Help Detective Paws complete his interrogation report about the stolen office pastry by dragging the correct verbs into the questions.
"First of all, do you like jelly donuts?"
"And were you in the breakroom at noon yesterday?"
"Tell me, is your colleague aware of your massive sweet tooth?"
"First of all, do you like jelly donuts?"
We use "do" as the auxiliary verb to ask Yes/No questions about present habits and preferences with main verbs like "like".
"And were you in the breakroom at noon yesterday?"
We use "were" (the past tense of "to be") with the pronoun "you" to ask about a location or state in the past.
"Tell me, is your colleague aware of your massive sweet tooth?"
We use "is" because "your colleague" is a singular third-person subject, and "aware" is an adjective (not a verb), so we need the "to be" verb.
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.
Auxiliary verb
If you've ever wondered why English asks Do you know? instead of Know you?, or how a single sentence can carry tense, aspect, AND voice (has been being cleaned), you've felt the work of auxiliary verbs. They're tiny words that quietly carry most of English's grammatical machinery — get them wrong and questions, negatives, and tenses all fall apart.
An auxiliary verb combines with a main verb to add grammatical meaning. The English auxiliaries are be, have, do, and the modal verbs (can, will, should…). They handle questions (Do you?), negation (don't), tense and aspect (has gone, is going), and passive voice (was eaten).
Verb
If grammar feels overwhelming, the fix is almost always to focus on verbs first. They carry the action, the time, the mood, and the voice — a single verb form decides whether your sentence reads as past or present, fact or hypothetical, active or passive. Get verbs solid and the rest of grammar suddenly looks much smaller.
A verb expresses action, state, or occurrence — the engine of every English sentence. Most verbs have five forms (base, -s, past tense, past participle, -ing); be has eight; modal verbs have fewer. Verbs carry tense, aspect, mood, and voice.
Humor
If you've ever reached the third drill of present perfect and felt your eyes glaze over, you've hit the limits of dry repetition. Practice that's even mildly funny is far easier to come back to — and far easier to remember weeks later. That's the whole point of the Humor tag.
The Humor tag marks questions where the author has tried to make the practice entertaining alongside instructive. Subjective, sometimes silly, but designed to keep you engaged long enough for the rule to stick.
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
If you can order coffee, ask for directions, and tell someone what you did yesterday — but struggle the moment the conversation drifts into anything abstract — you're operating at A2. Knowing this matters: A2 is the level where most learners plateau because they reach for B2 material too early and burn out. Stay here and your foundations get unbreakable.
A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, covering routine communication and the first wave of real grammar: past simple and continuous, present perfect, basic modal verbs, first conditional, and common verb-pattern rules.
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.