English Grammar Online – Reference and Explanations – Learning English
Here you'll find rules and explanations on various aspects of English Grammar.
There are 198 Grammar pages available at the moment, with short and simple explanations which are easy to remember.
We have a special table with all English tenses.
Here you will find detailed explanations on the English tenses:
- Simple Present
- Present Progressive
- Simple Past
- Past Progressive
- Present Perfect
- Present Perfect Progressive
- Past Perfect
- going to-future
- will-future
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Grammar Terms | Topic on englisch-hilfen.de | Examples |
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Adjectives | Mandy is a careful girl. |
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Adverbs | Mandy drives carefully. |
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Articles | This is a book. Look at the board. |
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Modal Auxiliaries | I am playing football. |
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Conditional Perfect Progressive | I would have been working. |
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Conditional Perfect | I would have worked. |
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Conditional Progressive | I would be working. |
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Conditional Simple | I would work. |
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Conjunctions and Fillers | I like tea and coffee. |
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Future Perfect | I will have played football by tomorrow. |
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Future Perfect Progressive | I will have been playing football for an hour by 10.30. |
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Future Progressive | I will be playing football next Sunday. |
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Genitive s | Ronny's brother |
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Gerund | I enjoy playing football. |
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going to-future | I'm going to play football this afternoon. |
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Conditional sentences - if | If I study, I will pass the test. |
If I studied, I would pass the test. | ||
If I had studied, I would have passed the test. | ||
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The Imperative in English | Go home! |
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Reported Speech | Susan says that she works in an office. |
Susan said that she worked in an office. | ||
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Infinitive | Gagarin was the first to fly in a spaceship. |
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Langformen, Kurzformen | We aren't from London. |
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Modals | You mustn't do that. |
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Nouns | Your hair looks lovely. |
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Passive voice | Cameras are built in Japan. |
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Past Perfect Progressive | I had been playing football when Susan came. |
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Past Perfect | I had played football when Susan came. |
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Past Progressive | I was playing football the whole evening. |
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Personal pronouns | We read a book. |
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Plural | Here are five books. |
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Possessive pronouns | This is my book. |
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Prepositions | The books are on the desk. |
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Present Perfect Progressive | I have been playing football for 2 hours. |
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Present Perfect | I have just played football. |
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Present Progressive | I'm playing football now. |
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Questions with question words | Where are the girls? |
When do you watch TV? | ||
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Question tags in English | You are John, aren't you? |
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Reflexive pronouns | They help each other. |
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Relative pronouns | My house, which has a blue door, needs painting. |
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Contact clauses – no relative pronouns | This is the boy I met at the party yesterday. |
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Short answers | Are you English? - Yes, I am. |
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Simple Past | I played football yesterday. |
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Simple Present | I play football every week. |
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Singular/Plural | Here is one book. |
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Quantifiers | There are some apples left. |
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Tenses | I play football. |
I am playing football. | ||
I played football. | ||
I have played football. | ||
I will play football. | ||
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this, that - these, those | This is Pat and that is John. |
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Verbs | We sing a song. |
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will-future | I will play football next week. |
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Word order | They play handball in the gym every Monday. |
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Yes/No questions | Are you from England? |
Do you speak French? |