March fourth is National Grammar Day, one of our favorite days here at ESL Library! This year we've decided to feature some of our most popular blog posts of all time. Teachers and students find our verb posts useful for teaching tips, charts, explanations, and practice activities. We're always looking to add to our blog and our grammar lesson library, so please let us know if you'd like to see something that we haven't covered yet (a post on verbing, perhaps?). March forth, fellow grammar lovers!

The Simple Tenses

• Simple Present Vs. Present Progressive
• Simple Past Vs. Past Progressive
• 5 Fun Activities for Irregular Verbs
• Can We Ever Use “Ever” with the Simple Past?
• Simple Future: Teaching the Three Forms
• Simple Future Vs. Future Progressive

The Perfect Tenses

• 5 Easy Steps for Teaching the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Progressive
• Past Perfect Vs. Past Perfect Progressive
• Future Perfect Vs. Future Perfect Progressive

Conditionals, Causative & Subjunctive

• An Easy Way to Teach Conditionals
• Causative Verbs
• The Passive Causative
• Tips for Teaching the Subjunctive

Gerunds & Infinitives

• Gerunds and Infinitives: Helpful Teaching Tips
• Exceptions to the Noun + Infinitive Rule
• 5 Verbs with Meaning Changes: Gerunds and Infinitives – Advanced
• Why Do We Use “Looking Forward To” with a Second -ING Verb?

Phrasal Verbs & Idioms

• How Do You Teach Phrasal Verbs?
• 8 Ways to Practice Idioms in Class

Everything Else

• Teaching Mixed Tenses
• Progressive Vs. Continuous and Other Synonymous Grammatical Terms
• How to Teach “Used To” in 6 Easy Steps
• Used To, Get Used To, and Be Used To
• Subject-Verb Agreement: Non-Count Nouns That End in “S”
• Recommend, Suggest, Advise: Verbs That Have Multiple Sentence Patterns
• Look, Appear, Feel + Adjective or Adverb?
• Learned Vs. Learnt
• Say Vs. Tell and Other Speaking Verbs

Related

• We have more than 200 grammar lessons in our Grammar Practice Worksheets, Grammar Stories, Basic Grammar Sentences, Simple Sentences, True Grammar Stories, Fun Grammar Lessons, and Super Simple Grammar sections.