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English grammar from zero to fluent — 100 lessons with colour-coded sentence patterns, Uzbek explanations and practice you can check yourself.

Tutorials in this playlist
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PE-1: What Is a Sentence? Subject + Verb
Build correct English sentences from day one: find the subject, find the verb, and put them in English word order — which is not Uzbek word order.
6m 84
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PE-2: Nouns: Countable and Uncountable
Why you can say 'three books' but never 'three breads' — how English splits nouns into countable and uncountable, and the words that go with each.
5m 39
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PE-3: Plural Nouns: Regular and Irregular
All the plural rules in one place — the -s and -es endings, y → ies, f → ves, the irregular family (child → children) and the nouns that never change.
6m 29
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PE-4: Articles: a, an, the and the Zero Article
The hardest small words in English, finally explained: a/an for new things, the for known things, and nothing at all when you speak in general.
6m 22
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PE-5: Pronouns: Subject, Object and Possessive
I or me? My or mine? Its or it's? Master the small words that replace nouns and stop your sentences from repeating themselves.
5m 26
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PE-6: The Verb "to be": am / is / are
The most used verb in English. Learn am/is/are, their short forms, negatives, questions — and why Uzbek speakers keep forgetting to say it at all.
5m 57
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PE-7: There is / There are
How to say that something exists — the English answer to 'bor' and 'yoʻq', with the agreement rule, negatives, questions and the there/it difference.
5m 28
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PE-8: This, That, These, Those
Four little words that point: near or far, one or many — plus how English uses them on the phone, in time expressions and when introducing people.
5m 23
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PE-9: Present Simple: Habits, Facts and Timetables
The tense of your everyday life. Learn when to use the Present Simple and master the one letter that causes more mistakes than any other: the third-person -s.
5m 29
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PE-10: Present Simple: Negatives and Questions
Meet do and does — the helper verbs that build every Present Simple negative and question, and the golden rule that stops 'she doesn't works'.
5m 26
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PE-11: Adverbs of Frequency: always, usually, never
How often do you do it? Learn the frequency scale from always to never, and the one position rule that decides where these words go in a sentence.
5m 24
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PE-12: Present Continuous: Happening Right Now
The tense for this exact moment: am/is/are + verb-ing. Includes the -ing spelling rules and the three other jobs this tense quietly does.
5m 24
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PE-13: Present Simple vs Present Continuous
The decision that separates confident speakers from hesitant ones — plus the stative verbs that refuse to take -ing at all.
5m 27
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PE-14: have / have got: Talking About Possession
Two ways to say what you own, and when each one sounds natural — plus the have that means 'do', as in have breakfast and have a shower.
5m 21
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PE-15: Adjectives: Meaning, Position and Order
Where adjectives go, why they never take -s, the native order of 'a beautiful old Uzbek silk carpet', and the bored/boring difference that changes what you say.
5m 27
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PE-16: Prepositions of Place: in, on, at
Three tiny words that Uzbek covers with one ending. Learn the zoom logic — at a point, on a surface, in a space — and the phrases you must simply know.
5m 27
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PE-17: Prepositions of Time: in, on, at
The same three words, a new logic: at for clock times, on for days and dates, in for longer periods — and the time words that take no preposition at all.
5m 20
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PE-18: Question Words: who, what, where, when, why, how
Six words that open any conversation, the word order that must follow them, and the English habit of leaving the preposition at the end.
5m 24
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PE-19: Past Simple of "to be": was / were
Your first step into the past. Only two forms to learn — was and were — plus there was / there were and the time words that send a sentence backwards.
5m 27
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PE-20: Past Simple: Regular Verbs and the -ed Ending
One ending for every person — the past is easier than the present. Includes the -ed spelling rules and the three sounds that ending can make.
6m 26
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PE-21: Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
The 180 verbs that refuse -ed — and they are the ones you need most. Learn them in sound families instead of one long alphabetical list.
6m 22
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PE-22: Past Simple: Negatives and Questions
One helper verb — did — handles every person and every verb, regular or irregular. Plus the rule that stops 'Did you went?' forever.
5m 22
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PE-23: Past Continuous: The Interrupted Moment
What were you doing at eight o'clock last night? The tense that paints the background of a story: was/were + verb-ing.
5m 23
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PE-24: Past Simple vs Past Continuous: when and while
The long action and the short one: how English tells a story with two tenses, and which of them follows 'when' and which follows 'while'.
