Building your vocabulary can give you a lot more to talk about in English. Even if your grammar is incorrect, with more words available you can discuss more subjects – and be understood even if you make mistakes! There’s really two main ways to learn vocabulary – from the words you need and use in everyday use (essential vocabulary as you need it) and by grouping new vocabulary into themes.

Vocabulary Topics

• Wedding vocabulary
• What does “honeymoon” period mean?
• Halloween Nouns
• Halloween Adjectives
• Adverbs for building atmosphere
• Names of English words for explaining grammar
• Christmas Vocabulary list
• How to name all the letters in English
• 21 Alternative verbs for movement
• How to use suffixes to create nouns from adjectives

 

Describing Language

Adjectives, adverbs, and any word that helps give a sentence more meaning. These are words that tell us more information about the nouns and verbs in a sentence. The following articles help explain these components of the English language.

• Adjectives and Adverbs: a brief guide – when to use adjectives and adverbs, with examples.
• Adjective word order – sentence placement and forming adjective lists.
• Correct use of ‘fewer’ and ‘less’ – when to use fewer and when to use less, with an exercise. Some discussion of countable and uncountable nouns.
• Prefixes: explanation and exercises
• Mixed grammar words exercise
• Spelling rules for verb tenses and participles