Basics. Present Tenses for Future Events
Can you confidently use present verbs to describe tomorrow's plans? Test your advanced grammar skills by mastering scheduled events, fixed personal arrangements, and future time clauses across high-stakes scenarios.
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Condition Clauses: If, Unless, and Provided That
Do you know when a strict rule requires provided that or when to use unless instead of if not? Master the logic of condition clauses by navigating quirky scenarios with time travelers, secret agents, and eccentric professors. Test your grasp of if, unless, and provided that across 12 interactive questions.
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Contrast Clauses: Although, However, and Though
Do you know when to use a semicolon before however, or when to drop though at the end of a sentence? Master the tricky punctuation and placement of contrast clauses by navigating savage restaurant reviews, passive-aggressive roommate notes, and clumsy burglars.
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Adverb Clauses of Reason: Because, Since, and As
Why did the time traveler arrive three centuries late? Master explaining why things happen by testing your knowledge of adverb clauses of reason, distinguishing because vs. because of, applying correct punctuation rules, and identifying reason vs. time contexts.
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Adverb Clauses of Time: When, Before, After, Until
When do you stop whisking? Until your arm goes numb, obviously. Master the timing of events by choosing the right time conjunctions, applying correct verb tenses in future time clauses, and sequencing past events properly.
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Slavic Speakers' Top Errors: Articles, Prepositions, and Pronouns
Do you "depend on" or "depend from" the weather forecast? Master some of the trickiest parts of English by practicing dependent prepositions, articles for professions and generalisations, and pronouns for inanimate objects.
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Articles Bootcamp for Romance Language Speakers: a, the, and Zero Article
Do you say "I am teacher" or "I am a teacher"? Master these tricky rules by testing your knowledge on professions, abstract nouns, generalizations, and specific vs. general contexts.
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Basics. Advanced Conditionals And "wish".
Test your understanding of advanced conditionals and the use of wish for expressing unreal, hypothetical, or regretted situations. Challenge your skills with mixed conditionals and nuanced wish structures.
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Basics. Passive Voice.
The Passive Voice emphasizes the action or receiver, using the verb to be and the past participle of the main verb. It can be formed in different tenses, including continuous and perfect. Negative sentences add not after the verb to be, while questions invert the subject and the verb to be.
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Collocations (Upper Intermediate, B2), Part 1.
Collocations are word pairs frequently used together, forming natural-sounding expressions. They enhance fluency, making language learners sound more authentic. Examples for upper-intermediate learners include "big deal," signifying something important, "last-minute," denoting actions just before a deadline, and "professional attitude," referring to appropriate workplace behavior. Learning these collocations improves communication precision and fluency.
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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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Comparatives and Superlatives
Very often when we compare different objects or events. As we tend to be as colorful as possible, using only comparative or superlative form of adjectives is not always enough.
Because of this, we begin to add adverbs or special constructions such as far, by far, much, a lot, a little etc.
The knowledge of the rules how to use the intensifiers of comparison usually indicates an advanced student.
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.
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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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Fluency Boost: Opinions, Academic Discourse & Adverb+Adjective Collocations
Test your Fluency Boost: Opinions, Academic Discourse & Adverb+Adjective Collocations skills with 24 questions at medium level.
High-Frequency Grammar Fixes for India Learners: Tense, Articles, and Agreement
Have you ever caught yourself saying "I am knowing" instead of "I know," or asking for "an advice"? Polish your everyday English by testing yourself on stative verbs, tricky subject-verb agreement, uncountable nouns, and past tense rules.
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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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Basics. Articles in Fixed Expressions
Ever wonder why we say someone is in a hurry but did something completely by mistake? Master the tricky exceptions of English grammar by practicing indefinite article phrases, definite article idioms, and zero-article expressions.
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Basics. Had Better vs. Would Rather: Advanced Patterns
Do you know why we say "I would rather you didn't" when talking about the present? Master the tricky grammar behind expressing strong warnings and preferences by practicing negative "had better" statements, parallel structures, and past subjunctive forms across 15 questions.
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Basics. Conditional Inversion: Had, Were, and Should
Ready to drop the if and sound like a highly advanced English speaker? Test your mastery of formal grammar by practicing third conditional inversion with had, second conditional inversion with were, and first conditional inversion with should.
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Basics. Inversion After Negative Adverbs
Want to add a dramatic, advanced flair to your English sentences? Master the rules of grammatical inversion by practicing with negative adverbs like not only, under no circumstances, little, hardly, and no sooner.
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Basics. Gerunds After It's No Use and There's No Point In
Why do we say it's no use trying instead of it's no use to try? Master the tricky gerund rules for it's no use and there's no point in while navigating fun, advanced scenarios from zombie encounters to cursed office printers.
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Basics. Mastering Mixed Conditionals and Inversions
What happens when a past mistake alters your present reality, or a permanent trait changes a past outcome? Test your advanced grammar skills on past actions with present results, present states with past consequences, and formal conditional inversions.
