Lessons

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The Lessons section holds our collection of free lessons designed to cover the basic building blocks of English.

We have lessons for all levels:

• The idiom buster presents a random series of common idioms and then tests your knowledge in a fun way.
• Reported (indirect) speech - describing what was said without using quotes.
• Expressing rules - puzzled by can, must, have to, don't have to? All are explained here.
• The tenses analyzes each tense in detail and provides online practice.
• Relative clauses - understand defining and non-defining relative clauses.
• Articles - when to use a, the, or nothing.
• Talking about the future English has many ways of describing the future, all is revealed here.
• Euphemisms - alternative ways of referring to unpleasant things.
• Punctuation
• Phrasal Verbs - an introduction to one of the language's most confusing features.

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