Explaining Now
Adults Grammar
Leanne explains how English speakers use the present perfect simple to explain the present with finished, past actions and the present perfect continuous to describe longer, possibly unfinished actions. This lesson is for students at a pre-intermediate level.
Review and the Past Simple
Adults Grammar
Mark reviews the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous and also explains the similarities and differences of the present perfect with the past simple. This video is for students at a pre-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: First Conditional & Time Clauses
Adults Grammar
Leanne gives a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of the First Conditional grammar rule as well as how to talk about the future with time clauses. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: Present Perfect Continuous
Adults Grammar
Leanne gives a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of the Present Perfect Continuous (Progressive). This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: Present Perfect Simple
Adults Grammar
Leanne gives a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of the Present Perfect Simple. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: Participle Adjectives
Adults Grammar
Leanne gives a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of the participle (participial) adjectives. This includes an explanation about the difference between ~ing (present participle) and ~ed (past participle) forms. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: Phrasal Verbs (Part One)
Adults Grammar
Craig gives the first part of a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of phrasal verbs in English. In part one, Craig discusses separable phrasal verbs. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
Auxiliary Verbs - Intermediate English with Mark #4
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
Have & Have Got - Intermediate English with Mark #6
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
Auxiliary Verbs & Making Questions - Intermediate English with Mark #7
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
Present Simple & Continuous - Intermediate English with Mark #9
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
State & Dynamic Verbs - Intermediate English with Mark #10
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
Complex Sentences & Modal Verbs - Intermediate English with Mark #21
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
Review of Modals #1 - Intermediate English with Mark #22
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
Review of Modal Verbs #2 - Intermediate English with Mark #23
Adults Grammar
English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.
How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce
Adults Grammar
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon.
Grammar's great divide: The Oxford comma - TED-Ed
Adults Grammar
If you read "Bob, a DJ and a clown" on a guest list, are three people coming to the party, or only one? That depends on whether you're for or against the Oxford comma -- perhaps the most hotly contested punctuation mark of all time. When do we use one? Can it really be optional, or is there a universal rule? TED-Ed explores both sides of this comma conundrum.
Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude
Adults Grammar
It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we're writing. When is it right to say "the dog and me" and when should it be "the dog and I"? Does it even matter? Andreea S. Calude dives into the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists - who have two very different opinions on the matter.
When to use "me", "myself" and "I" - Emma Bryce
Adults Grammar
Me, myself, and I. You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably, because they all refer to the same thing. But in fact, each one has a specific role in a sentence: 'I' is a subject pronoun, 'me' is an object pronoun, and 'myself' is a reflexive or intensive pronoun. Emma Bryce explains what each role reveals about where each word belongs.
Comma story - Terisa Folaron
Adults Grammar
It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma trade.
How to Make Negative Sentences
Adults Grammar
Mark explains the basic rules for making negative sentences. This video is for students at a pre-intermediate level.