Conjunctions, adverbs, fillers
A1
"Big", "red", and "happy" are adjectives.
"Quickly" and "very" are adverbs.
Say it again, please.
Children learn the alphabet before they start to read.
The bus has already left.
She also speaks Portuguese.
English uses the articles "a", "an", and "the".
Every sentence begins with a capital letter.
Put a comma after each item in a list.
Look up the definition of the word in a dictionary.
Slow down, we’re early.
Can you give an example of how to use this word?
An exclamation point shows strong emotion or emphasis.
Good grammar helps you communicate more clearly.
Here is my ticket.
The English alphabet has twenty-six letters.
Maybe we’ll go to the lake.
What is the meaning of the word "serendipity"?
"Dog" and "city" are nouns.
In "She reads books", "books" is the object.
We have only five minutes.
A phrase is a group of words that forms a unit.
Add "-s" to most nouns to form the plural.
"In", "on", and "at" are prepositions.
"I", "you", "he", and "they" are pronouns.
Her pronunciation improved after living abroad for a year.
A question mark comes at the end of a direct question.
A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.
"Cat" is singular; "cats" is plural.
Check your spelling before submitting your essay.
The word "beautiful" has three syllables.
Put the boxes over there.
The translation of the poem lost some of the original rhythm.
Look up at the stars.
"Run", "eat", and "be" are verbs.
The museum is very popular.
Reading widely is the best way to build your vocabulary.
How many words do you know in English?
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“The dog bit the man” is an active sentence.
An apostrophe is used in contractions and possessives.
"Do" is an auxiliary verb used to form questions and negatives.
A subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence.
Use a colon to introduce a list or a quotation.
Add "-er" to form the comparative of short adjectives.
Conjunctions like "and", "but", and "because" link clauses.
The present continuous describes an action happening right now.
A countable noun can be used with "a" and has a plural form.
Determiners such as "the", "this", and "every" come before nouns.
Use "will" to form the future tense in English.
Swimming is the gerund form of the verb "swim".
A hyphen joins two words to form a compound adjective.
The infinitive is the base form of the verb, often with "to".
"Oh!", "Wow!" and "Oops!" are interjections.
The verb "go" is irregular: its past form is "went".
Modal verbs like "can", "must", and "should" express ability or obligation.
Start a new paragraph when you introduce a new idea.
The past participle of "write" is "written".
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action.
Use the past tense to talk about completed actions.
The present perfect links the past to the present.
Add an apostrophe-s to make a noun possessive.
The present tense describes current or habitual actions.
Place quotation marks around a direct quotation.
Give me one good reason.
Regular verbs form their past tense by adding "-ed".
A semicolon links two closely related independent clauses.
“Best” is the superlative of “good”.
English has twelve main tenses.
Water is uncountable and cannot be preceded by "a".
Unfortunately, the tickets are sold out.
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"Hot" and "cold" are antonyms.
The slang terms are too colloquial for a business report.
"Sunflower" and "toothbrush" are compound words.
The second conditional is used for hypothetical situations.
The word "strength" has six consonants in a row.
In informal writing, contractions such as "can't" and "don't" are common.
The vowel sound in "coin" is a diphthong.
Discourse markers like "however" and "in addition" organize text.
An ellipsis (...) shows that words have been omitted.
The phrase "kick the bucket" is an idiom meaning to die.
Informal language is fine in emails to friends.
Rising intonation at the end of a sentence signals a question.
Calling life a journey is a common metaphor.
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language.
Try to paraphrase the idea in your own words.
English has approximately 44 phonemes but only 26 letters.
The prefix "un-" means not, as in "unhappy".
Switching register from formal to informal can sound jarring.
A relative clause gives more information about a noun.
In reported speech, tenses usually shift back in time.
The root word of "unhelpful" is "help".
The suffix "-ness" forms nouns from adjectives.
"Happy" and "joyful" are synonyms.
Syntax studies how words are combined to form sentences.
English has five vowel letters but many more vowel sounds.
English has a fixed subject-verb-object word order.
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The sentence "I saw the man with the telescope" has structural ambiguity.
Bilingual speakers engage in code-switching, shifting between languages mid-conversation.
In English, you "make" a decision but "do" homework; these are collocations.
The word "slim" has a positive connotation; "skinny" a negative one.
Haitian Creole developed from French mixed with West African languages.
The denotation of "home" is a place where one lives.
The Yorkshire dialect differs significantly from standard English.
The etymology of "salary" traces back to the Latin word for salt.
"Passed away" is a common euphemism for "died".
English has become the global lingua franca of business and science.
Morphology studies how words are formed from smaller units.
Phonology focuses on the sound systems of languages.
A pidgin is a simplified language that develops between speakers of different languages.
Pragmatics examines how context shapes the interpretation of language.
Semantics studies the meaning of words and sentences.
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She is articulate and persuasive.
"Night" and German "Nacht" are cognates.
Keep your answer concise.
I inadvertently deleted the file.
The word entered the everyday lexicon.
That is the literal meaning.
Translation often loses subtle nuance.
He quoted an obscure poet.
Phonetics studies speech sounds.
There is an angry subtext to her note.
His writing is dense and verbose.
C2 · Premium
The essay needs a coherent structure.
The essay clearly delineates each argument.
He gave an eloquent speech.
The phrase is meant in a figurative sense.
She is indubitably the best candidate.
He called, ostensibly to ask about work.
Her rhetoric swayed the audience.
The claim rests on spurious reasoning.
Silence is tantamount to agreement.
Frequently asked
131 words, each with a translation and an example sentence: A1 — 38, A2 — 32, B1 — 26, B2 — 15, C1 — 11, C2 — 9.
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