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. Nominal Relative Clauses: Whoever, Whomever, and What
Do you know whether to write "I leave my fortune to whoever" or "to whomever" when it follows a preposition? Master advanced pronoun cases by testing yourself on whoever vs. whomever, what vs. that, and tricky verb agreement within nominal relative clauses.
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Basics. Prepositional Verbs and Adjectives
Are you impervious to grammar mistakes, or is your writing fraught with preposition errors? Test your high-level vocabulary by mastering advanced prepositional verbs and adjective-preposition combinations across dramatic, real-world scenarios.
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Basics. Substitution with So, Not, and Do
Do you know when to say "I suspect not" instead of "I don't suspect so"? Master advanced clause replacement by practicing negative expectations, adjective substitution, verb phrase fronting, and the tricky rules of stative verbs with "do".
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Basics. Basic Meanings of the Verb Get
How can one small word mean so many different things? Master the most common uses of this versatile verb by practicing when it means to arrive, become, or receive.
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Basics. Object Pronoun Placement
Do you know whether you should say "pick it up" or "pick up it"? Master your sentence structure by practicing object pronouns after verbs and prepositions, double object placement, and separable phrasal verbs.
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Basics. First-Person Pronouns: I, Me, My, and Mine
Do you know exactly when to use "I" instead of "me", or "my" instead of "mine"? Master the complete first-person pronoun system by practicing subject pronouns, object pronouns, and possessive adjectives and pronouns across hilarious everyday scenarios.
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Subject and Object Pronouns
Do you know when to use "I" instead of "me" in a sentence? Master the basics of subject pronouns that perform actions and object pronouns that receive them, all while navigating fun scenarios with secret agents, wizards, and aliens.
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Subject vs. Object Questions
Test your Basics: Subject vs. Object Questions skills with 12 questions at medium level.
Basics. Basic Word Order: Subject-Verb-Object
Did the dog eat your essay, or did your essay eat the dog? Master the foundational Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) pattern by helping aliens, detectives, and students build basic English sentences correctly.
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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. Pronouns and Possessives.
This topic covers various aspects of pronouns and possessives in English. It includes personal pronouns for people and things, possessive forms to show ownership or relationships, forming questions with possessives, and reflexive pronouns.
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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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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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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. 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. Advanced Relative Pronouns: Whose, Whom, Where, When, and Why
Struggling to decide between "who" and "whom" in formal writing? Master the intricacies of object relative pronouns (whom), possessive relative pronouns (whose), and relative adverbs (where, when, why) in this engaging 11-question challenge.
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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. Verbs of Perception: Bare Infinitive vs. Gerund
Did you hear the floorboards creak, or did you hear them creaking? Master the rules for using the bare infinitive for completed actions and the -ing form for actions in progress after common verbs of perception.
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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 and Intransitive Verbs
All English verbs are divided into three big groups of transitive, intransitive and linking verbs. The belonging to one of these groups influences the choice of the object the verb may be followed by: direct, indirect, indirect without a preposition, prepositional object or the complex object. Another reason to know about "transitivity/intransitivity" of a verb is to be able to use the verb in the passive voice. In addition, some verbs such as get, grow, keep, look, and alike, can be also link verbs that will strongly influence the meaning of a sentence.
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!
Verb + Object + Infinitive Patterns
Practice using verbs that take an object + infinitive pattern, such as want, ask, tell, allow, and encourage. Learn when to use to + verb after the object and which verbs require a bare infinitive instead.
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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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