This unit focuses on essential grammar structures to help you communicate more naturally and accurately in English. From collocations to passive voice, you’ll master key tools for both formal and informal contexts, improving your speaking and writing skills.
Key Learning Objectives
- Learn common word pairings to sound more natural.
- Give commands, instructions, and warnings clearly.
- Express universal truths and scientific facts.
- Confirm information and encourage conversation.
- Distinguish between states and actions for correct tense usage.
- Shift focus to the action’s receiver, not the doer.
- Accurately describe emotions and reactions.
🤝📚 1.1. Collocations
Start this lessonCollocations are combinations of words that sound “right” to native English speakers. They are not random word combinations but rather words that naturally pair together through common usage.
🚦 1.2 Imperatives
Start this lessonImperatives are verb forms used to give orders, commands, instructions, or make requests. In English, imperatives are formed using the base form of the verb without a subject.
⛔ 1.3 Negative Imperative
Start this lessonThe imperative mood in English is used to give commands, make requests, or offer advice. When we want to tell someone NOT to do something, we use the negative imperative form. This lesson will explain how to form and use negative imperatives in English.
⚖️ 1.4 Zero Conditional
Start this lessonThe Zero Conditional is used to express situations where the outcome is always true, like scientific facts or general truths. It describes real and factual situations with predictable results.
🎭 1.5 Question Tags
Start this lessonQuestion tags are short questions added to the end of statements to confirm information or invite agreement. They are very common in spoken English and make your conversations sound more natural.
💭🏃 1.6 Stative Verbs / Action Verbs
Start this lessonAction verbs describe actions, processes, or physical activities that a person or thing can do. They show movement or change and can be used in continuous tenses. Action verbs show what someone or something does, did, or will do.
🏗️👀 1.7 Passive Voice (Present)
Start this lessonThe passive voice is a grammatical construction where the subject of the sentence receives the action, rather than performing it. In other words, the focus is on the action itself and the object being acted upon, rather than the person or thing doing the action.
⏳🏛️ 1.8 Passive Voice (Past)
Start this lessonThe passive voice is an essential grammatical structure that allows us to emphasize the action or the recipient of an action rather than the doer. In the sentence above, the focus is on “The Eiffel Tower” and the action “was designed,” rather than on Gustave Eiffel (the doer of the action). This is the essence of passive voice.
🧍♂️ 1.9 Participial Adjectives (-ed/-ing)
Start this lessonParticipial adjectives are formed from verbs and are used to describe nouns. There are two main types of participial adjectives: those ending in -ed and those ending in -ing. Understanding the difference between these two forms is essential for expressing feelings and descriptions accurately in English.