5m 31
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PE-25: used to and would: Past Habits
How to say what was true then but is not true now — the structure that turns any sentence into a memory, and the trap of 'be used to'.
5m 21
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PE-26: Future with "will": Decisions, Promises, Predictions
One word for every person, no endings to remember — and five different jobs, from deciding on the spot to promising, predicting and offering help.
5m 24
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PE-27: Future with "be going to": Plans and Evidence
The future you already decided on, and the future you can see coming. Learn be going to — the closest thing English has to Uzbek's -moqchiman.
5m 24
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PE-28: Present Continuous for Future Arrangements
The tense you thought meant 'now' also talks about tomorrow — when the time and place are fixed and somebody else is expecting you.
5m 23
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PE-29: will vs going to vs Present Continuous
Three futures, one decision. A four-question ladder that picks the right one every time — plus the rule that bans will after when and if.
5m 24
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PE-30: Future Continuous: What You Will Be Doing
This time tomorrow, what will you be doing? The tense for an action in progress at a future moment — and the politest way to ask about someone's plans.
5m 26
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PE-31: Time Expressions: ago, for, since, by, until
The small words that pin a sentence to a moment: how long, since when, by when — and the for/since pair that decides half the marks in an exam.
5m 22
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PE-32: Present Perfect: Form and the Idea of "It Matters Now"
The tense Uzbek does not have. Learn have/has + V3 and the one idea behind it: a past action whose result you can still feel today.
5m 23
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PE-33: Present Perfect with for and since
How long have you lived here? The structure for something that started in the past and is STILL true — where Uzbek uses the present and English does not.
5m 24
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PE-34: Present Perfect with already, yet, just, still, ever, never
Six small words that give the Present Perfect its colour — and the exact position each one takes in the sentence.
5m 21
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PE-35: Present Perfect vs Past Simple — The Big Decision
The choice that decides more exam marks than any other in English — with one reliable test, the signal-word lists, and the news pattern used by every reporter.
5m 26
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PE-36: Present Perfect Continuous
The tense of visible effort: have been + -ing. For an activity that started in the past and is still going — or has just stopped and left traces.
5m 23
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PE-37: Present Perfect Simple vs Continuous
Finished result or ongoing activity? How many or how long? One question separates 'I've painted the kitchen' from 'I've been painting the kitchen'.
5m 24
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PE-38: Past Perfect: The Past Before the Past
When two things happened in the past, this tense says which one came first — had + V3, the same for every person.
5m 22
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PE-39: Past Perfect Continuous
How long something had been going on before another past moment — had been + -ing, the tense that explains why things were the way they were.
5m 25
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PE-40: Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
By this time next year, what will you have done? Standing in the future and looking back — will have + V3, and will have been + -ing.
5m 21
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PE-41: The 12 Tenses: The Complete Map
Every English tense on one page. Not twelve things to memorise — three times multiplied by four aspects, and one verb shown through all of them.
6m 21
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PE-42: can, could, be able to: Ability
Your first modal verbs — and the rules that govern all of them. Plus the difference between 'I could swim' and 'I was able to escape'.
5m 22
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PE-43: may, might, could: Possibility
How sure are you? The modals that sit at 50% — plus the maybe / may be trap that catches almost every learner.
5m 24
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PE-44: must, have to, need to: Obligation
Who says you have to? The difference between the rule inside your head and the rule on the wall — and why must has no past tense.
5m 20
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PE-45: mustn't vs don't have to: The Dangerous Pair
Two negatives that look like a pair but mean opposite things — one forbids, the other frees you. In Uzbek: 'mumkin emas' and 'shart emas'.
5m 22
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PE-46: should, ought to, had better: Advice
How to tell someone what to do without ordering them — three levels of advice, from a gentle suggestion to a serious warning.
5m 21
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PE-47: Modals of Deduction: must be, can't be, might be
Thinking like a detective in English: how to say how sure you are about something you cannot see — and why 'mustn't be' is never the opposite of 'must be'.
5m 21
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PE-48: Modals in the Past: must have, should have, could have
Regret, criticism and detective work about yesterday — modal + have + V3, the structure that lets you talk about what did or didn't happen.
5m 22
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PE-49: Polite Requests, Offers and Permission
The same request at five levels of politeness — how to ask, offer and invite in English without ever sounding rude by accident.
