March 4 is National Grammar Day. Whether you’re looking for grammar presentation ideas and teaching tips, searching for activities and lessons, or just need a refresher of the rules, this handy index of our popular blog posts is for you.

March forth on March fourth!

Verbs

• Simple Present Vs. Present Progressive
• Imperative Verbs
• Simple Past Vs. Past Progressive
• 5 Fun Activities for Irregular Verbs
• Simple Future: Teaching the Three Forms
• Simple Future Vs. Future Progressive
• Present Perfect: Two Uses
• Present Perfect Vs. Present Perfect Progressive
• Past Perfect Vs. Past Perfect Progressive
• Future Perfect Vs. Future Perfect Progressive
• Teaching Mixed Tenses
• Non-Action Verbs & Exceptions
• How to Teach “Used To” in 6 Easy Steps
• Used To, Get Used To, and Be Used To
• The Passive Voice
• Causative Verbs
• The Passive Causative
• How Do You Teach Phrasal Verbs?
• 8 Ways to Practice Idioms in Class
• Tips for Teaching the Subjunctive
• An Easy Way to Teach Conditionals
• How to Use the Conditional “Should”
• Gerunds and Infinitives: Helpful Teaching Tips
• Exceptions to the Noun + Infinitive Rule
• 5 Verbs with Meaning Changes: Gerunds and Infinitives – Advanced
• Why Do We Use “Looking Forward To” with a Second -ING Verb?
• Subject-Verb Agreement: Non-Count Nouns That End in “S”
• Make Vs. Do
• Hope Vs. Wish
• Look, Appear, Feel + Adjective or Adverb?
• Recommend, Suggest, Advise: Verbs That Have Multiple Sentence Patterns

Adverbs, Adjectives, Pronouns, Nouns, Articles, Modals & More

• Question Formation in English
• Wh- Questions
• Plural Endings: -s or -es?
• Prefixes
• Transition Words & Phrases
• Transportation Prepositions: In & On
• Confusing Possessive Plurals
• Can We Start a Sentence with a Conjunction?
• There Is/There Are + Nouns in a Series
• Adverb Clauses
• Adverb Phrases
• English Sentence Patterns
• English Word Endings: Suffixes That Show the Part of Speech
• Word Families
• 7 Adverb Patterns
• Adverbs of Manner
• Adverbs of Frequency
• Tips & Tricks for “Not Very Often”
• Adverbs with Two Forms
• Already, Still & Yet
• Still, No Longer & Not Anymore
• What’s the Deal with Because, Since, As, and Due To?
• Can We Ever Use “Ever” with the Simple Past?
• Look, Appear, Feel + Adjective or Adverb?
• Preposition or Adverb?
• However: 7 Sentence Positions & 2 Uses
• Adjective Order and Punctuation
• Comparative Adjectives
• Superlative Adjectives
• Restrictive & Non-Restrictive Adjective Clauses
• Relative Pronouns – Formality Scales
• How to Teach -ED/-ING Adjectives: 9 Simple Steps
• We Vs. Us
• Reflexive Vs. Intensive Pronouns
• Team: Who, What, or Which?
• Possessive Adjectives & Pronouns
• Forming the Possessive of Words Ending in -S
• Count & Non-Count Nouns
• Teaching Articles: A, An & The
• “There Is A” Vs. “There Is The”
• What’s the Difference between “a Number of” and “the Number of”?
• When Do We Use “All of the”, “All the”, or “All”?
• Tricky Quantifiers: Some, Any, Every, Each & No
• Suggestions with Modals of Advice and Necessity
• Modals of Possibility: May, Might, Could
• Reported Speech
• Say Vs. Tell & Other Speaking Verbs
• Embedded Questions
• Tag Questions Are Fun to Teach, Aren’t They?
• Do You Know Vs. Did You Know
• “Post-Truth” & Hyphenation with Prefixes
• “Go Home” – Why Do We Drop Prepositions and Articles in Certain English Expressions?
• Parallel Structure and Paired Joining Terms
• Or or And in Negative Sentences?
• Each Other’s or Each Others’? Each Other or One Another?
• Is It Correct to Say “I’m Done”?
• Why Can’t We Say “Funner”?
• How Unique Is “Unique”?
• When Do We Capitalize “President”?
• When to Capitalize Directional Words
• Abbreviations for Years: How to Use BC, AD, BCE & CE Correctly
• Saying & Writing Fractions in English

Commonly Confused Words

• Look Like Vs. Like
• Come Vs. Go
• Commonly Confused Prepositions: Above, Over, Below & Under
• Whether Vs. Weather
• Commonly Confused Verbs: See, Look, Watch
• A While Vs. Awhile
• Over Vs. More Than
• Affect Vs. Effect
• Inauguration: Word Family & Synonyms
• Prefer Vs. Rather
• All Right Vs. Alright
• Ah Vs. Aah
• Aw Vs. Awe
• Inquire Vs. Enquire
• Hanged Vs. Hung
• Nauseous Vs. Nauseated
• Sleigh Vs. Sled
• Especially Vs. Specially
• Compliment Vs. Complement
• Hope Vs. Wish
• Lay Vs. Lie: Let’s Lay This Matter to Rest!
• Try To Vs. Try And
• People Vs. Persons
• Learned Vs. Learnt
• Addictive Vs. Addicting
• Everyday Vs. Every Day
• Any Time Vs. Anytime
• Either Vs. Neither
• How to Explain Despite Vs. Although
• Teaching Tips on Than and Then
• Teaching Tips on Other, Another, and The Other
• Teaching Tips on It’s and Its
• Teaching Tips on They’re, Their, and There
• Teaching Tips on You’re and Your
• Teaching Tips on To, Too, and Two
• Teaching Tips on Many and Much
• Teaching Tips: Who’s Vs. Whose
• Too & Enough
• So, Such & Too
• Assure, Ensure & Insure
• What’s the Deal with Because, Since, As, and Due To?
• Can Hardly Wait or Can’t Hardly Wait?
• Take Out, Takeout, or Take-Out? Differences in Two-Word Verbs, Nouns & Adjectives
• Can Hardly Wait or Can’t Hardly Wait?
• Resume, Résumé, or Resumé?
• Confusing Singular & Plural Forms: Phenomenon/Phenomena, Medium/Media
• Progressive Vs. Continuous and Other Synonymous Grammatical Terms
• 6 Commonly Confused Word Pairs

Punctuation

• Quotation Marks: Single Vs. Double
• Commas in Independent & Dependent Clauses
• Comma Confusion: Greetings, Introductions & Birthdays
• Punctuation Rules: Parentheses
• Using the Em Dash Correctly
• Adjective Order and Punctuation
• When to Use Hyphens: Rules for Multiple-Word Adjectives
• How Useful Is the Semicolon?
• In Defence of the Serial Comma

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