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Learning English Grammar

BBC Radiowww.bbc.co.uk

Practise your English grammar with these short programmes.

Each week we explore a new piece of grammar you need to improve your English.

Hear how grammar is used in everyday situations, and test what you’ve learnt with games and quizzes.

Find more at bbclearningenglish.com

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Episodes

Verb patterns

Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns.

Nov 14, 20236 min

The future perfect

How to use the future perfect to make educated guesses about things that will happen.

Oct 24, 20236 min

Narrative tenses

What tenses do we use to tell stories in English?

Sep 12, 20236 min

Adverb position 2

We discuss where we use adverbs with adjectives and other adverbs.

Sep 05, 20236 min

Relative clauses

Learn how to use defining and non-defining relative clauses.

Aug 29, 20236 min

Talking about the future

Learn how to use 'will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' to talk about the future.

Aug 22, 20236 min

Adverb position

We talk about the three positions where adverbs usually go when used with verbs.

Aug 08, 20236 min

Active and passive voice

Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.

Jul 18, 20236 min

Reported speech

What to do with pronouns, tenses and word order when you report what someone else says.

Jul 11, 20236 min

The third conditional

Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.

Jun 27, 20236 min

Adjectives and adverbs

We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.

Jun 20, 20236 min

The past perfect

Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.

Jun 13, 20236 min

Phrasals

To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.

May 23, 20236 min
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