English everyday grammar

Add useful detail to your English sentences. Describe an action happening now, distinguish countable items from amounts, make a comparison, or locate an event in time and space. Each lesson helps you test a choice against the meaning you want.

Describe the scene you can actually picture

These lessons help you explain what is happening, how much is available, where something is, and how two options differ. Use a real room, a meal, or a planned outing as your context. A concrete scene makes the contrasts testable: a book can be inside a drawer or on a table, and a larger room can still be expensive.

Choose from meaning and construction together

Current activities need a complete continuous verb group, while ordinary knowledge states often use the simple present. Quantity words depend on whether a noun represents counted items or a mass amount. Comparison words depend on the adjective and the reference group. Read the boundary cases so that a useful beginner pattern does not become an inaccurate rule about every sentence.

Transfer one pattern to a new situation

After the worked example, produce a message about your own surroundings. Change the number of items, the comparison point, or the time of an activity and rebuild the sentence. Use feedback to locate the cause of an error, then return later without the answer choices. The references attached to each section identify the grammar or usage being explained.

Sources

• British Council LearnEnglish: Present continuous
• British Council LearnEnglish: Countable and uncountable nouns
• British Council LearnEnglish: Comparative and superlative adjectives
• British Council LearnEnglish: Prepositions of place
• British Council LearnEnglish: Prepositions of time at, in and on