Basic Grammar and Writing for Adult English Learners |
See grammar chart of simple present tense forms of BE with subject pronouns Select the correct form of BE #1 (affirmative) #2 (negative) #3 (some negative and some questions) Type the correct form of BE #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 |
VERBS IN THE PRESENT TENSE |
WRITING BASICS |
Identify nouns and verbs |
Use proper punctuation |
Use proper capitalization |
ARTICLES |
Study a and an |
Use a, an, the, or nothing #1 |
PARTS OF SPEECH |
CONJUNCTIONS |
forgot |
said |
NOUNS |
went |
PRONOUNS |
ADJECTIVES |
Watch and listen to lessons on prepositions of time and location, then practice |
PREPOSITIONS |
Use prepositions of location to say where the mouse is hiding |
Study how to make yes/no questions in the past tense using did |
Study how to make yes/no questions in the past tense with BE |
Study how to make yes/no questions with BE |
MAKING QUESTIONS |
ANIMATED LESSONS! |
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. , ! ? |
animal (sing.) |
animals (pl.) |
she |
him |
I |
me |
the queen |
run (v.) |
happy (adj.) |
flower (n.) |
he (pron.) |
and (conj.) |
slowly (adv.) |
under (prep.) |
they |
It will ring at 5:30. |
It's on the table. |
coffee or tea? |
you and me |
small but expensive |
What? |
Identify nouns in sentences |
Quiz yourself on irregular forms |
"THERE IS" AND "THERE ARE" |
Practice the 3rd person singular rule with many verbs #1 #2 (affirmative) #3 #4 #5 (some negative) #6 #7 (some questions) |
took |
Identify adjectives and adverbs |
his remote control |
bought |
us |
SENTENCE STRUCTURE |
Simple present tense |
Present continuous tense |
Simple past tense |
Future tense with will |
Future tense with going to |
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period comma exclamation question mark mark |
her ring |
an elephant |
a car |
Examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in different tenses |
VERBS IN THE PAST TENSE |
Study the rules for spelling plural nouns |
Learn all 8 parts of speech |
Oh! (interj.) |
Identify the simple subject and predicate in sentences |
Learn contractions with a matching game |
More practice with both |
Practice commas |
Make nouns possessive |
Play a video game with prepositions |
was were |
Learn when to use the simple present tense and when to use the present continuous tense |
I am they are |
he likes we like they don't like |
We are going now. |
Learn how to form present continuous verbs |
Use the correct word order for questions #1 |
I like pizza. I am eating some now. |