B1-B2 Grammar
Browse all B1-B2 Grammar lessons with examples, explanations, and practice quizzes.
Zero Conditional in English
Use the zero conditional for general truths, routines, and results that regularly follow a condition.
Present Continuous: I Am Doing
Use the present continuous for actions happening now, temporary situations, changes, and arranged future events.
Present Simple: I Do
Use the present simple for habits, states, facts, schedules, and repeated actions.
Present Continuous and Present Simple: Temporary or Regular?
Contrast temporary, changing activities with regular actions, states, and facts.
First and Second Conditionals: If I Do and If I Did
Compare likely or open future conditions with hypothetical or more remote situations.
Past Simple: I Did
Use the past simple for completed events, past states, and sequences in a finished time frame.
Past Continuous for Background and Parallel Actions
Use the past continuous for background, temporary past situations, interrupted activities, and parallel actions.
Present Perfect: Results, Experience and Continuing Time
Develop accurate present perfect choices for present results, experience, recent events, and continuing situations.
Future Continuous and Future Perfect
Contrast activities in progress at a future time with actions completed before a future deadline.
Present Perfect or Past Simple? Present Relevance and Finished Time
Choose present perfect for a present viewpoint and past simple for events in a finished past time frame.
Present Perfect or Past Simple? News and Detail
Use present perfect to introduce current news and past simple to continue with finished-event details.
Past Perfect: I Had Done
Use the past perfect to locate an earlier event or state before a later past reference point.
Past Perfect Continuous: I Had Been Doing
Use the past perfect continuous for duration, repeated activity, and causes before a later past point.
Have and Have Got
Compare have and have got for possession, relationships, characteristics, and selected present states.
Prepositions: Common Patterns and Pitfalls
Improve accuracy with common preposition patterns after verbs, adjectives, nouns, and fixed expressions.