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
Related
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- Grammar Stories
- Fun Grammar Lessons
- Basic Grammar Sentences
- Grammar & Usage Resources
- Grammar Teaching Order – How to Best Use the Grammar Lessons on Our Site
- Grammar Tests
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