Grammar and Usage
Rules of English grammar and correct sentence formation.
About this unit
Grammar and Usage is the largest unit in English for Communication. It covers parts of speech, sentence structure, agreement, tenses, voice, reported speech, determiners and sentence correction. Practise a few questions of each type daily; grammar improves with steady, regular work.
Topics in this chapter
Parts of speech
Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.
5 questionsSentence structure
Simple, compound and complex sentences.
5 questionsSubject-verb agreement
Matching verbs with singular, plural and collective subjects.
5 questionsTenses
Simple and continuous present and past, present and past perfect, future and future perfect.
5 questionsActive and passive voice
Changing sentences between active and passive voice.
5 questionsDirect and reported speech
Converting direct speech to indirect (reported) speech and back.
5 questionsArticles, determiners and quantifiers
Using a, an, the, this, those, some, any, much, many and similar words correctly.
5 questionsSentence correction
Finding and correcting grammatical errors in sentences.
5 questions