5m 22
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PE-50: shall, will, would: Willingness and Habit
Three related modals and their less obvious jobs — offering with shall, refusing with won't, being polite with would, and the 'd that hides two words.
5m 22
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PE-51: Modal Verbs: The Full Strength Scale
Every modal on one page, arranged by strength — obligation, certainty and ability — plus how each one moves into the past.
5m 32
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PE-52: Conjunctions: and, but, or, so, because
The words that join ideas into real sentences — and the although/but mistake that comes straight from Uzbek.
5m 27
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PE-53: Zero and First Conditional
If sentences that are real: what always happens, and what will happen if — plus the golden rule that there is never a 'will' after 'if'.
5m 19
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PE-54: Second Conditional: The Imaginary Present
If I had a million dollars… The conditional for dreams and impossible situations — and the famous phrase 'If I were you'.
5m 20
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PE-55: Third Conditional: Regretting the Past
The conditional for what never happened — if I had studied, I would have passed. How English rewrites a past it cannot change.
5m 22
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PE-56: Mixed Conditionals
When the two halves live in different times: a past cause with a present result, or a present cause with a past result.
5m 22
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PE-57: wish and if only
How English says 'koshki edi' — wishing for a different present, a different past, or for somebody to stop doing something annoying.
5m 21
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PE-58: Relative Clauses: who, which, that
How to add information about a noun without starting a new sentence — and why English puts the description AFTER the noun, unlike Uzbek.
5m 24
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PE-59: Defining vs Non-Defining Relative Clauses
Two commas that change what a sentence means — how English separates essential information from extra information.
5m 26
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PE-60: Passive Voice: Present and Past
When the doer doesn't matter: be + V3. The structure behind almost all academic and news English.
5m 25
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PE-61: Passive Voice in All Tenses, and the by-agent
One pattern, twelve tenses: change be, keep V3. Plus passives with modals, two objects, and when to keep the by-phrase.
5m 21
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PE-62: Reported Speech: Statements and Backshift
How to tell somebody what somebody else said — the backshift rule that moves every verb one step into the past.
5m 20
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PE-63: Reported Speech: Questions, Commands and Reporting Verbs
A reported question is not a question any more — no inversion, no question mark. Plus how to report orders, requests and a dozen useful reporting verbs.
5m 21
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PE-64: Gerunds and Infinitives: The Basics
When to say 'I enjoy reading' and when to say 'I want to read' — the two ways a verb follows another verb, and the preposition rule that never fails.
5m 24
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PE-65: Verbs That Change Meaning: stop doing vs stop to do
Six verbs where -ing and to + verb mean completely different things — the difference between stopping smoking and stopping to smoke.
5m 23
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PE-66: The Causative: have / get something done
You didn't do it — somebody did it for you. The structure behind 'I had my hair cut', which Uzbek expresses with -tirdim.
5m 21
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PE-67: Comparatives and Superlatives
Bigger, biggest, more beautiful, the most beautiful — the rules, the spelling, the irregulars, and the double-comparative mistake.
5m 22
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PE-68: as ... as, too, enough
Saying things are equal, excessive or sufficient — and the word-order rule that makes 'enough' go before nouns but after adjectives.
5m 22
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PE-69: Quantifiers: some, any, much, many, a lot of
How much and how many — the words for amounts, which sentence types they belong to, and why 'Would you like some tea?' breaks the rule.
5m 22
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PE-70: few vs a few, little vs a little
One tiny article changes your whole attitude: 'a few friends' is cheerful, 'few friends' is sad. Learn the difference and the countable split.
5m 21
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PE-71: Determiners: each, every, both, either, neither, all
Talking about groups with precision — one by one, two together, one of two, or none of them. Plus the singular verbs that surprise everybody.
5m 22
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PE-72: Word Order in English: SVOMPT
The master rule of English sentence building: subject, verb, object, then manner, place and time — in that order, every time.
5m 20
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PE-73: Question Tags
It's useful, isn't it? The little question at the end of a sentence — how to build it, and why Uzbek's single tag becomes dozens in English.
5m 21
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PE-74: Subject–Verb Agreement
Finding the real subject when a long phrase gets in the way — plus the nouns that look plural but aren't, and the ones that look singular but are.
5m 29
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PE-75: Possession: 's, s' and of
Where the apostrophe goes, when to use 'of' instead, and the one place you must never put an apostrophe at all.
