Grammar Lesson #1 - Tips to Improve Your Sentence Structure

In this lesson, you can learn the most important grammar rule in English. Of course, you need to know many things to use grammar correctly in English. However, there’s one tip that can dramatically improve your English grammar-especially in writing. You'll learn how to use this simple idea to make your English writing clearer, simpler and more accurate.
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Contents:
1. Subject + Verb 0:43
2. Using Phrases as Subjects and Verbs 6:47
3. Empty Subjects 10:14
4. Word Order 13:15
This lesson will help you:
- Understand how subjects and verbs work in sentence structure in English.
- Learn ways to use phrases as both subjects and verbs in English grammar.
- See what sentences with empty subjects are and how to use them in English sentence structure.
- See examples of correct subject-verb word order in English grammar so you can improve your sentence structure in English.
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