Want to improve your grammar but don’t know where to start? A 30-day challenge gives you a clear daily task, so you build a habit instead of studying randomly. You only need 20–30 minutes a day and free online resources.
This guide gives you a complete free 30-day grammar plan, with a topic for each day, a simple daily routine and ways to check your progress.
Your Daily Routine (20–30 Minutes)
- Learn (10 min): read the day’s lesson.
- Practise (10 min): do exercises online.
- Use it (5–10 min): write five sentences about your own life.
Free resources: the British Council’s LearnEnglish grammar lessons, Purdue OWL’s grammar guide and its grammar exercises.
Week 1: The Building Blocks
- Day 1: Parts of speech
- Day 2: Sentence word order (S-V-O)
- Day 3: The verb be
- Day 4: Present simple
- Day 5: Present continuous
- Day 6: Questions and negatives
- Day 7: Review and mini-test
Week 2: Past and Future
- Day 8: Past simple (regular verbs)
- Day 9: Irregular verbs
- Day 10: Past continuous
- Day 11: Present perfect
- Day 12: Present perfect vs past simple
- Day 13: Future: will and going to
- Day 14: Review and mini-test
For a full reference, keep our guide to the 12 English tenses open.
Week 3: Small Words, Big Difference
- Day 15: a, an, the
- Day 16: Countable and uncountable nouns
- Day 17: Prepositions of time
- Day 18: Prepositions of place
- Day 19: Pronouns
- Day 20: Subject-verb agreement
- Day 21: Review and mini-test
Week 4: Building Better Sentences
- Day 22: Modal verbs
- Day 23: Comparatives and superlatives
- Day 24: Conjunctions and clauses
- Day 25: First and second conditionals
- Day 26: The passive voice
- Day 27: Relative clauses
- Day 28: Punctuation basics
- Day 29: Common mistakes review
- Day 30: Final test and reflection
Check Your Progress
- Take our English grammar quiz on Day 1 and again on Day 30.
- Compare a paragraph you wrote on Day 1 with one on Day 30.
For a longer plan after the challenge, see our 8-week free online grammar course.
Final Thoughts
Thirty days of short, focused practice can make a real difference. Follow the plan, write your own sentences every day, and test yourself at the start and end to see your progress.
