Everyday English Sentences
Build confidence in basic English by mastering the foundational sentence structures used in daily conversation. Learn how to state ideas clearly, ask questions, sound polite, and link your thoughts smoothly.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday English Sentences. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Building Your First Statements and Handling Real Conversations. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday English Sentences
- English relies on a strict Subject-Verb-Object sequence to show who acts and who receives the action
- Changing the position of nouns flips the meaning of the sentence entirely
- English words usually do not change their form to show whether they are the subject or the object
- English sentences require a subject in almost all standard statements, even when there is no actor
- Words like 'it' or 'there' act as placeholder subjects for weather, time, and existence (e.g., 'It is raining')
- Dropping the dummy subject makes the sentence grammatically incomplete in English
- The simple present tense expresses recurring habits, routines, and unchanging facts
- The present continuous ('be' + '-ing') marks an activity currently in progress right now
- Using the simple present for an action happening this second sounds unnatural in English
- The core unit in English keeps the subject and verb closely linked (e.g., 'We played soccer')
- Specific details answering 'where' and 'when' naturally come after the main action
- Placing time or place details between the verb and its object breaks standard English flow
- In English, normal action verbs need the helper verb 'do' or 'does' placed before the subject to make a yes-or-no question
- The main verb stays in its base form after the helper verb moves to the front
- English does not simply invert the main action verb and the subject (unlike 'Drink you coffee?')
- Question words (Wh- words) stand at the very beginning of an English sentence to signal what specific detail is being requested
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Tomo gives Everyday English Sentences the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Picture this: a playful dog spots a sleeping cat. Which sentence tells the story of the dog doing the chasing?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Everyday English Sentences takes you
- 1
Building Your First Statements
- The Core Sentence Blueprint
- Asking Questions and Responding
- 2
Handling Real Conversations
- Sounding Natural and Polite
- Connecting Thoughts Together
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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