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Stylish learner revealing the hidden structure behind an English sentence

Blog PostJun 15, 2026

Introducing English by Algorithm: Read Any Sentence by Its Structure

Announcing English by Algorithm, a free 48-lesson series that teaches you to read any English sentence by its shape, from your first words to dense academic prose.

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English Grammar

Introducing English by Algorithm: Read Any Sentence by Its Structure

Your Roadmap: From Zero to Mastery (The Final Post)

Sounding Academic: Register, Hedging, and Cohesion

Growing Vocabulary the Smart Way: Families, Frequency, and Collocations

Making Every "it" and "they" Crystal Clear: Pronoun Reference

Building Sentences Like a Machine: Sentence Generation

When a Sentence Has Two Structures: Ambiguity

RT6: The Hidden "to" and the Hidden "that"

RT5: The Participle at the Sentence's Edge (and the Dangling Trap)

RT4: The Shrunken Clause After "if / when / although"

RT3: The Hidden "if" (Had I known...)

RT2: The Master Key to Reading Dense English

RT1: The Missing "that" Between Two Nouns

The Master Secret: How English Hides Words (and How You Restore Them)

Spotlighting One Part: Cleft and Emphasis Structures

Punctuation Is Not About Pauses — It's Structure

Comparing Things: bigger, the biggest, as tall as

Telling What Someone Said: Reported Speech

Joining Equal Pieces: Coordination, Parallelism, and Deletion

Where Do Adverbs Go? The Three Positions

Describing the Action: Adverbs and Adverbial Clauses

The Word "to" Has Two Completely Different Jobs

Finding the Seams: How to Break a Long Sentence Apart

Tag Questions: "You're coming, aren't you?"

The Subjunctive: Why We Say "that he BE present"

"If... then...": The Four Conditional Types

Modal Verbs: can, must, should, may, might (the "Force" Words)

Saying "No": How to Make Sentences Negative

How to Make Questions: The Inversion Algorithm

The -ing Puzzle: One Procedure to Sort Out Every "-ing" Word

Reading Time and Voice Off the Page: The Tense Matrix

Multi-Word Verbs: turn off, give up, look after, put up with

Two Verbs Together: -ing or "to"? (Gerund vs. Infinitive)

How Verbs Choose What Comes After Them (Verb Valency)

Reading Unknown Words: The Magic of Word Endings

When a Whole Clause Acts Like a "Thing": Nominal Structures

The M5 Zone: Full Describing Clauses (a Major Milestone)

The M4 Zone: Describing a Noun From Behind

The M3 Zone: When a Noun Describes Another Noun

The M2 Zone: Describing Words (and a Secret Connection to the Boot)

Building Bigger "Thing" Teams: The M1 Zone (the Front Words)

Subject–Verb Agreement: The Tricky Cases That Catch Everyone

Nouns and Countability: The Word That Controls the Sentence

The Boot: The Most Powerful Tool in This Whole Series

The Sentence Engine: The Few Patterns Every English Sentence Is Built On

The Structural Mindset: Training Your Eyes to See the Shape

Your First Real Sentences: Subject, Verb, Object, and Pronouns

The Letters, the Sounds, and One Small Rule That Matters for Years

Why We Learn the *Shape* of English First

Why We Learn the Shape of English First