5m 23
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PE-76: Adjective + Preposition, Verb + Preposition
The fixed partners you simply have to know — good at, depend on, listen to — plus the verbs that need no preposition at all, where Uzbek expects one.
5m 23
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PE-77: Phrasal Verbs: How They Actually Work
Why 'get up', 'get on' and 'get over' mean completely different things — the four types of phrasal verb and the pronoun rule that decides word order.
5m 24
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PE-78: 40 Everyday Phrasal Verbs by Topic
The phrasal verbs you will actually use, grouped by situation — morning routine, school, friendships, travel, problems and phone calls.
5m 22
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PE-79: Countable and Uncountable Revisited: Expressions of Quantity
The container words that let you count the uncountable — a piece of, a loaf of, a pair of — plus nouns that change meaning when they change side.
5m 21
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PE-80: Articles: The Advanced Cases
PE-4 gave you the system; here are the cases that still catch people — the USA, Lake Aral, the piano, twice a week, and the poor.
5m 21
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PE-81: Punctuation: Comma, Apostrophe, Colon, Semicolon
The small marks that carry big meaning — where the comma goes, what a colon does, and the comma splice that spoils good writing.
5m 29
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PE-82: Capital Letters and Spelling Rules
Where English uses capitals that Uzbek doesn't, the spelling rules worth knowing, and the twenty words learners misspell most.
5m 30
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PE-83: Emphasis with do, does, did
I DID tell you! How English uses its helper verb in a positive sentence to insist, contradict and add warmth.
5m 30
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PE-84: Inversion: Never have I seen ...
Putting the helper before the subject for dramatic effect — the structure that makes writing sound literary, and the exam favourite 'Had I known'.
5m 28
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PE-85: Cleft Sentences: It was ... / What I need is ...
How to put a spotlight on exactly the word you mean — splitting one sentence into two to correct, contrast or emphasise.
5m 30
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PE-86: Participle Clauses
How to join two sentences without a conjunction — the -ing and -ed openers that make written English shorter and more elegant.
5m 30
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PE-87: The Unreal Past: It's time, would rather, as if
More places where English uses a past tense for something that isn't past — it's time you went, I'd rather you stayed, he acts as if he knew.
5m 30
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PE-88: Linking Words for Writing: however, therefore, although
The words that hold an essay together — how to add, contrast, explain and conclude, and the punctuation each one needs.
5m 29
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PE-89: Word Formation: Prefixes and Suffixes
How one word becomes six — the prefixes that reverse meaning and the suffixes that change a word's job. The fastest way to grow your vocabulary.
5m 30
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PE-90: Collocations: Words That Live Together
Why you make a mistake but do your homework — the word partnerships that make the difference between correct English and natural English.
5m 29
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PE-91: Formal vs Informal English
The same message in two registers — how to sound right in an exam essay and right in a message to a friend.
5m 30
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PE-92: The 20 Mistakes Uzbek Speakers Make Most
The complete checklist — every error that comes from Uzbek, gathered in one place with the reason behind it and the fix.
6m 35
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PE-93: Writing an Email: Grammar That Sounds Polite
The email that gets a helpful reply — openings, closings, and the grammar of polite requests, all in one template you can reuse.
5m 28
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PE-94: Telling a Story: Narrative Tenses in Action
How the four past tenses work together to build a story — background, events, earlier causes and the words that carry a reader along.
5m 28
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PE-95: Giving Your Opinion and Disagreeing Politely
How to say what you think and say 'no' without offence — the phrases for opinions, agreement, partial agreement and polite disagreement.
5m 34
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PE-96: Describing People, Places and Things
The most common speaking task there is — how to describe someone's appearance and character, a place you love, and an object, using the grammar you already have.
5m 29
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PE-97: Describing Charts, Trends and Numbers
The language of data — rise, fall, peak, remain stable — plus the prepositions that decide whether something increased BY or TO a number.
5m 28
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PE-98: Making Excuses, Apologising and Explaining
Sorry for being late — the grammar of apologies, the tenses that make an excuse believable, and how to accept an apology graciously.
5m 28
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PE-99: Small Talk and Everyday Conversation Grammar
The grammar of being friendly — openers, echo questions, so do I / neither do I, and how to leave a conversation politely.
5m 29
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PE-100: Your Grammar Toolkit: The One-Page Review of Everything
The whole course on one page — every tense, every modal, every conditional, the ten golden rules, and what to do next. The finish line.
7m 31