Basics. Advanced Future Forms and Future in the Past
Do you know how to express an unfulfilled plan from the past or calculate exact durations leading up to a future deadline? Test your advanced grammar skills by mastering the future perfect continuous, future in the past, and nuanced expectation phrases like bound to and on the verge of.
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Basics. Implied Conditionals: But For, Without, and Otherwise
Can you spot a hypothetical situation when the word "if" is nowhere to be found? Navigate 10 tricky scenarios by identifying implied conditionals hidden within phrases like but for, otherwise, given, and implied subjects.
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Basics. Advanced Inverted Conditionals: Should, Were, and Had
Do you know how to drop the "if" to make your English sound more formal and dramatic? Master the art of inversion by testing your knowledge of first conditionals with should, second conditionals with were, third conditionals with had, and complex mixed conditionals.
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Basics. Marginal Modals: Dare, Need, and Ought To
Are you confused about when to use "needn't have done" instead of "didn't need to do"? Master the trickiest rules of English verbs by testing yourself on marginal modals, past regrets with ought to, and the modal forms of dare and need.
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Basics. Complex Past Modals: Continuous and Passive Forms
Do you know the difference between an action that shouldn't have been done and one that needn't have been done? Put your advanced grammar skills to the test with continuous deductions, passive obligations, and unnecessary past actions.
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Basics. Reporting with Modals
Do you know how to accurately report tricky statements like "What shall I do?" or "You mustn't enter"? Shifting modal verbs into reported speech requires much more than just a simple tense backshift. Test your advanced grammar skills on reporting shall for advice, must for prohibitions and obligations, and past modal deductions like must have and might have.
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Basics. The Were-Subjunctive in Conditionals
Do you know when to use "Were I to go" instead of "If I was going"? Master the art of formal hypotheticals by testing yourself on subject-verb inversion, the "were to" future conditional, and tricky mixed conditionals.
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Basics: Can and Could - Ability and Permission
Test your Basics: Can and Could - Ability and Permission skills with 12 questions at easy level.
Basics: May and Might - Expressing Possibility
Are you completely sure, or is it just a possibility? Learn how to accurately express uncertainty by mastering affirmative and negative possibility, future predictions, and the modal + base verb rule.
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Must vs. Have To: Expressing Obligation
Test your Basics: Must and Have To - Obligation skills with 12 questions at easy level.
Mustn't vs. Don't Have To
Test your Basics: Mustn't vs. Don't Have To skills with 10 questions at medium level.
Basics: Past Forms of the Verb "To Be": Was vs. Were
Test your Verb "To Be": Past Forms (was/were) skills with 15 questions at easy level.
Basics: Present Forms of the Verb "To Be"
Test your Verb "To Be": Present Forms (am/is/are) skills with 15 questions at easy level.
Giving Advice with Should
Test your Basics: Should - Advice skills with 12 questions at medium level.
Basics: Used To - Past Habits and States
Test your Basics: Used To - Past Habits and States skills with 15 questions at easy level.
Basics: Will vs. Going To for the Future
Test your Basics: Will vs. Going To skills with 12 questions at easy level.
Basics: Will for Decisions, Promises, and Offers
Do you know exactly when to use will instead of going to? Master the basics of the future tense by practicing how to express spontaneous decisions, promises, and offers of help.
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Would Like vs. Would Rather
Test your Basics: Would Like and Would Rather skills with 10 questions at medium level.
Basics. Conditionals And "wish".
Test your understanding of conditionals and the use of wish for expressing unreal or desired situations. Practice identifying the correct forms and meanings in context.
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Basics. "To be" in Present Tense.
In English, the verb to be is conjugated differently based on the subject of the sentence. This grammar quiz focuses on the conjugation of the verb "to be" with different subject pronouns and nouns, both singular and plural, in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences. Participants will need to use the correct form of the verb "to be" based on the subject in each sentence to demonstrate their understanding of this grammar concept.
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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. Modal verbs to convey necessity, possibility, permission, or ability.
Modal verbs are auxiliary verbs that convey necessity, possibility, permission, or ability. They include "might," "may," "can," "could," "must," "should," and "have to." Modals have various uses, such as expressing possibility, knowing how to do something, asking for help, or indicating necessity. To negate a sentence with a modal verb, simply add "not" after the modal verb.
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Basics. Modal verbs for expressing preferences, requests, and imperatives in speech.
Modals and imperatives can express preferences, requests, and suggestions. "Would you like...?" can replace "Do you want?" or invite someone. "I'd like..." is a polite way to say "I want." "I'd rather..." expresses preferences. Positive imperatives give orders, make polite requests, or offer encouragement. Negative imperatives forbid actions or emphasize points. "Let's..." is used for asking people to do things or suggesting not to do something.
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Do vs. Make: School and Studying Collocations
Are you "making" your homework or "doing" your homework? Master the difference between these tricky verbs with everyday school vocabulary, including doing assignments, making mistakes, making progress, and doing an exam.
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Conditional Subjunctive
Subjunctive mood is represented by three main forms in contemporary English: present subjunctive, past subjunctive, past perfect subjunctive. Other forms such as present continuous subjunctive and past continuous subjunctive are used very rarely.
These subordinate clauses may be divided into 4 types according to the realness of the condition and the time.
