Grammar repair means fixing the small habits that repeat in your own writing, one group at a time. You do not relearn everything. You find what you repeat and practise the correct version until it feels automatic.
This cluster belongs to SPM English and supports your guided writing, because the same habits decide how clear your paragraphs read.
What are the six habits?
Each one has its own lesson with a short worked example.
- Using present and past tenses consistently
- Correcting subject-verb agreement
- Using articles, countable nouns and quantifiers
- Building accurate complex sentences
- Using conditionals to express meaning
- Editing pronouns and reference chains
A seventh page, grammar choices that change meaning, covers cases where both options are grammatical but say different things. Test yourself on the grammar repair practice set.
How do the habits connect?
Tense comes first, because every verb depends on it. Agreement decides the verb form after you pick the tense. Articles and quantifiers work on the nouns, while complex sentences, conditionals and pronoun chains join the pieces together.
Fix tense and agreement first, because longer sentences are built from these parts.
One sentence, three slips
Read this original sentence: “Last week, the students was discuss the project, and then he present a idea.”
Sort the slips. “Was discuss” mixes tense and agreement: the plural subject needs “discussed” (or “were discussing”). “He present” has a pronoun that does not match “the students” and a wrong tense. “A idea” is an article slip, because “idea” starts with a vowel sound and needs “an”.
A repaired version reads: “Last week, the students discussed the project, and then one of them presented an idea.”
Who should start where?
Start with the habit that appears most in your marked work, not with lesson one. If your notes show mixed tenses, begin with lesson one. If your errors sit in articles, go to lesson three.
Fixing one habit at a time makes the next one easier. For a teacher to read your own writing and pick your starting point, see online one-to-one English tuition.