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Learning English Grammar

BBC Radio•www.bbc.co.uk
Education
Language Learning

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

Question forms

We’ll take a look at yes-no questions and questions to get to know each other.

Sep 21, 2021•6 min

Present tenses

Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect.

Sep 07, 2021•6 min

'Used to' and 'would'

Hear about a strange habit Finn had when he was a child. He used to sleepwalk!

Aug 24, 2021•6 min

Talking about the future

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

Aug 17, 2021•6 min

Question tags

"You didn't eat all the chocolate, did you?" Learn how to use 'did you' - a question tag.

Aug 10, 2021•6 min

State verbs

Is it OK to say 'I'm loving your work'? Neil and Catherine take a look at state verbs.

Jul 27, 2021•6 min

The second conditional

For an explanation about the 2nd conditional, just give us 6 minutes and we can help!

Jul 20, 2021•6 min

The first conditional

'If it rains, I will take my umbrella'. Learn how to use the first conditional.

Jul 13, 2021•6 min

Present and past passives

Listen to this programme for examples of passives and explanations of how they're used.

Jul 06, 2021•6 min

Indirect questions

Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

Jun 29, 2021•6 min

Verb tenses

Neil and Catherine go on a 'tour' of 6 very important English tenses.

Jun 22, 2021•6 min

Too, very, enough

We will help you understand how 'too', 'very', and 'enough' are used and what they mean.

Jun 15, 2021•6 min

Subject questions

Learn how we form questions when we want to ask about a subject or an object.

Jun 08, 2021•6 min

How to use 'used to'

Learn how to talk about something you did regularly in the past, but don’t do now.

Jun 01, 2021•6 min

Might, may, could

Catherine might cook curry for dinner. Learn how to use 'might', 'may' and 'could'.

May 25, 2021•6 min

Might, may, could

Catherine might cook curry for dinner. Learn how to use 'might', 'may' and 'could'.

May 25, 2021•6 min

Defining relative clauses

How to use defining relative clauses. They give information about a noun in a sentence.

May 18, 2021•6 min

Verb patterns

When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an infinitive?

Apr 13, 2021•6 min

Articles

Rob and Emma talk about articles and Finn talks about elephants in Cambodia.

Mar 30, 2021•6 min

The past simple tense

"Did you have breakfast?" Learn how to use the past simple tense.

Mar 16, 2021•6 min

'Have to' and 'must'

Learn how to talk about obligations in English using 'have to' and 'must'.

Mar 09, 2021•6 min
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