English grammar

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The usual troublemakers

This is Yak Yacker’s English grammar shelf. Articles, prepositions, tenses, conditionals, word order — the bits people fake, then trip on.

Pick the structure that keeps beating you. Read the guide. Then drill it in Yak Cards, or jump into the 139-lesson course and meet it in a real lesson.

Then take one structure into a lesson so it isn’t just a page you read.

Start with these

Articles

The, a, an — the thing everyone fakes.

Present simple

What you do, what things are.

Word order

English sentence structure that actually holds.

Prepositions

Place, time, location. The small hard words.

Past simple

What happened. Then you tell it.

Future tenses

Will, going to, and the rest you actually need.

Conditionals

If this, then that. 0–3 without the fog.

Modal verbs

Can, should, must — the useful ones.

Irregular verbs

The list everyone pretends they’ve finished.

Passive voice

When the thing matters more than who did it.

Using the article the

The hardest little word in English.

Yak Cards

Practice the examples, not just read them.

Keep going

This / that / these / those

Pointing words. Easy until they aren’t.

Possessive adjectives

My, your, their — who it belongs to.

Either or / neither nor

Choices and refusals.

Prepositions of place, time, location

In, on, at. The map.

Reported speech

He said it was raining.

Verb conjugation

The shapes verbs take.

Conjunctions

And, but, because — how sentences join.

Subject / object / possessive pronouns

I, me, my. Don’t mix the pile.

Gender in English

He, she, they — in actual English use.

Hardest English words

The ones that look easy and aren’t.