Help the panicked roommate complete the emergency cooking instructions by dragging the correct words into the blanks.
For a great sandwich, always slice the bread carefully. For your own safety, please don't put the metal fork in the microwave! To finish the masterpiece, simply add a huge piece of cheese.
For a great sandwich, always slice the bread carefully.
Imperatives (commands and instructions) always use the base form of the verb, even after adverbs like "always."
For your own safety, please don't put the metal fork in the microwave!
To form a negative imperative, we use "do not" or "don't" followed by the base verb.
To finish the masterpiece, simply add a huge piece of cheese.
Once again, use the base form of the verb ("add") to give an instruction.
Imperative mood
The imperative mood is the verb form English uses to give commands, instructions, requests, invitations, and warnings: Sit down, Pass the salt, Don't touch that, Have a great trip. It uses the bare verb form, omits the subject (an implied you), and is negated with don't.
Imperatives are everywhere — recipes, instructions, warning signs, road directions, casual requests. The challenge isn't forming them but choosing them: a bare imperative often sounds rude in English, so polite contexts swap them for question forms (Could you…?) or please.
Imperative sentence
An imperative sentence tells the listener to do something — give an order, make a request, deliver an instruction, or extend an invitation. It uses the bare verb form, drops the subject (the implied you), and ends with a full stop or exclamation mark depending on intensity: Look at me. / Beat the whites until fluffy. / Stop!
It's one of the four sentence types alongside declaratives (statements), interrogatives (questions), and exclamatives (strong feeling). Recipes, instructions, road signs, and casual requests live almost entirely in the imperative.
Verb
A verb is a word that expresses an action, a state, or an occurrence — the engine of every English sentence. Most verbs have five forms: base (go), -s form (goes), past tense (went), past participle (gone), and -ing form (going). The verb be is the major exception with eight forms; modal verbs like can and must have fewer.
Verbs carry tense (when), aspect (how it unfolds), mood (the speaker's attitude), and voice (active vs passive). Mastering them is foundational — virtually every other grammar topic depends on getting verbs right.
Humor
The Humor tag marks questions and challenges where the author has tried — subjectively, deliberately — to make the practice itself entertaining. Expect characters, scenarios, and storylines that play with absurdity: zombies, alien tourists, a chef's disaster, a roommate's complaint. The grammar rule is real; the wrapping isn't.
Humor matters because grammar drills are forgettable. Tying a rule to a story your brain wants to keep makes it stick. Filter by Humor when motivation is what you're short on, not study time.
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, sitting between A1 and B1. At A2 you can handle routine exchanges — ordering food, asking directions, making small talk — and describe your immediate environment in simple sentences.
Grammatically, A2 introduces past simple and past continuous, present perfect for experiences, basic modal verbs, and the first conditional. You're also picking up collocations and learning which verbs take gerunds vs. infinitives. Knowing your level here is the difference between confident progress and frustration: A2 material consolidates the basics; B1 will overwhelm you.
Difficulty: Easy
The Easy difficulty tag marks questions and challenges aimed at beginners — typically A1 or early A2 level. Expect single-rule focus, short sentences, common everyday vocabulary, and one clear correct answer. Distractors usually rule themselves out quickly.
Filter by Easy when you're rebuilding fundamentals, warming up before harder material, or testing whether you've truly internalised a basic rule before moving on. Easy doesn't mean trivial — it means the rule itself is unambiguous and the context doesn't pile on extra complications.