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Basics. Needn't Have vs. Didn't Need To
Did you waste your time doing something unnecessary, or did you realize it was unnecessary and skip it entirely? Test your grasp of past modals by choosing between needn't have done for wasted efforts and didn't need to do for avoided actions.
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Basics. Advanced Participle Clauses: -ing and -ed
Ever wondered how to fix a "dangling participle" before it ruins your writing? Master advanced sentence structures by practicing -ing and -ed participle clauses, identifying dangling modifiers, and using passive perfect participles to connect ideas seamlessly.
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Basics. Reduced Relative Clauses: Participles and Infinitives
Why write "the alien who was stranded" when you can simply say "the alien stranded"? Master concise writing by testing your knowledge of active and passive participle phrases, stative verb reductions, and infinitive relative clauses across 10 challenging questions.
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Basics. Fronted Prepositions in Relative Clauses
Do you know when to use "the manager to whom I spoke" instead of "the manager who I spoke to"? Master the strict formal register by practicing fronted prepositions, relative pronouns like whom and which, and complex prepositional phrases.
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Basics. Reporting with Passives
Do you know the difference between "it is said that he escaped" and "he is said to have escaped"? Master advanced English sentence construction by practicing impersonal passive structures, perfect infinitives, and continuous infinitives alongside common reporting verbs.
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Basics. Reported Speech: Tense Choice and Backshifting
Did he say he is leaving or was leaving? Master the nuances of reporting what others say by practicing tense backshifting, identifying exceptions for general truths and present reporting verbs, and fixing indirect question word order.
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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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Its, Fewer, and Affect: Native Speaker Mistakes
Are you making the same embarrassing grammar mistakes that native English speakers make every day? Master the rules behind the most commonly confused word pairs by practicing its vs. it's, fewer vs. less, and affect vs. effect.
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Would Rather vs. Prefer: Expressing Preferences
Is it I'd rather stay or I'd rather staying? And why does I'd rather you drove use the past tense for a present wish? Test yourself on would rather + base verb, prefer + gerund vs. infinitive, and would rather + someone else + past tense across 13 questions.
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Participle vs Gerund
Complex participles and gerunds, their perfect, passive or perfect-passive forms are interesting. The accurate understanding and usage of such participial nad gerund constructions especially after the verb to be and different prepositions; before nouns; and also in set expressions and constructions shows... shows...
Actually, go and try to figure it out yourself.
Polite Requests: Could You vs. Would You Mind
Do you know when to use passing instead of pass when asking someone for a favor? Master the grammar of everyday favors by practicing could you + base verb, would you mind + gerund, and negative polite requests across 15 interactive questions.
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Sequence of Tenses in Indirect Speech
Understanding the principle of the sequence of tenses in direct and indirect speech must not be a great challenge!
However, the devil is in the details, exceptions and rules variations, not to mention indirect sentences with modal verbs and the usage of adverbs of time and place, which in turn must be changed in a special way.
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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Is your English level B2/Upper Intermediate? Test your English CEFR Level to figure out!
This English grammar quiz is designed to check if an English learner is at B2/Upper Intermediate CEFR level.
This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary on an upper-intermediate level, as per the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) guidelines. It will cover a wide range of topics such as verb tenses, relative clauses, modal verbs, and adjective and adverb clauses, as well as testing your ability to understand and use complex grammar structures.
After taking the quiz, learners would be able to see where they stand in terms of their English proficiency and if they are ready to move to the next level. Passing the challenge indicates the control of English grammar enough to move to the next level.
Forming Questions: Indirect, Tag, and Subject Forms
Do you know why we ask "Who ate the cake?" instead of "Who did eat the cake?" Master the tricky rules of English interrogatives by testing yourself on subject questions, polite indirect questions, tag questions, and dangling prepositions.
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Question Forms: Indirect, Subject, Object, and Tags
Do you know why we say "Who stole the cheese?" instead of "Who did steal the cheese?" Test your grammar skills by practicing subject vs. object questions, polite indirect questions, tricky question tags, and negative questions across 13 engaging scenarios.
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Transitive vs. Intransitive: High-Impact Verbs
Master transitive vs. intransitive verbs and avoid common errors like discuss about or enter into. Stop adding unnecessary prepositions with high-impact verbs like discuss, reach, enter, and contact!
Core Verb and Preposition Combinations
Master fixed collocations like depend on, listen to, and agree with that must be memorized. Avoid common errors like "depend of" or "listen the music" with 10 medium level questions.
EU Learners' Tricky Set (German and French): Word Order, Prepositions, and False Friends
Did you know that translating literally from your native language can completely change your meaning in English? Master these tricky areas by practicing verb-object word order, dependent prepositions, and common false friends like actual vs. current.
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Word Order and Extra Words Errors for Turkish Speakers
Do you say discuss the plan or discuss about the plan? Test your ability to spot and remove unnecessary words by mastering transitive verbs without prepositions, avoiding double subjects, and dropping extra pronouns in relative clauses across 14 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. Practice meeting collocations, task management phrases, deadline expressions, and performance review language across 18 varied questions.
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