verb forms

The passive voice is a useful tool in business situations. Use this form if you want to sound less aggressive and more neutral. We show you how in this short exercise.

Do job interviews make you feel nervous? Are you worried that you might make grammar mistakes in your answers — or your questions? Take our test and find out if you really need to worry.

In this exercise we test your knowledge of verb forms. Do you know when to use reflexive (oneself) and reciprocal (each other) verbs? For each question, decide which verb phrase from the drop-down box is required.

How many of the English tenses could you use correctly? Would you know which verb form to use after another verb? Take just tens minutes out of your day to test your knowledge of verbs.

We look to the future in our test this time. There are many ways to talk about the future in English. How many do you know?

Perfect modal verbs! No, we're not talking about pretty-looking verbs, we're talking about more advanced verb forms, such as "could/might/should have done". Test your knowledge of them here.

We look at the past tenses in this test. For example, what would tense would you use to complete this sentence?

"I heard about the takeover of the company when I _____ overseas."