Rules and Explanations

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Grammar terms	Where to find on englisch-hilfen.de	Example
Adjectives	Adjectives	Mandy is a careful girl.
Adverbs	Adverbs	Mandy drives carefully.
a/an the Articles	Articles	This is a book. Look at the board.
Auxiliaries	Modal Auxiliaries	I am playing football.
Conditional Perfect Progressive Conditional II Continuous	Conditional Perfect Progressive	I would have been working.
Conditional Perfect Conditional II Simple	Conditional Perfect	I would have worked.
Conditional Progressive Conditional Continuous	Conditional Progressive	I would be working.
Conditional Conditional I Conditional Simple	Conditional Simple	I would work.
Conjunctions	Conjunctions and Fillers	I like tea and coffee.
Future Perfect Futur II Future Perfect Simple	Future Perfect	I will have played football by tomorrow.
Future Perfect Progressive Future Perfect Continuous	Future Perfect Progressive	I will have been playing football for an hour by 10.30.
Future Progressive Future Continuous	Future Progressive	I will be playing football next Sunday.
Genitive s Apostrophe s Possessive s	Genitive s	Ronny's brother
Gerund Gerundium -ing form	Gerund	I enjoy playing football.
going to-future	going to-future	I'm going to play football this afternoon.
if-clauses Conditional sentences Conditional clauses	Conditional sentences - if	If I study, I will pass the test. If I studied, I would pass the test. If I had studied, I would have passed the test.
Imperative	Imperative	Go home!
Indirect speech Reported speech	Reported Speech	Susan says that she works in an office. Susan said that she worked in an office.
Infinitive	Infinitive	Gagarin was the first to fly in a spaceship.
Long forms, short (contracted) forms	Langformen, Kurzformen	We aren't from London.
Modals Modal auxiliaries	Modals	You mustn't do that.
Nouns	Nouns	Your hair looks lovely.
Passive voice	Passive voice	Cameras are built in Japan.
Past Perfect Progressive Past Perfect Continuous	Past Perfect Progressive	I had been playing football when Susan came.
Past Perfect Past Perfect Simple Simple Past Perfect	Past Perfect	I had played football when Susan came.
Past Progressive Past Continuous	Past Progressive	I was playing football the whole evening.
Personal pronouns	Personal pronouns	We read a book.
Plural	Plural	Here are five books.
Possessive determiners Possessive pronouns	Possessive pronouns	This is my book.
Prepositions	Prepositions	The books are on the desk.
Present Perfect Progressive Present Perfect Continuous	Present Perfect Progressive	I have been playing football for 2 hours.
Present Perfect Simple Present Perfect   Present Perfect (simple form)	Present Perfect	I have just played football.
Present Progressive Present Continuous	Present Progressive	I'm playing football now.
Questions with question words	Questions with question words	Where are the girls? When do you watch TV?
Question tags	Question tags	You are John, aren't you?
Reflexive pronouns self, each other	Reflexive pronouns	They help each other.
Relative pronouns who, which, whose, that	Relative pronouns	My house, which has a blue door, needs painting.
Relative clauses without relative pronoubs Contact clauses	Contact clauses	This is the boy I met at the party yesterday.
Short answers	Short answers	Are you English? - Yes, I am.
Simple Past Past Simple	Simple Past	I played football yesterday.
Simple Present Present Simple	Simple Present	I play football every week.
Singular	Singular/Plural	Here is one book.
some, any, much, many Quantifiers	Quantifiers	There are some apples left.
Tenses	Tenses	I play football. I am playing football. I played football. I have played football. I will play football. ...
this, that - these, those Demonstrative pronouns	this, that - these, those	This is Pat and that is John.
Verbs	Verbs	We sing a song.
will-future Futur I Future Simple	will-future	I will play football next week.
Word order	Word order	They play handball in the gym every Monday.
Yes/No questions Questions without question words	Yes/No questions	Are you from England? Do you speak French?