Each guide below explains one topic in plain English, then shows it in use: worked examples, a table of common mistakes with the correct form, exam tips, 10 practice questions with answers and the questions students ask most. The writing-format guides (letters, notices, emails, reports, articles, diary entries and stories) include solved model answers and the layout examiners expect.
Start with parts of speech and tenses if you are building the basics, or jump to the format you have a test on. When you are ready to check yourself, take the free 100-question English grammar test. For board papers, the CBSE Class 10 writing guide and the ICSE Class 10 composition guide show how these formats are marked.
Grammar
- Active and passive voice
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Articles: a, an and the
- Clauses
- Conditional sentences
- Conjunctions
- Degrees of comparison
- Determiners
- Direct and indirect speech
- Figures of speech
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Nouns
- Parts of speech
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Punctuation
- Question tags
- Subject-verb agreement
- Tenses in English
- Types of sentences
Vocabulary
Writing formats
- Advertisement writing (classified and display)
- Article writing
- Debate writing
- Descriptive writing
- Dialogue writing
- Diary entry writing
- Email writing
- Essay writing
- Formal letter writing
- Informal letter writing
- Invitation writing (formal and informal invitations and replies)
- Leave application for school
- Letter writing
- Message writing
- Narrative writing
- Notice writing
- Paragraph writing
- Poster making
- Report writing
- Speech writing
- Story writing
- Summary writing
Literary devices
Meaning, examples and effect for 64 devices: see all literary device guides.