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Learning English Grammar

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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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Yesterday · 8 min
Things we collect
What's the difference between 'loads of' and 'lots of'?
November 3 · 8 min
Regrets
Learn to talk about your regrets using wish, the third conditional and more
October 27 · 8 min
Reminiscing
We talk about our memories all the time. Learn how to reminisce in English.
October 20 · 8 min
Preferences
Hear real examples and learn to use prefer, would prefer and would rather.
October 13 · 6 min
To-do lists
Learn to use 'need to', 'have to', 'got to' and 'needs doing'.
October 6 · 8 min
Fixing problems
Phil's gate wasn't going to fix itself!
September 29 · 9 min
Stories from the past
Learn how to use narrative tenses to tell stories
September 22 · 9 min
An interesting sight
Learn language for when you see something and you don't know what's happening
September 15 · 6 min
Making suggestions
Might we suggest a programme about dogs and cats?
September 8 · 8 min
Favourite things
Learn about adjective order and adjective phrases.
September 1 · 9 min
Doing stressful things
Learn how to make comparative and superlative sentences with this topic
August 25 · 7 min
What have you been up to?
Grammar guru Georgie teaches us about the present perfect.
August 21 · 7 min
Using services
Sometimes we need people to do things for us
August 18 · 7 min
Film genres
What kinds of films do you like? Neil and Beth talk about film genres and quantifiers.
August 11 · 8 min
First dates
Neil's date fell asleep, and he still married her!
August 4 · 8 min
A stolen guitar
Hear about Neil's stolen possession and learn about the passive voice
July 28 · 8 min
Learn how to use articles – 'a', 'an' and 'the'.
Learn how to use articles – 'a', 'an' and 'the'.
July 21 · 9 min
Highs and lows
We learn about superlatives like 'the best' and 'the most unusual'.
July 14 · 8 min
Holiday habits
Georgie explains how to talk about usual behaviour.
July 7 · 7 min
Gossip
Georgie explains language we can use when we're speculating about something.

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