This site is dedicated to my present and past students who have asked me to repeat my in-class lectures on grammatical structures. I have since moved from a chalk board to a whiteboard, so excuse the title!

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1. A verb story to practice the verb tenses.

2. Did you know that 'perfect' means 'completed' in grammar?

3. Here's an explanation of the present perfect progressive.

4. All those INGs in English, what are they?

5. The Gerund and its uses.

6. The Passive Voice and the reasons we use it.

7. Making the passive voice.

8. The causative and the usual three verbs that make it.

9. The causative passive and how it works.

10. Gerund, causative, and passive all together.

11. Sense verbs (or perception verbs) like hear feel, sense...

12. Reduced Relative Clauses can be confusing; take a look at this partial explanation.

12b. The Conditionals... the three basic conditionals

13. The subjunctive... are you in the mood to learn about it?

14. Cohesive Connectors for writers who want to connect their sentences better.

15. Here's a multiple choice quiz for participial phrases:
large movie (5mb) or small movie (2mb)

16. A review of grammar using a movie trailer, "The Shaggy Dog". (179mb)

Last update: March 31, 2006