How to Learn English Grammar, everything you need to know about easily managing your tenses so your langauge will flow!

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I know, it's easy for me to say, but really, all you need to do is take one thing at a time and then slowly fit the pieces together in a way that makes sense to you..so you will know how to use the verb tenses. This How to Learn English Grammar page will be more effective for you if you first read Graham's article about English success.
You're probably asking yourself .."What is she talking about now?" Trust me, read his article and then come back to this page.

This Example Will Help You To Discover How to Learn English Grammar ..easily:

Firstly, lets remember that a language is made of "tenses" which refer to time, in other words my choice of tense will depend on when the action I refer to took place (yesterday), takes place (usually), has taken place (already) or will take place (if...) etc. The fact is that the key to knowing how to formulate sentences is knowing how to choose and conjugate the right tense for any specific context.

One of the most basic truths about Verb Tenses is often totally disregarded and lost in that foggy land of "grammar explained". So if you want to improve your use of tenses, or help one of your students to improve then agree to follow this rule:

1. Always define the time, every time, without fail, when you want to make a sentence, because it will help you to decide very quickly which verb tenses to use.

This is really easy using the following word groups:

Adverbs of frequency for describing routines with the present simple.
S.A.U.R.O.N. ie. Sometimes, always, usually, rarely, often, never.

If you want to describe a past action use some of the following:Yesterday, last week, last month, two days/hours/minutes ago.

If you want to describe an action that is happening now:
At the moment, now. In fact, if you want to describe any action that is either happening now or any time you will need to start building your English verb list.

So, as you begin to understand how to learn English grammar you will realise that you will need to also acquire the "ingredients" to apply that grammar to. You will need to start building irregular verb lists, synonym lists and idiom lists.
Don't worry, we will go into detail with each of the verb tenses very soon, and with the right examples it will be easy to follow.

Have a look at our explanation of the "Simple Present" which is also known as the "Present Simple" ...
Simply go back and click on the "Verb Tenses" link.

How to Learn English Grammar - Irregular Verbs & Verb Tenses

Knowing the forms of irregular verbs is essential to being able to conjugate your verb tenses, form sentences and speak fluently and accurately.

Here is a list of the most frequent irregular verbs in their past simple and past participle forms:

Infinitive - Simple Past - Past Participle
irregular-verbs

When you are familiar with the past tense forms you can also refer to our page on Reported Speech.

If you have already heard about Phrasal Verbs then this short article will be interesting for you. Be warned! It's geared towards intermediate levels although there is no law against beginners starting to use one or two phrasal verbs that they find useful.

How to Learn English Grammar For Beginners:

Here is your "shopping list" of language keys that you will need to master, and if you do it in order it will be easy.

To Be
am/is/are
my/your/his/her
Numbers
Hello and goodbye
Questions and negatives
Telling the time
I/you/we/they

There is/are prepositions and SOME/ANY
Can/Can't
Could/Couldn't
Was/Were

Countable and Uncountable nouns
Comparatives and superlatives

Present continuous
Going to future

Adverbs and adjectives
Present perfect and ever, never, yet and just

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How important is pronunciation?
Accent is the sing-song style you hear (you simply have to get used to it to understand it), single word pronunciation is slightly easier to manage because it is possible to study specific examples of how the same words are typically pronounced in various countries.

Idioms! Now we are talking!
Start speaking natural English! Make your English really flow by learning English idioms! What is an idiom? It's a manner of speaking, an expression that is typically used by native English speakers, which is normally very difficult to understand by just knowing the words used. >BR>

Idioms are absolutely necessary if you want to improve the quality of your English.

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