Welcome to our comprehensive English verb grammar guide. Explore the sections below to master English verb conjugation and usage.
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English Tenses
4 tense families
Master 12 tenses across past, present, future, and conditional — with patterns, examples, and usage cues.
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Modal Verbs
9 modals covered
Learn how to express ability, permission, possibility, and obligation with can, could, may, might, must, and more.
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Auxiliary Verbs
Helping verbs
How be, have, and do power every tense, question, and passive sentence — plus the modal auxiliary family.
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Stative vs Dynamic
Verbs of state vs action
Why you can't say "I am knowing" — the verbs that describe states, not actions, and the chameleons that flip between both.
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Transitive vs Intransitive
Object vs no object
Which verbs need a direct object and which stand alone? The distinction that unlocks passive voice and fixes half of your grammar confusion.
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Active vs Passive Voice
Voice and emphasis
How to form the passive across all tenses, when it's the right choice, the casual get-passive, and the mistakes that reveal your level.
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Infinitive vs Gerund
Verb + verb patterns
"Stopped to smoke" vs "stopped smoking" — which verbs take the -ing form, which take to, and where swapping them changes the meaning entirely.
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Reported Speech
Indirect speech rules
How to shift tenses, pronouns, and time expressions when reporting what someone said — plus the say-vs-tell trap and when NOT to backshift.
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Grammar Tips
Quick answers
Short, targeted answers to classic grammar puzzles — lie vs lay, affect vs effect, could of vs could have, and a growing collection more.
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Irregular Verbs
313 irregular verbs
Browse the verbs that break the -ed rule — grouped by pattern, with full conjugation charts.
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Regular Verbs
1633 regular verbs
The predictable majority — how the -ed rule works, with spelling variations and examples.
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All Verbs
1946 verbs total
The complete alphabetical index of every verb in the collection — search or browse A–Z.
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Exercises
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Practice what you've learned with fill-in-the-blank drills and sentence completion tasks.
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Quizzes
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Test your knowledge with interactive quizzes on tenses, modals, and irregular-verb forms.
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