The grammar outside the tenses that decides whether a sentence is right — a/an/the, countable and uncountable, comparatives, question tags, gerunds, the passive, clauses, word order and agreement.
Once the tenses are in place, the mistakes that remain come from a different set of rules — and they are the ones that keep a sentence sounding foreign even when the verb is correct. This bundle collects them: the article system most languages manage without, countable and uncountable nouns and the quantifiers that follow from them, comparatives, question tags, the choice between a gerund and an infinitive, the passive, relative and participle clauses, and the two rules English enforces most strictly of all — word order and subject-verb agreement. Read straight through it doubles as a checklist for anyone whose English is fluent but keeps getting marked down.
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