Cheat sheets
English grammar at a glance: compact reference sheets with patterns and examples.
- Articles A/an, the and no article in common contexts. View the cheat sheet →
- Prepositions Time, place, movement and common prepositional expressions. View the cheat sheet →
- Adjectives Position, order, comparatives, superlatives and degree. View the cheat sheet →
- Verbs Forms, auxiliaries, tenses and everyday verb patterns. View the cheat sheet →
- Irregular verbs The most useful irregular verbs, grouped by how their three forms change. View the cheat sheet →
- Adverbs Formation, position, frequency, manner, time and degree. View the cheat sheet →
- Infinitives and gerunds Common verbs followed by to + verb, -ing, or either form. View the cheat sheet →
- Modal verbs Ability, permission, obligation, advice and possibility. View the cheat sheet →
- Imperative Instructions, requests, warnings and suggestions with let’s. View the cheat sheet →
- Comparatives and superlatives Compare two things or identify the highest or lowest in a group. View the cheat sheet →
- Passive voice Form the passive across common tenses and know when to use it. View the cheat sheet →
- Questions and auxiliaries Build direct and indirect questions with the right word order and auxiliary. View the cheat sheet →
- Countable nouns and quantifiers Choose singular, plural and uncountable forms, then add the right quantity word. View the cheat sheet →
- Pronouns and possessives See subject, object, possessive, reflexive and demonstrative forms together. View the cheat sheet →
- Verb contrasts Choose the tense or future form that matches the meaning, not just the time word. View the cheat sheet →
- Conditionals Compare real, possible and imaginary conditions from zero to third conditional. View the cheat sheet →
- Linking words Connect ideas of addition, reason, result, contrast and purpose. View the cheat sheet →
- Relative clauses Add identifying or extra information with who, which, that, whose and where. View the cheat sheet →