Let’s kick off the course with a quick overview of how to learn in this course so that you can get the most out of it. Remember, you need to practice everything you learn to really master it.

Section Length: 10 minutes

Before we jump into English sentence patterns in-depth, let’s go over an exercise to set the tone for the rest of the course. Doing transformations will help you develop a mindset of play.

Section Length: 31 minutes

1. Getting Started
2. Transformations Overview
3. Adding with Transformations
4. Nuanced Transformations

Not all commands and requests are created equal. Some can feel rude, and others may be gentle suggests. It all depends on the phrases used, and understanding which pattern is right for which situation.

Section Length: 26 minutes

1. Direct Commands
2. Softening Commands
3. Making Requests

There are many ways to ask questions, even if the answers are simple. In the case of yes/no questions, or closed questions, this is especially true. Let’s explore!

Section Length: 27 Minutes

1. Overview of Closed Questions
2. Building Closed Questions
3. Closed Questions with Modal Verbs

You may already know ‘how’ to begin questions with ‘how, why, when, where, who, etc.’ but are you sure you’ve mastered the nuances? Time to find out!

Section Length: 1 hour and 32 minutes

1. Overview of Open Questions
2. Why Questions
3. How Questions to Ask About Means
4. How Questions for Degree, Quality, and Amount
5. How Questions for Quality
6. Who Questions
    
7. Special Who Questions
8. Where and When Questions
9. What and Which Questions
10. Whose Questions

Nearing the end of our exploration of questions, let’s focus on statements that use question words, as well as a unique type of question known as ‘tag questions’.

Section Length: 35 minutes

1. Statement with Question Words
2. Tag Questions

In this section, we’ll explore the key sentence beginnings that most common descriptions include. Using ‘there is’ and ‘there are’ correctly is essential.

Section Length: 28 minutes

1. Overview of Descriptions
2. There is...
3. There are...

When you’re trying to express the way something is, sense words like ‘see, hear, feel, etc.’ are very useful. But, how are they used correctly? Let’s dive in!

Section Length: 27 minutes

1. Overview of Describing with Senses
2. How to Describe with Senses
3. Using "You'll See"

Getting thoughts across to others clearly is one of the hardest challenges in spoken or written English. Good news! The most common phrases are pretty plug-and-play.

Section Length: 51 minutes

1. Picturing and Imagining
2. Instructing and Imperatives
3. Comparing with Like
4. Comparing with Similar
5. Points of References
6. Adding with Have and With

‘When should I use an ‘ing’ verb instead of a ‘to’ verb!? Are they even verbs? Help! Don’t be afraid. While gerunds and infinitives may look confusing at first, clear examples can make them clearer.

Section Length: 40 minutes

1. Overview of Gerunds
2. Building Gerunds
3. Overview of Infinitives
4. Building Infinitives
5. When to Use Infinitives
6. When to Use Gerunds
7. When to Use Either Gerunds or Infinitives

Linking sentences and phrases together with conjunctions can give you much more flexibility when expressing yourself in English. We’ll cover the most common conjunctions, with lots of examples.

Section Length: 1 hour and 58 minutes

1. Overview of Subordinating Conjunctions
2. Although
3. Even If and Even Though
4. Whereas
5. Because
6. Once and As Soon As
7. Since
8. Ever Since
9. Until
10. Unless
11. If

Whether you want to improve your syntax or just have more options when explaining something, coordinating conjunctions are an essential building block of the English language.

Section Length: 1 hour and 34 minutes

1. Overview of Coordinating Conjunctions
2. Building Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions
3. And
4. Or
5. Yet
6. But
7. So
8. So That

You were told in school ‘Don’t use passive voice!’ Well, that’s not quite right. If you can’t use it, why does it exist? This section will explore both active and passive voice sentences.

Section Length: 31 minutes

1. Active and Passive Structure
2. When to Use Passive Voice
3. Intensive Active and Passive Review

When communicating in English, we often need to say what may or may not be true in the future, or explore what could have been in the past, and how that may have affected the present.

Section Length: 50 minutes

1. Using Hypotheticals
2. Exploring Past Hypotheticals: Part 1
3. Exploring Past Hypotheticals: Part 2

Let’s take a break from the patterns to focus on some exercises you can do to push yourself and reach a higher level of mastery with the patterns you learn in this course, and beyond!

Section Length: 36 minutes

1. Slapping and Breaking
2. Practicing Slapping and Breaking
3. Really Long Sequences
4. Limits Are Your Friend
5. Limits Are Your Friend: Example

If you start every sentence ‘It is’ or ‘I am’ you’re missing out on a huge range of possible ways to express yourself in English.

Section Length: 1 hour and 40 minutes

1. Beginnings with Adverbs
2. Beginnings with Adjectives
3. Beginning with To + Verb
4. Beginning with -ing Verbs
5. Beginning with Prepositional Phrases
6. Past Participle Beginnings: Part 1
7. Past Participle Beginnings: Part 2
8. Past Participle Beginnings: Part 3
9. Having + Past Participle

We’ve covered a lot in this course, but there’s more to go. In this section, we’ll explore a few key grammar components that can be very useful when you need to add information, specify, and clarify.

Section Length: 1 hour and 14 minutes

1. Section Overview
2. Relative Clauses: Non-essential Type 1
3. Relative Clauses: Non-essential Type 2
4. Essential Relative Clauses
5. Clarifying Nouns
6. Adding Details and Explanation: Part 1
7. Adding Details and Explanations: Part 2
8. Using Specific Verbs

You’ve come a long way. It’s been an amazing journey! Let’s wrap up the course and talk about what’s next.

Section Length: 11 minutes