English dictation: Sentence building

A 47-lesson course in building English sentences: start from the subject–verb skeleton and expand step by step. Follow the numbers — each lesson trains one pattern by ear.

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Everyday habits: build a sentence, then expand it

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Saying how you feel — and why

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Look, sound, feel: describing impressions

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Complete the action, then say when and where

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Give someone something: two objects

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Make it a certain way: object + complement

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Let, make, have, help: getting things done

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Present simple: habits, routines, and facts

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Past simple: finished actions

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The future with will

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Plans and intentions: be going to

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Present continuous: happening now

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Present continuous for future plans

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Past continuous: what was happening

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Present perfect: from the past until now

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Present perfect: life experiences

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Present perfect continuous: still going on

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Can: ability and permission

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Could: polite requests and suggestions

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Advice and warnings: should, had better

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Obligation: have to

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Describe a noun with a prepositional phrase

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More noun + prepositional-phrase modifiers

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Describe a noun with an -ing phrase

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Describe a noun with a past participle

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Searching for and planning things

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Noun + to-infinitive: what it's for

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Relative clauses: who and that (subject)

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Relative clauses: the one you mean (object)

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Relative adverbs: when, where, why, how

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Expand the action with prepositional phrases

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To-infinitive of purpose: saying why

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Adjective + to-infinitive; too … to

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Two actions at once with -ing

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Gerunds as the subject

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Verbs + to-infinitive: wishes and plans

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It is + adjective + to…

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It is + adjective + for someone + to…

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Wh- word + to-infinitive

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Reporting with that-clauses

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The point is that…: that-clause as complement

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It is + adjective + that…

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Wh- noun clauses: I don't know who/what…

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Wh- noun clauses with when and where

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Wh- noun clauses: how and why

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Time clauses: when, while, before, after

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Time clauses: as soon as, whenever, until, while