Category B1 Lower Intermediate Grammar

Essential English grammar for learners who wish to achieve B1 level.

The Difference between the Words ‘When’ and ‘While’

When and while are two words that are often confused by intermediate English language learners. As is often the case with confusing words, these particular two words can sometimes be interchanged but frequently have distinct meanings of their own. When…

English Idiomatic Expressions – Idioms

Idiomatic expressions, or idioms, are phrases whose meanings cannot be deduced from the literal definitions of the words within them. They are an essential but confusing part of the English language, but also of many other languages. In the UK,…

Test Yourself with a Parts of Speech Exercise

Words, the building blocks of language, are organised into various categories known as parts of speech or word classes. These classifications serve to facilitate the understanding of sentence structure and linguistic principles. Parts of speech Parts of speech are categories…

Using the Word ‘That’ in English

The word ‘that’ can cause much confusion to English language learners. In language, words are divided into word classes, or what are called ‘Parts of Speech’, and these word classes define the use of a word in a sentence. However,…

Grammar Exercises: Practise the English Tenses

Here is an opportunity to practise your English advanced past and future tenses. While there are numerous tense quizzes on this website, this post allows you to see an overview of quizzes laid out in document form. Such a structure…

Using English Articles: Practice Exercises

The following exercises are designed to give students practice at using articles (a, an, and the) in sentences. To understand when to use an article, one must first have an understanding of the parts of speech that make up the…

Using Verbs in English

This post examines the key aspects of verb usage. Verbs are a class of word that expresses an action. There are various aspects of verb usage that students of English need to learn, and these include sentence structure, subject-verb agreement,…

The Full Stop in UK English

The full stop is the small dot that appears at the end of a sentence written in certain scripts such as the Roman alphabet, which is used for the majority of Western languages. Likenesses of a full stop, also called…

Direct and Embedded Question Structures

A question is a spoken or written sentence or phrase that seeks information, clarification, a response or an explanation. Forming interrogative sentences simply means structuring questions. Interrogative sentences An interrogative sentence is a type of sentence that asks a question.…