A different way to learn English grammar
Most courses hand you a long list of rules to memorise, then leave you stranded the moment a real sentence gets long. You translate every word, lose the thread, and still miss the meaning.
Today we are releasing a series built on the opposite idea. English by Algorithm is a free, 48-lesson path that teaches one skill above all others: reading a sentence by its structure. Once you can see the shape, the meaning tends to arrive on its own.
The whole series is live now on the Lessons page, ready to read in order.
What "by algorithm" really means
An algorithm is just a reliable set of steps. English, it turns out, is far more regular than it looks. The same patterns repeat in every sentence you will ever read, even when the words are unfamiliar.
So instead of memorising feelings for each tense or guessing at long sentences, you learn a small toolkit of repeatable moves:
- Find the main thing and the main action first.
- Recognise the handful of core patterns every sentence is built from.
- Use one simple test, the Boot, to tell a real verb from a look-alike.
- Restore the words that dense English quietly deletes.
That last skill is where most learners get stuck, and it is where this series goes furthest.
From your first sentence to dense academic prose
The path is built as a staircase. Each lesson rests on the one before it, so you never have to jump.
- Foundations. Letters and sounds, your first real sentences, and the habit of seeing structure before meaning.
- The noun and verb systems. How nouns control a sentence, how verbs decide what follows them, and how to read tense and voice straight off the page.
- Long sentences. Finding the seams that break a thirty-word sentence into calm, readable chunks.
- The master section: reductions. English hides words to stay compact. The series teaches all six reduction transformations, including the one reduction that dominates academic and technical writing.
- Synthesis and mastery. Ambiguity, building your own sentences, vocabulary, academic register, and a closing roadmap from zero to mastery.
By the end, the kind of sentence that once looked like a wall of words becomes a machine with parts you recognise.
Start reading today
Pick the entry point that fits you:
- New to the method? Begin with Why We Learn the Shape of English First.
- Want the full map before you commit? Skim the roadmap and study program.
- Prefer to browse? Open the Lessons page and start anywhere.
Every lesson is free, explains each term it uses, and links straight to the next step. Read slowly, follow the steps, and let the structure do the heavy lifting.
Welcome to English by Algorithm.