Sharpen Your English Grammar
Whether you're preparing for a language exam, polishing your writing, or simply curious about the finer points of English grammar — you're in the right place. Our CEFR-based grammar test adapts each time you take it, giving you a fresh set of questions and targeted feedback on where you shine and where you can grow.
Prefer to focus on specific topics? Browse our practice challenges, each one built around a grammar topic and tagged by category and difficulty. Every question comes with a clear explanation — so you don't just find out what's right, you understand why.
Looking for something specific? Jump straight to verb tenses, IELTS preparation, or explore the tag tree below to find exactly the topic you need.
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The English Grammar tree breaks topics down by grammatical category — from determiners to verb tenses and everything in between. Our taxonomy overview explains how we organized it all. The categories are not set in stone— we continue refining them to be as useful as possible.
CEFR stands for the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages — a widely-used standard for benchmarking language ability from beginner (A1) to mastery (C2).
Difficulty Levels reflect the content authors' judgment of how challenging each question is, so you can start easy and work your way up.
What's New
February 28, 2026 — New Challenges:
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Fluency Boost: Opinions, Academic Discourse & Adverb+Adjective Collocations Is something highly controversial or very controversial? Take your English to C1 level with opinion-giving phrases, academic discourse collocations, and powerful adverb + adjective combinations like painfully obvious and fiercely competitive across 24 questions.
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Life Admin Collocations: Money, Shopping, Tech & Daily Errands Do you shop around for deals or shop for deals? Master essential collocations for money management, shopping and returns, tech troubleshooting, and daily errands through 20 varied questions.
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Health and Lifestyle Collocations: Fitness, Sleep, Diet, and Habits Do you maintain a balanced diet or keep one? Master essential fitness collocations, sleep expressions, diet terminology, illness phrases, and habit-changing language through 24 varied exercises.
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Feelings and Mindset Collocations: Expressing Emotions and Confidence Do you know why we say "boost confidence" but "build self-esteem"? Master essential collocations for expressing emotions, managing stress and anxiety, and building confidence through 24 varied questions.
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Say vs. Tell, Advice, and Promises: Communication Collocations Do you tell someone news or say news to them? Master essential communication collocations including say vs. tell distinctions, advice patterns, promise expressions, and argument vocabulary through 23 interactive questions.
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Work & Productivity Collocations: Tasks, Meetings, Deadlines & Performance Do you "meet a deadline" or "reach a deadline"? Master the precise word partnerships that make professional English sound natural — from meeting collocations and task management phrases to deadline expressions and performance review language across 18 questions.
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Make, Do, and More: Food & Home Collocations Do you make the dishes or do the dishes — and why does it matter? Test yourself on make vs. do for chores, cooking verb collocations, and eating-out phrases like booking tables and leaving tips across 25 questions.
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Travel Collocations: Transport, Airport, Directions & Hotels Would you catch a flight or take a flight — and do you know when both are correct? Test yourself on transport verbs, airport collocations, direction phrases, and hotel vocabulary across 24 questions.
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School and Learning Collocations: Study Habits, Exams, and Academic Skills Do you take notes or make notes during lectures? Master essential academic collocations including study habits, exam preparation, skill development, and classroom activities through 22 varied practice questions.
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Core Verb Collocations: Make, Do, Take, Have, Break, Keep, Catch, Pay Do you know why we make breakfast but do homework, or take a break but have a rest? Master essential collocations with make/do, take/have, break/keep, and catch/pay through 17 varied exercises covering morning routines, student life, and business meetings.
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Would Rather vs. Prefer: Expressing Preferences "I'd rather stay home" or "I prefer staying home"? Both express a preference, but each follows different grammar rules. Master would rather + base verb, the negative form, prefer + gerund + to, and the tricky pattern where I'd rather you drove more slowly uses past tense for a present wish.
