Basics. Conditional Conjunctions: Supposing, Provided That, and Even If
Are you ready to move beyond basic "if" clauses? Test your advanced grammar skills by mastering nuanced conditional phrases like supposing, provided that, on condition that, even if, and but for.
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Basics. Get-Passives and Other Variations
Do you know when to use got caught instead of was caught, or why a theory is understood rather than got understood? Challenge yourself with complex sentence structures, including dynamic get-passives, causative delegation, and adversative passives for describing unexpected misfortunes.
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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. Reported Questions and Commands
Do you still use question word order when reporting what someone asked? Test your advanced grammar skills on reported wh- questions, yes/no questions, and infinitive commands in this 10-question challenge.
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Basics. The Subjunctive in That-Clauses
Why do we say "I demand that he be fired" instead of "is fired"? The formal subjunctive mood ignores standard conjugation rules to express urgency, necessity, or strict demands. Test your advanced grammar skills by applying the active and passive subjunctive, negative subjunctive forms, and the continuous subjunctive.
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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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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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Quantifiers: All, Most, Some, and No
Do you know when to say no food instead of none of the food? Master these essential grammar rules as you test yourself on basic quantifiers, the "of the" rule, and the difference between no and none.
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Both, Either, and Neither
Do you get confused when talking about two people or things? Master the rules for pairs by testing your knowledge of pronouns, determiners, and paired conjunctions like either/or and neither/nor.
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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: Going To - Future Plans and Predictions
Test your Basics: Going To: Plans and Predictions skills with 12 questions at easy level.
A Little and A Few vs. Little and Few
Does adding the letter "a" really change a sentence's entire meaning? Test your grasp of countable vs. uncountable quantifiers and learn to distinguish between positive quantities (a little/a few) and negative shortages (little/few).
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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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Quantifiers: Much, Many, and A Lot Of
Do you know why we say "much time" but "many hours"? Master the rules of quantity by choosing the correct words for countable nouns, uncountable nouns, and versatile phrases like a lot of.
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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.
Quantifiers: No, None, and Any
Test your Basics: No, None, Any skills with 12 questions at medium level.
Basics: Past Continuous - Form and Use
What were you doing at 8 PM last night? Master the art of describing past ongoing actions by practicing interrupted actions, parallel events, and specific past times.
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Basics: Past Simple - Irregular Verbs
Test your Past Simple: Irregular Verbs skills with 15 questions at easy level.
Basics: Past Simple - Regular and Irregular Verbs
Test your Past Simple: Regular Verbs (worked/got/went) skills with 15 questions at easy 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 Continuous
Test your Present Continuous: Form and Use (I am doing) skills with 15 questions at easy level.
Basics: Introduction to the Present Perfect
Have you ever wondered how to talk about your past experiences without saying exactly when they happened? Master the basics of the present perfect tense by practicing subject-verb agreement, irregular past participles, and interrogative forms across everyday scenarios like travel, food, and chores.
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Basics: Present Simple - Form and Use
Test your Present Simple: Form and Use (I do/work/like) 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.
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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Basics. Common Questions.
The challenge is about common questions in English: simple present and past questions, "why + negative" questions, questions with "who" as the subject, and questions with "who" and "whom" as the object.
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Basics. Common Uses of Auxiliary Verbs.
This challenge covers common uses of auxiliary verbs, including forming negative sentences, expressing interest or surprise, creating tag questions, and using "too," "either," "so," and "neither" in sentences.
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Basics. Determiners and Pronouns.
The introduction covers various determiners and pronouns, including this/that/these/those, every and all, all/most/some/any/no/none, and (a) little/(a) few. These words help specify items, people, or quantities in sentences.
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Basics. Future Simple, Continuous and Perfect Tenses.
The Future Simple, Future Continuous, and Future Perfect tenses express actions or events in the future. Future simple describes an action's occurrence, future continuous highlights its ongoing nature, and future perfect emphasizes its completion by a specific time. These tenses are formed using different auxiliary verbs: "will/shall" for future simple, "will be/shall be" for future continuous, and "will have/shall have" for future perfect. Negative sentences and questions involve placing "not" after the auxiliary or inverting the auxiliary and subject, respectively.
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Basics. Past Simple and Past Continuous/Progressive Tenses.
The Past Simple tense describes completed actions in the past, using regular (-ed) or irregular verb forms. The Past Continuous tense expresses ongoing actions in the past, using "was/were" and the -ing form of the main verb. Negative sentences use "didn't" or "not" with the verb, while questions involve inverting the subject and auxiliary verb.
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Basics. Using there is/are and it in impersonal sentences.
Learn how to use "there is/are" and "it" in everyday English sentences to talk about the presence of objects, events, and quantities. Get to know how to create questions and negative sentences, and see examples using different verb tenses. Also, discover common ways to use "it" when discussing time, distance, and weather.
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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. Common More Complex Questions.
Master more complex common question types, such as "Who...? / What...? / Where...? / Which...?" with prepositions at the end, "What + noun" and "Which + noun" questions, questions about duration, and complex sentence questions.
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Basics. Present Perfect.
Any idea what Present Perfect is? The Present Perfect tense describes actions with a connection to the present, formed using "have" or "has" and the past participle of the main verb. It differs from Past Simple and Present Simple tenses. To identify Present Perfect, look for "have" or "has" followed by a past participle. Negative sentences add "not" after the auxiliary verb, and questions invert the subject and auxiliary verb.
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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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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Basics. Reporting Verbs: Gerunds, Infinitives, and That-Clauses
Did the suspect deny to eat or deny eating the last slice of pizza? Master the tricky grammatical structures of reported speech by testing yourself on verbs followed by gerunds, verbs followed by infinitives, object plus infinitive patterns, and that-clauses.
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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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Basics. Wish and If Only for Past Regrets
Have you ever made a hilarious mistake and wished you could turn back time? Learn how to accurately express past regrets using wish, if only, and the past perfect tense while helping time travelers, dramatic chefs, and gloomy ghosts fix their grammar.
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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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Quantifiers: Much, Many, and a Lot of
Test your Quantifiers A2: much / many / a lot of — Choosing the Right One skills with 15 questions at easy level.
Participle Clauses: Shortening Sentences with -ing and Having + Past Participle
Practice using participle clauses to create more concise sentences. This challenge covers both -ing participles for simultaneous actions and having + past participle for completed actions.
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Past Simple vs. Present Perfect for Romance Language Speakers
Do you constantly second-guess whether to use "I ate" or "I have eaten"? Master the difference between completed past actions and ongoing life experiences across 14 hilarious scenarios.
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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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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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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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