Help Alex interview a potential new roommate by dragging the correct question words into his notes.
"So, when do you usually wake up on weekends?"
"Out of curiosity, how often do you clean the apartment?"
"By the way, who is your favorite person to invite over?"
"So, when do you usually wake up on weekends?"
Use "when" to ask about time.
"Out of curiosity, how often do you clean the apartment?"
Use "how often" to ask about frequency or habits.
"By the way, who is your favorite person to invite over?"
Use "who" to ask about a person.
Questions
If you've ever asked You like coffee? with rising intonation and gotten a confused look — you've felt the gap between casual and grammatical English questions. Many languages form questions with intonation alone, but English usually requires inversion (Are you ready?) or do-support (Do you like coffee?). Skip the structure and your questions sound like uncertain statements.
Questions in English use inversion of subject and an auxiliary (Can she dance?) or do-support when no auxiliary is present (Does the milk go in the fridge?). Yes/no questions, wh-questions, negative questions, and tag questions all share this machinery.
English Grammar Basics
If grammar feels like a tangle of rules you can never quite remember, the fix isn't more advanced material — it's making the foundations automatic. The English Grammar Basics tag is where you do that: the building blocks every other topic stands on. Get these right and the rest stops feeling random.
It marks quizzes and explainers covering the core of English: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, tenses, voice, mood, and basic sentence structure. Useful whether you're a beginner or refreshing rusty knowledge.
Vocabulary for A1/Elementary/Beginner
If you've started English and feel overwhelmed by how much there is to learn — start here. The A1 vocabulary layer is the smallest practical word stock that lets you survive: introduce yourself, describe your home and family, ask for basic things, read signs, follow short conversations. It's the smallest investment with the biggest immediate payoff.
The A1 vocabulary tag covers foundational vocabulary for beginner-level English — roughly the first 500–800 words. Topics: family, home, food, days, numbers, basic actions, greetings, common objects.
A1 | Elementary | Beginners
If you can say your name, ask Where is the toilet?, and read a simple bus sign — but freeze when someone speaks at normal speed — you're at A1. That's not a problem to fix; it's the level where most learners actually live for a while, and recognising it lets you pick the right material instead of drowning in advanced grammar that wasn't meant for you yet.
A1 is the starting level of the CEFR framework, covering basic everyday communication: greetings, introductions, simple personal questions, present-tense forms of be/have/do, and core determiners and prepositions.
Difficulty: Easy
If a textbook leaves you confused, sometimes the issue isn't the topic — it's that the practice material is layered with extra complications. Filtering by Easy strips that away. You get one rule at a time, in plain everyday language, with no trick questions. It's how you make a shaky foundation solid before stacking more on top.
The Easy difficulty tag marks beginner-level questions and challenges — typically A1 or early A2. Single-rule focus, short sentences, common vocabulary, one clear correct answer.