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Must, Have to, Need to, and Don't Have to If something isn't necessary, do you say "don't have to" or "mustn't"? Choose wrong and you'll ban something instead of making it optional! Test yourself on must vs. have to, need to, and don't have to across 15 real-life scenarios from school rules to flatmate chores.
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I Wish and If Only: Present Regrets and Complaints Stuck in a boring lecture or dealing with a messy roommate? Learn how to express present regrets and annoyances using wish + past simple, if only + could, and wish + would for complaints — through 15 scenarios featuring daydreamers, frustrated renters, and one very ambitious dog.
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Zero, First, Second, and Third Conditionals Would you know what to say if you won the lottery, or how to express regret over a hilariously botched bank robbery? Master the rules for the zero, first, second, and third conditionals across 13 engaging hypothetical scenarios.
February 21, 2026 — New Challenges:
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Core Verb and Preposition Combinations Do you depend of or depend on? Fixed verb–preposition pairs like insist on, listen to, and apologize for trip up even advanced learners. Build accuracy with these essential collocations and stop translating from your native language.
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Subjunctive and Conditional Adventures Wishes, hypotheticals, and "what if" scenarios — master the subjunctive mood and conditional sentences through creative stories involving time travel, wizards, and raccoons. Perfect for leveling up from basic to confident B1 grammar.
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Quantifiers: Much, Many, and a Lot of Struggling to choose between much, many, and a lot of? This easy-level challenge helps you nail the difference between countable and uncountable nouns so you stop second-guessing yourself in everyday conversations and writing.
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Transitive vs. Intransitive: High-Impact Verbs Saying discuss about or enter into? These sneaky errors come from translating directly from your native language. Master high-impact transitive and intransitive verbs like lay/lie, raise/rise, and discuss/contact to sound natural and confident.
February 14, 2026 — New Challenges:
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Participle Clauses Want to write tighter, more elegant sentences? Participle clauses let you merge two ideas into one — using -ing for simultaneous actions and having + past participle for completed ones. Essential for B1+ writing.
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Gerund vs. Participle: -ing Word Functions Every -ing word looks the same, but swimming can be a noun, an adjective, or part of a verb. Learn to tell gerunds from participles so you can parse and build sentences with confidence.
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Determiners: Some, Any, Few, and Little Is it a few or few? Some or any? These small words dramatically change your meaning. Master the subtle differences so you say exactly what you intend — whether you're being positive, negative, or making an offer.
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Articles — A, An, The & Zero Article Do you know why we say "an hour" but "a university"? Our newest challenge walks you through a/an sound rules, the vs. zero article, and first vs. second mention across 14 real-world scenarios. Give it a try!
February 8, 2026 — New Challenges:
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Verb + Object + Infinitive Patterns "I want you to try" or "She made him laugh" — some verbs need to, others don't. Learn the verb + object + infinitive pattern with verbs like ask, tell, allow, let, and make to build accurate complex sentences.
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Stop, Remember, and Try — Gerund or Infinitive? "I stopped smoking" vs. "I stopped to smoke" — completely different meanings! Master how stop, remember, and try change their meaning depending on whether a gerund or infinitive follows.
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Gerund vs. Infinitive with Common Verbs Do you enjoy to read or enjoy reading? Picking the wrong form after verbs like avoid, suggest, decide, and want is one of the most common English mistakes. Fix it once and for all.
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Gerund vs. Infinitive after Adjectives "Happy to help" or "tired of waiting"? The rules for choosing gerunds and infinitives after adjectives aren't random — learn the patterns so expressions like worth trying and afraid of failing come naturally.
January 31, 2026 — New Challenges:
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Advanced Conditionals and "Wish" Ready to go beyond basic if-clauses? Tackle mixed conditionals, nuanced wish structures, and regret patterns that will make your English sound polished and precise in both writing and conversation.
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Conditionals and "Wish" "If I would know..." — sound familiar? Learn to use conditionals and wish correctly so you can talk about hypothetical situations, regrets, and desires without the classic mistakes that trip up most learners.