Under construction: I'm trying to upload stuff I wrote last year, but then I also need to organize all of this, so there'll be changes for sure!!!

New: Future in the Past (see below)

Functional Grammar - What it is
Grammar Teams - reviewing grammar

My Notes and Exercises (unless different source is mentioned) - but in the present chaos, there are also Exercises in the section with this name above!

The Amazing World of Modal Auxiliaries (it includes "will" and "would")

Vocabulary, Semantics

Lexical Creativity Workshop (4) (previous ): Mistakes by Native Speakers: Ambiguity and Multiplicity in Meaning (1 page)
Lexical Relations: Some notes on euphemisms and synonyms (1 page)
Verbs for Essays 01 (1 page)
Verbs for Essays 02 (1 page)

Exercises to review grammar points functionally - by using Oral Drilling and Collecting Useful Language by native speakers - for Upper Intermediate and Advanced students

Inversions after negative adverbials (1 page) Some more practice on relative clauses (1 page) Miscellanea 01 (1 page) - includes passives, Present perfect cont., future cont. ...

Verbs 1 an introduction on verbs, on the tenses and the non-personal forms
Phrasal verbs (with listening exercises)
Use of tenses: Past simple vs. pres. perf, / Past simple & past cont. (1 page)
Present perfect or past simple? (1 page)
Expressing the future
Progressive and non-progressive verbs
V-S inversion with adverbials
Future in the Past (1 page)

How...? and What ... like? (on audio too)

Clauses 1 - intro, types
Clauses 2 - adverbial clauses
Clauses 3 - some confusing connectors
Clauses 4 - conditional sentences (a type of adverbial clause)
Clauses 5 (1 page) - relative clauses - Oral Drilling 1
Clauses 6 (1 page) - relative clauses - Various topics and Oral Drilling 2

Use of Linking Expressions, by michelle (1 page) (Upper Intermediate, Advanced)
List of Mistakes: Improving your wording and your use of connectors - an example (1 page) (Upper Intermediate, Advanced)
Useful Linking Expressions by Ana (Intermediate)
Connectors (first draft) (1 page) - to modify


Infinitives, gerunds and participles 01 - based on common mistakes
Infinitive or Gerund? 1 Check this out: here
Infinitive or Gerund? 2
Infinitive or Gerund? 3
Infinitive or Gerund? 4 (1 page) with audio (TP Podcast episode)

Nouns and Company (Determiners) (2 pages) - for your List of Mistakes
Other & Co. - explanation, crib note & 2 exercises
The Saxon Genitive, the of-phrase and noun phrases (1 page)

Modifiers 1-4 - the definite article "the": use & omission

Prepositions: Time & Place. At, On, In (for everybody! Read 'em aloud many times!)

Adverbs: Word Order
Adjective or Adverb (for Ana, who feels good about it!, Y3B, 2006-07)
Ways to Describe & Grammar
Adjectives: Word Order
Adjectives 1 - comparative & superlative (1 page)
Adjectives 2 - comparative & superlative (1 page)
Adverbs & Adverbials (2 pages)
Exercise on Adverbials (2 pages; with key)

Recycling: Grammar notes & exercises I used at state-run secondary schools

More Info: External Links
The OWL Grammar Reference Guide for ESL learners
Complete list of tenses (Georgia State University)
Complete list of irregular verbs (Georgia State University)
Mary Ansell's English Grammar (Reference on-line book WITH exercises)
BBC Ask About English
The Internet Grammar of English