Pronouns

Dummy Pronouns in English Grammar

Reflexive Pronouns are used to show that the subject and object of a sentence are exactly the same person or thing or there is a direct connection between them.

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns in English Grammar

There are five interrogative pronouns in English. Each one is used to ask a specific question about people or objects.

Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns in English Grammar

When two or more people are doing the same thing and receiving the consequences of that action at the same time we use reciprocal pronouns.

Reciprocal Pronouns

Reciprocal Pronouns in English Grammar

Relative pronouns are matchmakers of English grammar. They come in the beginning of relative clauses and join two clauses together. Ready to learn about them?

Relative Pronouns

Relative Pronouns in English Grammar

Although we don't use 'archaic' or old pronouns today, but if you're a fan of Shakespearean or historical older texts, you need to learn about them.

Archaic Pronouns

Archaic Pronouns in English Grammar

'Emphatic pronouns' are used to refer back to a noun or pronoun being mentioned earlier. So that they give more detailed information. Click here to read more.

Emphatic Pronouns

Emphatic Pronouns in the English Grammar

Grammatical Tense

You do things like brushing your teeth or eating lunch everyday. If you want to talk about actions or events that you do routinely you can use present simple.

Present Simple

Present Simple Tense in English Grammar

Past simple tense is one of the most exciting and important tenses in English verb tenses. We use it so often to talk about what happened before now.

Past Simple

Past Simple Tense in English Grammar

In this lesson, you will learn the easiest way to talk about the future in English, and that is by using the word ‘will’.

Future Simple

Future Simple Tense in English Grammar

The present continuous tense is a basic tense. It is usually one of the first tenses you start to learn when you first start studying English.

Present Continuous

Present Continuous Tense in English grammar

The past continuous tense is used quite often in English, so let’s understand exactly when to use it and how to use it. Are you ready? Let’s begin.

Past Continuous

Past Continuous Tense in English Grammar

The future continuous tense is used by native English speakers quite often and this is your chance to learn and understand this tense and to start to use it.

Future Continuous

Future Continuous Tense in English Grammar

The present perfect is the first of the advance tenses. By using present perfect tense, you will definitely be able to speak and write at a much higher level.

Present Perfect

Present Perfect Tense in English Grammar

The present perfect continuous tense is a special tense in terms of time. Why? Because it connects the present and the past. Let’s see how.

Present Perfect Continuous

Present Perfect Continuous Tense in English Grammar

This tense is an advance tense and we use it to talk about the past in a lot of interesting ways, and you’ll see what they are. So are you ready? Let’s start.

Past Perfect

Past Perfect Tense in English Grammar

This tense is an advanced tense, but it’s not hard to learn. This tense will allow you to talk about things that happened in the past in a more interesting way.

Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous Tense in English Grammar

The future perfect tense is an advanced tense; it will allow you to speak about the future in a really interesting way that may not exist in your own language.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect Tense in English Grammar

This is one of the most advanced tenses in the English language. So, congratulation for reaching this level. Let's start to learn this tense.

Future Perfect Continuous

Future Perfect Continuous Tense in English Grammar

Anything after now is the future, and in English, we have many ways and tenses to talk about the future. Some are more basic and some are more advanced.

Future with 'Going to'

Future with 'Going to' in English Grammar

There are times that we are narrating a story and we want to talk about past plans that did not happen. In this case, we use past with going to. Click to learn!

'Past with 'Going to

Past with 'Going to' in English Grammar

When you talk, the verbs should agree with the orders of events. That's why We will learn how and when to use the present tense in this lesson.

Talking about the Present

Talking about the Present in the English Grammar

What if we want to narrate something that happened in the past? in this case, we will need to know the past tense. Click here to learn more.

Talking about the Past

Talking about the Past in the English Grammar

Sometimes we need to talk about our plans,wished, arrangements that have not happened yet and are all related to the future.Click to learn how to talk about it.

Talking about the Future

Talking about the Future in the English Grammar

Do you want to know how to talk about an action or event that happened a few seconds, a few years or even hundreds and thousands of years in the past or future?

Tenses

Grammatical Tense in English

Modals

We have two main types of verbs which are called main verbs and modal verbs. Let us learn more about modal verbs.

Modals in the English Grammar

Semi-modals are the subcategory of modal verbs. So it is good to get the difference between modal verbs and semi-modal verbs to use them properly.

Semi-modals

Semi-modals in the English Grammar

Talent shows are a big thing now in our pop culture. If you want to participate in them, you should know how to talk about your abilities. Learn about it here!

Can and Could

Can and Could in English Grammar

May and Might are modal verbs. Some people think they are interchangeable, especially in speech, but is there really no differences between these two?

May and Might

May and Might in English Grammar

These two modals are often confusing for learners, because they are used in kind of similar occasions. But they're different. To know their differences, click!

Will and Would

Will and Would in English Grammar

'Shall' and 'Should' are like relatives, because 'Should' is the past tense of 'Shall', but they have different functions despite their similarities.

Shall and Should

Shall and Should in English Grammar

'Have to' and 'must' have the same meaning and are used to express obligations. However, they are used in different situations and are not interchangeable.

Must and Have to

Must and Have to in English Grammar

'Ought to' and 'Had Better' are used for giving advice and recommendations. These are used differently and can mean different things. Start learning!

Ought to and Had Better

Ought to and Had Better in English Grammar

'Dare' and 'need' have characteristics of both modal verbs and main verbs. Because of this, they are called semi-modals. In this lesson, we'll learn about them.

Dare and Need

Dare and Need in English Grammar

One of the functions of this expression is to talk about repeated actions in the past which we don't do in the present. To learn about more functions, click!

Used to

Used to in English Grammar

In the country of verbs, 'modals' is one of its states where its population are special kinds of verbs. They have their own rules and behave differently.

Modals and Semi-modals

Modals in English Grammar

Verbs

Understanding the passive voice is important. The passive voice is used often by native English speakers. It's used both in formal and informal situations.

Passive Voice

Passive Voice in English Grammar

Phrasal verbs are used very commonly in English, even more so in informal situations. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition or a particle.

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs in English Grammar

It's time to learn how to identify the verb phrase in a sentence. Learning about verb phrases is essential in speaking and writing without mistakes.

Verb Phrases

Verb Phrases in the English Grammar

'She smiled beautifully'. 'She started a rumor'. One of these sentences has an intransitive verb and one has a transitive one. Want to know the difference!

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in English Grammar

Based on how we conjugate verbs in the past simple and the past participle, they can be divided into two type: regular verbs and Irregular verbs.

Regular and Irregular Verbs

Regular and Irregular Verbs in English Grammar

'I'm loving it!' or 'I love it!' Do you want to know which one of these famous advertisement mottos are correct? You got to learn about state and action verbs!

Action vs. State Verbs

Action vs. State Verbs in English Grammar

Auxiliary verbs help the main verb to express tense or voice or help make questions and negative sentences. That's why they're also called 'helping verbs'.

Auxiliary Verbs

Auxiliary Verbs in English Grammar

Linking verbs are connectors of the language. They do not show any action. Their only job is to link a subject with a subject complement. Want to know how?

Linking Verbs

Linking Verbs in English Grammar

Have you ever repeated a word too much that made you think How boring it got! Here is the thing. You can use dummy verbs instead of repeated verbs. Click here.

Dummy Verbs

Dummy Verbs in English Grammar

A participle is a word that is formed from a verb and is used to make compound verb forms. We have 2 kinds of participles: past and present participle.

Participles

Participles in English Grammar

'Verb' originally meant 'word' in archaic languages. In the world of grammar, verbs are the second most populated country after nouns. Start your journey!