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English tenses grammar rules PDF Printable rules on English tenses.
Verb forms + sentence structures rules PDF Printable grammar rules on passive, reported speech, conditionals, imperative, time clauses, relative clauses, gerunds and infinitives, indirect questions and verb objects.
Practise different tenses and verb forms
Mixed tenses and verb forms PDF grammar exercises with answers:
- Future simple + going to + present tenses
- Present perfect + past simple
- Past perfect + past simple
- Future perfect + future continuous
- Time clauses + conditionals
- Reported speech + passive voice
- Modal verbs + imperative + gerund vs infinitive
Present simple + continuous
Present simple worksheets PDF Questions and negatives (do, does, don't, doesn't), the third person (he sits, does, tries).
Present continuous worksheets PDF I'm watching, He isn't writing, Are you reading?
Present simple vs continuous PDF Compare: I work, I'm working, Does he speak? Is he speaking?
Past simple + continuous
Past simple worksheets PDF The verb to be (was, were, wasn't, weren't), I worked, he wrote, I didn't write, Did you go?
Past continuous worksheets PDF I was sleeping, you weren't doing, Was she dancing?
Past simple vs continuous PDF Compare: I drove, he was driving.
Future simple + continuous
Future simple worksheets PDF I'll go, He won't go, Will they go?
Future continuous worksheets PDF I'll be going, I won't be going, Will you be going?
Future simple vs continuous PDF Compare: I'll work, I'll be working.
Going to vs Present tenses
Going to worksheets PDF Intentions + opinions: I'm going to buy, He's going to crash.
Present tenses for future PDF Timetables + arrangements: The bus departs at 10, I'm leaving tomorrow.
Will + going to + present continuous Compare: I'll leave, I'm going to leave, I'm leaving tonight.
Present perfect
Present perfect simple worksheets PDF I've been, Have you seen? + since, already, not yet...
Present perfect continuous worksheets PDF I've been living, It hasn't been working, Has he been playing?
Present perfect simple vs continuous PDF Compare: I've gone, I've been going.
Past perfect
Past perfect simple exercises PDF I had seen, It hadn't started, Had he done?
Past perfect continuous exercises PDF I'd been staying, She hadn't been living, Had you been doing?
Past perfect simple vs continuous PDF Compare: I had walked, I had been walking.
Future perfect
Future perfect simple exercises PDF I will have landed, Will you have sent?
Future perfect continuous exercises PDF I'll have been sailing, Will he have been working?
Future perfect simple vs continuous PDF Compare: I'll have made, He'll have been making.
You can also practise other grammatical structures in English grammar worksheets below.
Regular and irregular verbs
Regular + irregular verbs worksheets PDF Printable PDF exercises and lists of regular and irregular verbs.
Modal verbs
Printable worksheets with answers to download for free:
Can - Can't exercises PDF She can't speak English. We can come. You can go out.
Must - Mustn't exercises PDF I must improve. You mustn' talk.
Must - Have to - Mustn't - Needn't PDF You must help me. I have to get up. I mustn't be late. You needn't wash up.
Can - May - Must - Have to PDF You can join us. He may come. We must win. I have to leave.
Passive voice
Download free printable exercises with answer keys:
Present simple passive PDF It is finished. They are written.
Present continuous passive PDF The dinner is being made.
Past simple passive PDF He was asked. We were told.
Present perfect passive PDF I've been helped. It's been broken.
Past perfect passive PDF It had been made.
Mixed tenses passive PDF They are done. It is being built. He was asked. We've been served...
Imperative
Imperative worksheets: 2nd person Take it. Don't cry.
Imperative worksheets: 1st - 3rd person Let's do it. Let me see. Let him go.
Imperative test PDF A marked test on mixed imperative forms.
Gerund + infinitive
Gerund worksheets PDF He admitted cheating. I can't stand waiting.
Infinitive worksheets PDF He demanded to talk to me. He made her do it. She seems to be crying. He pretended to have been studying.
Gerund or infinitive worksheets PDF I like skiing. I would like to ski.
Gerund or infinitive test PDF A marked test on gerunds vs infinitives.
If clauses (conditionals)
Zero conditional worksheets PDF I always take my umbrella if it rains.
First conditional worksheets PDF I will take my umbrella if it rains.
Second conditional exercises PDF I would take my umbrella if it rained.
Third conditional worksheets PDF I would have taken my umbrella if it had rained.
Mixed conditionals exercises PDF Compare different forms of conditional sentences.
Mixed conditionals test PDF A marked printable test to download for free.
Relative clauses
Relative clauses worksheets PDF The man who met us... My car, which is over there... (who, which, that, whose)
Direct and indirect object
Direct + indirect object worksheets PDF I gave my dad a present. I gave a present to my dad.
Indirect questions
Indirect questions worksheets PDF Can you tell me who your best friend is?
Reported speech
Reported speech exercises PDF "I did it for you," she said. - She said she had done it for me.
Reported questions + commands PDF "Where are you?" - He asked me where I was. "Take this book." - She told me to take that book.
Mixed test on reported speech PDF tests with answers to download for free.
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