Browse English Grammar Rules
Every English grammar topic, organized into 30 categories covering 214 rules — from beginner basics like articles and present simple to advanced structures like inversion, cleft sentences, and reported speech.
Pick a category to see every rule it contains. Each card highlights three popular rules to get you started, plus a link to the full category page.
Present, past, future, and perfect tenses
Popular: Future Continuous · Future in the Past · Future Perfect
Articles
20A, an, the - when and how to use them
Popular: A vs An: The Vowel Sound Rule · Articles with Abstract Nouns · Articles with Geography
In, on, at, by, for, and more
Popular: Dependent Prepositions · Prepositions After Adjectives · Prepositions of Movement (to/into/onto/from)
Can, could, may, might, must, should
Popular: Modal Verbs for Deduction · Modal Verbs of Ability (can/could/be able to) · Modal Verbs of Advice (should/ought to)
If clauses and conditional sentences
Popular: First Conditional · Mixed Conditionals · Provided That and As Long As
When the action is more important than the doer
Popular: Passive Voice (Advanced) · Passive Voice (Basic) · Passive Voice with Modals
Telling what someone said
Popular: Reported Questions & Commands · Reported Speech (Statements) · Reporting Verbs
Who, which, that, where, when
Popular: Question Words with -ever · Reduced Relative Clauses (Participial) · Relative Clauses (Defining & Non-defining)
Connecting words and ideas
Popular: Contrast Conjunctions (although/though/even though/however) · Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS) · Future Time Clauses
Sentence structure and syntax
Popular: Adverb Position · Comparatives & Superlatives · Indirect Questions
Verb + -ing vs to + verb patterns
Popular: Gerunds vs Infinitives
Some, any, much, many, a lot of
Popular: All, Both, Each, Every · Approximate Quantity · Each vs Every
Countable, uncountable, and plural forms
Popular: Abstract and Concrete Nouns · Collective Nouns · Compound Nouns
Personal, reflexive, and relative pronouns
Popular: Indefinite Pronouns · Personal Pronouns Overview · Possessive Pronouns and Determiners
Describing words and their order
Popular: Adjective Order · Adjectives: -ed vs -ing · As...As Comparisons
Verbs
14Stative verbs, phrasal verbs, and more
Popular: Causative Verbs: have/get/make/let · Get Passive · Have and Get Expressions
Stress, endings, connected speech, and intonation
Popular: Connected Speech (UK): T-Glottalization (butter → /ˈbʌʔə/) · Connected Speech (US): T-Flapping (water → /ˈwɔɾər/) · Connected Speech: Assimilation
Commas, apostrophes, and other marks
Popular: Apostrophe Rules · Comma Rules · Ellipsis (...)
Adverbs
10Manner, frequency, degree, and position
Popular: Adverbs of Degree · Adverbs of Frequency · Adverbs of Manner
Wh- questions, yes/no, and question tags
Popular: Echo Questions · Negative Questions · Question Tags
This, that, these, those, and possessives
Popular: Demonstratives: this/that/these/those · Introductory It · Possessive Determiners
Noun clauses, adverb clauses, and more
Popular: Adverb Clauses · Concessive Clauses · Noun Clauses
Simple, compound, complex sentences
Popular: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences · Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) Order
Connectors for addition, contrast, sequence
Popular: Cause and Effect Linkers · Linking Words: Addition · Linking Words: Contrast
Spelling rules and common patterns
Popular: American vs British Spelling · Doubling Consonants · Homophones
Cleft sentences, inversion, and stress
Popular: Cleft Sentences · Ellipsis (Omitting Words) · Fronting for Emphasis
Negative forms, double negatives, and neither/nor
Popular: Hardly, Scarcely, Barely · Negative Forms · Neither...Nor and Either...Or
So do I, neither do I, agreeing and disagreeing
Popular: Agreeing and Disagreeing · So do I / Neither do I · Tricky Subject-Verb Agreement
Cardinal, ordinal, dates, times, and fractions
Popular: Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers · Dates and Times · Fractions and Decimals
Confusing words, British vs American, collocations
Popular: British vs American English · Common Collocations · Commonly Confused Words