Apart from the aforementioned, advanced students are particularly interested in the accurate usage of such verbs as should, would, could, might, wish after if and in the case when it is omitted in the mixed type conditionals.
All this is simple and clear for you, and you would easily prove it passing a test on the subject, wouldn't you?
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.
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Basics. Advanced Question Tags and Echo Questions
Would you know exactly how to respond if your friend announced they were bringing fifteen tarantulas to a dinner party? Master conversational English by practicing echo questions for surprise, tags for indefinite pronouns, and exceptions like "I am" and "Let's".
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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. The Causative: Have Something Done
Did you cut your own hair, or did you have it cut? Master the art of delegating tasks by practicing the causative structure, focusing on the have/get something done pattern across various verb tenses.
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Basics. Verb Patterns with I'd Rather and It's Time
Did you know that expressing an urgent wish about the present sometimes requires the past tense? Master these tricky rules by practicing I'd rather + base verb, I'd rather + subject + past tense, and the differences between it's time + infinitive and it's high time + past tense.
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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. 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. Past Modals of Deduction
Who ate the last slice of pizza, and how did the dog get so muddy? Put on your detective hat and test your ability to use past modals of deduction, choosing between logical certainties, possibilities, and impossibilities.
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Basics. Present Modals of Deduction: Must, Can't, and Might
Are you 100% sure, or just making a logical guess? Test your ability to solve everyday mysteries using present modals of deduction, including must for certainty, can't for impossibility, and might/could for possibility.
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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. Negative Questions: Surprise, Invitations, and Opinions
Did you know that negative questions are rarely used just to ask for facts? Test your ability to use them correctly for expressing surprise, confirming information, and making polite invitations across 10 interactive questions.
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Basics. Passive Voice with Modal Verbs
Do you know how to state a strict rule without saying exactly who must follow it? Test your ability to construct the passive voice with modal verbs, form negative rules like must not be touched, and express possibilities with might be seen.
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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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Basics. Third Conditional: Unreal Past Situations
If you had known the secret to the third conditional, would you have spoken English more confidently? Test yourself on forming unreal past situations, using the past perfect correctly in the if-clause, and choosing the right modal perfect results.
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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.
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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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Offers and Orders: Would You Like and I'll Have
Do you know the difference between asking someone "Do you like coffee?" and "Would you like some coffee?" Test your polite conversation skills by mastering would you like + noun, would you like to + verb, and the correct use of I'll have for placing orders.
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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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Special Constructions
In English there are some verb constructions having special indirect meaning, such as used to, would, get used to, get doing, be to do, happen to do, be going to do something, be about to do something etc.
For example “I would go swimming to the swimming pool in my childhood” – means that in the past I went to swim periodically but now I don’t go swimming anymore...
These constructions help to add different shades to the main meaning of a sentence without wordy explanations. Now, how about getting answering the questions?
Subjunctive and Conditional Adventures
What if zombies attacked or you could time travel? Master subjunctive mood and conditional sentences through 10 thrilling scenarios that will make you wish grammar were always this exciting!
Are you A1/Beginner? Test your English CEFR Level!
This English grammar quiz is designed to help learners determine their proficiency level in the language according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). It covers a range of topics and language structures that are typically associated with A1 level learners, such as basic grammar structures, vocabulary related to everyday topics, and simple sentence constructions. The questions are designed to test learners' understanding of basic grammar concepts, such as verb tenses and subject-verb agreement, as well as their ability to use basic vocabulary to communicate in simple and familiar situations.
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.
Is your English level A2/Pre-intermediate? Test your English CEFR Level!
This English grammar quiz is designed to help learners check if their English proficiency level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) as A2/Pre-intermediate.
The test covers a range of grammar and vocabulary concepts that are typically associated with learners at this level. These concepts include more advanced verb tenses, more complex sentence structures, and a wider range of vocabulary related to various topics such as work, travel, and current events.
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.
Are you B1/Intermediate? Test your English CEFR Level to figure out!
This English grammar quiz is designed to check if an English learner is at B1/Intermediate CEFR level.
It covers a range of grammar and vocabulary concepts that are typically associated with Intermediate learners. These concepts include more advanced verb tenses such as present perfect and past continuous, complex sentence structures such as adverbial clauses and modal verbs, and a wide range of vocabulary related to various topics such as hobbies, and opinions. The quiz also tests the learner's ability to understand idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs.
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.
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.
CEFR C1/Advanced - check if this is your English grammar mastery level. Take the test to figure out!
This English grammar quiz is designed to check if an English learner is at C2/Upper Intermediate CEFR level.
This is a quiz to check if an English learner is at the C1/Advanced CEFR level. It tests the learner's ability to understand and use a wide range of complex and nuanced language. The questions will cover various grammar topics such as verb tenses, modals, passive voice, and idiomatic expressions. The learner will be expected to show a high degree of accuracy in their use of English. The quiz is designed to challenge even the most advanced learners and will be a good indicator of whether they have reached a C1 level of proficiency in the language.
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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Used to
We use this expression to talk about habits or repeated actions in the past which we don't do in the present.
For instance: "I used to pass all these grammar tests with ease!"
I Wish and If Only: Present Regrets and Complaints
Are you stuck in a boring lecture or dealing with a messy roommate? Learn how to express your present regrets and annoyances using wish + past simple, if only + could, and wish + would for complaints.
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